…according to John Wendle of Time:
“…as the sun began to set and temperatures again dropped below freezing, fears of more extreme violence and chaos have proven unfounded. Death tolls ranged from four to 12 across the …
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Guess That Settles That…
Ground Breaking
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This Is Progress? Vlad “Boom-Boom” Putin Echos U.S. Defense Platitudes
Our goal should be to build a fully professional army. Servicemen must have a full package of social benefits adequate to their enormous social responsibility. It’s clear there have been plenty of discussions over the amount and
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Afghan “Night Raids”: Doing More Harm Than Good?
It seems every big U.S. military mission – from launching a war to killing Osama bin Laden – happens under the cover of darkness. “We own the night,” is a catchphrase often used by the U.S. military. Night-vision goggles …
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Navy Seeking More Minority SEALs
“This is a president who is shrinking our Navy, shrinking our Air Force, wants to shrink our active-duty personnel by 50-to-100,000, is cutting our military budget by roughly a trillion dollars…The right course is to add ships to our Navy, to modernize and add aircraft to our Air Force, to add 100,000 troops to our active-duty personnel and to strengthen America's military.”
“I don't want even the men to be over there.”
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Flying Blind: Defog of War
Surely you’ve been driving down the street when, though no fault of your own, your windshield fogs up and you suddenly find yourself driving blind. Now imagine you’re flying an F-16 on the verge of landing amid an air show crowd – not to mention lots of vintage airplanes – when your canopy cockpit fogs up.
That’s precisely …
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Bus Station for Afghanistan: Coming and Going…Now Going, For Good
The Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan has been the Greyhound Bus terminal for U.S. troops flowing in and out of Afghanistan for the past decade. But that’s coming to an end in two years. Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev told …
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PTSD…And Cash
The Army removed Colonel Dallas Homas, commander of Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state, on Tuesday from his post because of an investigation into whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses were reversed …
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Number of Vets in Congress Is Shrinking…
…but it remains much higher than the percentage of military veterans in the general population.
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They Don’t Seem to Get Better…
That might be one conclusion to be drawn from this wrenching chart in a new Congressional Budget Office report on how the Department of Veterans Affairs is handling wounded troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The chart shows that nearly all the troops afflicted with both ailments remain …
