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Disappearing Into Thin Air
Thursday’s budget details contained several sky-high decisions worth noting:
— New unmanned aircraft aren’t necessarily cheaper and/or better than old – and Battleland means very old – manned aircraft. (Interesting how the military seems to be able to go back to the future with reconnaissance aircraft, but not fighters or …
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A Heroine…Of a Different Kind
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“We are sad to report that Lt. Cmdr. Regina Mills, Nimitz‘ Handler, died Jan. 23 following a multi-vehicle accident on State Route 16 in Kitsap County, Wash….Regina was a great leader and officer. She was a leader and mentor not only to the Sailors and officers in the Air …
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Hunting for Our MIAs
A few weeks ago I wrote about the last American service member killed as the U.S. pulled its final troops out of Iraq. Since then, I’ve been haunted by one fact that is sadly overlooked by the media (and even by the Commander in Chief in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night): U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ahmed Kousay Altaie, …
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Tick, Tick, Tick: Another Absurd Headline
I wrote recently about the press reporting on veteran-committed crimes as a trend of veteran/psychopaths returned from the war. CNN and the Christian Science Monitor were guilty last week. Now it’s USA Today’s turn. According to the bonehead editor who came up with this sensationalist headline, returned veterans are ticking …
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The Lego Leatherneck
Sure it’s a coincidence — the Marines aren’t suggesting that their world-champion Lego builder has anything to do with the latest budget cuts detailed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta turning the corps into a toy military force.
But make no mistake: the Marines are proud of Captain Kyle Ugone’s declaration from the …
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The Promise — and The Danger — in Panetta’s Budget
Leon Panetta rolled out some of the first details on the new FY 2013 defense budget on Thursday. It’s the first since FY 1998 to actually decline in nominal terms (though FY 2011 and FY 2012 were “real” cuts, as they did not …
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The Defense Budget: “You Used to Be Big”
Shortly after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s penciled in some details on how he plans to cut $487 billion from the Pentagon budget over the coming decade (yielding a 6.8% increase in dollars spent between 2013 and 2017; a 1.6% cut when inflation is included) you’d have thunk he was a dentist practicing without Novocain.
Yet that …
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Navy Must Feel the Cuts Are Peachy
You’ll note in Thursday night’s Pentagon-issued public-events sked for Friday (click on it to enlarge), both the Air Force and Army have scheduled briefings for the press on the latest round of planned budget cuts. It’s a safe bet both will declare the planned cuts to their spending plans will be tough, but do-able. The Navy — …
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Defense-Budget Primer…For Normal Folks
The debate over defense spending will light its afterburner Thursday afternoon, when SecDef Leon Panetta and Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, invite us into the Pentagon kitchen and show us how they plan …
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“Obama’s Selective Sanctimony”
Former TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin, long one of the nation’s top torture-trackers, weighs in on the Obama Administration’s attitude toward torture – and doesn’t like what he sees:
Torture! The Obama Administration is
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“How You Like That Pay, Soldier?”
Troops get paid in lots of different ways. There’s basic pay, allowances, bonuses, incentives and assorted housing, health and retirement bennies. Is this the best way to compensate U.S. military personnel? In other words, are …
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Homeless Female Vets on the Rise
The Department of Veterans Affairs has made stamping out homelessness among the nation’s veterans a top priority. According to this new Government Accountability Office report, it has its work cut out for it (despite some recent good news). “Limited VA data show that the number of women veterans the agency identified as homeless …