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June 20, 2013

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  • VIDEO: US military challenged on sexual assaults

    06/04/13 04:00 PM

    Congress weighing changes on how to process sexual assault cases in the military.

  • Prosecutor: Manning let secrets into enemy hands

    By DAVID DISHNEAU PAULINE JELINEK | 06/03/13 06:25 PM

    FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Pfc. Bradley Manning put U.S. military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, prosecutors said Monday as the Army intelligence analyst went on trial over the biggest leak of classified material in American history. Manning's lawyers countered by arguing that...

  • Fort Hood victim upset suspect can question him

    By ANGELA K. BROWN | 06/03/13 06:25 PM

    FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- A soldier shot seven times in the 2009 Fort Hood rampage says he's upset that the Army psychiatrist charged in the attack will represent himself at trial and get to question all the wounded soldiers. Retired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford said Monday that he expects Maj....

  • Fragmented medical care contracting costs DOD $1b annually

    By Kelly Cohen | 05/31/13 04:55 PM

    Lacking a streamline way to hire private health care providors cost the Department of Defense over $1 billion, according to a recent General Accountability Office report. Despite using "fixed-price contracts and competition" to try and keep health care prices prices low, the "largely...

  • If your brother or uncle runs the House Armed Services Committee, why not be a defense lobbyist?

    By Timothy P. Carney | 05/30/13 01:30 PM

    If your brother or uncle runs the House Armed Services Committee, why not be a defense lobbyist? That seems to be the thinking of the family of Chairman Buck McKeon, a California Republican. Politico reports: Buck McKeon’s family is getting into the defense lobbying game. A firm run by the...

  • Americans gather to honor fallen service members

    By BILL BARROW | 05/27/13 08:55 PM

    ATLANTA (AP) -- Americans gathered at memorials, museums and monuments and the president laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day, as combat in Afghanistan approaches 12 years and the ranks of World War II veterans dwindle. "Let us not forget...

  • As we thank those who died for our freedom, let's remember our living heroes, too

    By Harry Croft and sydney Savion | 05/27/13 09:15 AM

    On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, it is also a time to remember those who served and are still living. The military members and veterans with physical wounds are easy to spot, but those with the "invisible war wounds" of...

  • Chuck Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

    By LOLITA C. BALDOR MICHAEL HILL | 05/25/13 08:50 PM

    WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates,...

  • Obama will push Gitmo closure despite Pentagon's renovation plans

    By Brian Hughes | 05/22/13 05:35 PM

    President Obama on Thursday will again call for the closure of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even as his Pentagon asks Congress for $450 million more to keep the facility open, stoking doubts about whether the president will live up to a glaringly unfulfilled campaign promise. With...

  • Aid worker retells SEAL Team rescue

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 05/21/13 05:10 PM

    Humanitarian aid workers Jessica Buchanan and Erik Landemalm will discuss their book, "Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six," on Wednesday at the National Press Club. Buchanan was held in captivity for 93 days starting in 2011 by pirates...


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