— The number of million-dollar Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected vehicles the Marines bought to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They only need 1,200 of them now. "It is a rather unique vehicle and it does have some limitations on it," Marine Lieut. General Richard Mills told a Senate Armed Services Committee panel Tuesday. What happens to the other 2,800? "We're still working through the details of how to best retire the vehicles that aren't going to be put back into service," said Sean Stackley, the Navy's chief weapons buyer.
We’ve known for a long time that the cost of college education has gone through the roof. But who’d have thunk it’s affecting elementary schools as well?
It’s a safe bet there are no bargains to be found when the federal
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Screams of delight greeted the royal as he arrived with British Prime Minister David Cameron aboard a spanking new red double-decker bus to attend a reception highlighting their nation’s strengths in technology, innovation and design.
With a UH-60 Black Hawk hovering just above, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter visits U.S. troops in Afghanistan May 13.
The first rebound in home prices was lackluster and after only a year was followed by another dip. But the recent upturn in home prices looks like the real thing.
A roadside bomb killed three U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. You can always count on death, as Ben Franklin ruefully noted. And in Afghanistan, it seems, you can always count on taxes. Being screwed up. Big …
— Defense Stegosaurus Chuck Hagel, speaking to Defense Department employees Tuesday about his lack of social-media savvy, as he tells them they will be forced to take up to 11 unpaid furlough days over the summer because of sequester-mandated budget cuts.
Concerning the perennial favorite – possible military-base closings – check out this exchange from a May 9 Senate hearing:
Senator Mark Begich, D-Alaska: I can tell you in Fairbanks, Alaska, where Eielson [Air Force Base] …
Choosing to use investigative tools Justice has resisted in the past, investigators not only went with the subpoena, they did it without notifying the AP.
One month ago today two pressure cooker bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 people. The lives and limbs lost are the most tragic illustration of the toll, but other numbers …
Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy was a difficult choice that may not be right for most women who live in fear of developing breast cancer
