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Navy reducing flight hours due to budget cuts
— Budget cuts will force the Navy to scale back flying hours for some of its East Coast-based pilots, sacrificing a degree of readiness in order to save money. Naval Air Force Atlantic will "probably" reduce flying hours for pilots in two...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Human Mishaps, Career and Workplace
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Air Force sex-assault chief arrested on sexual battery charges
This post has been updated, as indicated below.The man leading a U.S. Air Force program responsible for preventing sexual assault has been arrested on suspicion of drunkenly groping a woman in an Arlington, Va., parking lot, officials said Monday. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41 -- shown with several...Tags: Sex Crimes, Assault, Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Assault, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Rebellions, Barack Obama, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Lindsey O. Graham, John McCain
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Schiff presses for transfer of military aircraft to Forest Service for firefighting help
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and nearly a dozen other members of Congress this week asked for an update from the Department of Defense on sending surplus military aircraft to the U.S. Forest Service, aircraft that could assist in fighting wildfires....
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, National Defense Authorization Act, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Aerospace Manufacturing
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U.S. Suspects Israeli Airstrike Inside Syria
The U.S. government believes Israel has conducted an airstrike inside Syria, two unnamed officials were reported as saying late Friday. U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies suspect that Israeli aircraft probably struck targets Thursday or...Tags: CNN (tv network), Religious Conflicts, Barack Obama, Michel Suleiman, Religion and Belief
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Pentagon: Expect decision on furloughs 'soon'
At one time, the Defense Department expected to furlough its civilian employees 22 days. Now the estimate is 14. When will the news be official? Soon. That was the word Wednesday from Pentagon press secretary George Little during a briefing with...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Employees, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace
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There goes Iraq -- again, or: Depart in haste, repent at leisure
Paul GreenbergThis week's news from Iraq isn't good, though when has it ever been? Well, maybe at those exceptional times when Washington was paying close attention and American troops were being given the support and leeway to do their job right. Indeed,...Tags: Barack Obama, Iraq, Culture, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Navy
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CIA buys trouble in Afghanistan
In a time when the whetted and arbitrary deficit-reduction knife is cutting bone out of critical U.S. government programs, the image of shopping bags stuffed with CIA cash handed off on a monthly basis to Afghan President Hamid Karzai — who reigns...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hamid Karzai, Police Investigations, Military Equipment, Politics
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COLUMN - Obama can close Guantanamo
Reuters(Daphne Eviatar is a Reuters columnist but her opinions are her own.) By Daphne Eviatar May 1 (Reuters) - At his news conference on Tuesday, President Barack Obama for the first time in years spoke about the controversial detention center at...Tags: Yemen, Prisons, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, National Security
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LETTER: Leave Syria To The U.N.
I believe the United States, where I was born and grew up, has become very sick and suffers from an inflated ego. I am currently thanking God for the sensibility of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for his words of caution concerning reacting to...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Wars and Interventions
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AMA opposes forced feedings at Guantanamo
Miami HeraldThe American Medical Association has written a letter to the Pentagon stating that "force feeding of detainees violates core ethical values of the medical profession." The Miami Herald on Tuesday obtained a copy of the April 25 letter to Defense...Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Nursing, Prisons, Health Organizations, The Miami Herald
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Judges sue Social Security over 'quotas' on disability decisions
Administrative law judges who evaluate disability claims for the Social Security Administration want a federal court to ease a workload that they say makes errors more likely — the latest in a series of challenges confronting the Woodlawn-based...
Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Laws, U.S. Senate, Social Security
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