+75%
— The increased chance, detailed here, that a U.S. military veteran of Afghanistan or Iraq will die in a motor-vehicle accident compared to a civilian.
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‘Stand and Fight’: Scenes from the NRA’s Annual Meeting
The nationwide battle over gun control rages on, but from May 3-5, about 70,000 members of the National Rifle Association crowded around 550 vendors for its annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston.
Bay Area Limo Fire: Details Emerge in Nurse’s Bridal Party Tragedy
A limousine turned into a deathtrap for a group of nurses celebrating a bridal shower, leaving the driver haunted about what more he could have done to save his passengers
“We're replacing a $50,000 jeep with $250,000 vehicles. We're replacing $1 million vehicles with $15 million vehicles. We're replacing $20 million helicopters with $120 million helicopters…we're on the wrong side of the cost-imposing strategy.”
— Frank Hoffman of National Defense University on the future of ground warfare at a Center for Strategic and International Studies conference May 1.
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Australia Chooses Sides — And It’s Not With China
Attacks Like the Boston Bombing Are Nearly Unpreventable
When Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev decided to build the bombs that ultimately killed three and injured hundreds at the Boston Marathon, they had to do little more than a quick Google search and a shopping run
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Mom’s Away…
Call us old-fashioned, but there’s something especially bitter about losing a young mother in a military tragedy like last Friday’s KC-135 Stratotanker crash in Kyrgyzstan.
Air Force Captain Victoria “Tori” …
Obama to Ohio State Graduates: Participate, Persevere (Transcript)
Class of 2013, your path to this moment has wound you through years of breathtaking change. You were born as freedom forced its way through a wall in Berlin, tore down an Iron Curtain across Europe.
11,000
— The share of the 66,000 members of U.S. Special Forces Command overseas on any given day, scattered across 78 nations.
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Vroom Service
The future of aviation just flashed by at an eye-watering 3,000 miles an hour.
That’s Mach 5.1, for you space travelers. It was the longest air-breathing hypersonic – five times faster than sound, or Mach 5 — flight …
Leavin’ Home…
Two F-18 Super Hornets over the carrier USS John C. Stennis, somewhere in the Pacific, April 24.
Storming the Beach: Semper Fi, Dude
The last time the Marines fought over a beach was in 1950, at Inchon, Korea. Their victory there turned the tide in the Korean war. Now they’re battling surfers for a piece of the southern California coast. This time, they fear …