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Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle. Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past...
Tags: Business, Republican Party, Lima (Peru), Sales, U.S. Department of Defense
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BRIEF: Pelosi will be UCD law school's commencement speaker May 17
The Sacramento BeeHouse of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi will deliver the commencement address at UC Davis School of Law's graduation ceremony next month. The San Francisco Democrat will address 2013 law school graduates at 4 p.m. May 17 at Mondavi...Tags: Graduation, U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, University of California, Davis, Jerry Brown
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LETTER: Benghazi Shows Panetta Lacks Faith In American Spirit
After the U.S. failed to attempt a rescue of the ambassador and several U.S. citizens at Benghazi, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta explained that the government's inaction was due to not knowing the conditions and the possible hazards involved. Obviously...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Benghazi
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Surprise arrival by sailor dads brings joy to kids
Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wash.By now it's a familiar event in military communities: A soldier or sailor comes home earlier than children expect, and the excitement those kids display on seeing Mom or Dad warms every heart. As familiar as it might be, it hasn't lost its charm,... -
Local vets happy with 'drone medal' decision
Springfield News-Sun, OhioIt was never about the medal, local veterans say. It was where the Pentagon wanted to rank the ill-fated Distinguished Warfare Medal in the military's hallowed order of precedence that outraged those veterans whose medals are a reminder that they were...Tags: Human Interest, Military Equipment, Nintendo Company Ltd., U.S. Department of Defense, Awards and Prizes
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Step toward possible military intervention in Syria
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals...
Tags: Abdullah II of Jordan, Rebellions, Biological and Chemical Weapons, United Nations, U.S. Department of Defense
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Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military's health care system. Despite dire warnings from three...
Tags: Employees, TRICARE, Defense, Government Health Care, U.S. Congress
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Medal of Honor goes to Korean War chaplain
WASHINGTON — When men who served in the Korean War with Emil Kapaun describe him, they do not talk about the acts most commonly associated with the Medal of Honor: He fell on no grenades, captured no enemy machine guns, killed no enemy soldiers....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Pilsen, Christianity, Pat Roberts, U.S. Congress
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Rachel Marsden: Pentagon keyboard jockeys can now out-decorate combat heroes
American VoicesPARIS -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week that the Pentagon has created a new military award for keyboard cyber-warriors and drone joystick jockeys. The Distinguished Warfare Medal will recognize those whose ability to incinerate a...Tags: Heroism, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Military Equipment, Rachel Marsden, Defense
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McManus: A team of rivals on Syria
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E....
Tags: White House, Defense, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Martin Dempsey
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Gen. John Allen turns down NATO post, set to retire
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — Gen. John Allen, who was top commander in Afghanistan until Feb. 10, announced Tuesday that he is retiring from the Marine Corps due to his wife’s chronic illness, turning down a White House offer to nominate him to be the supreme...Tags: White House, Paula Broadwell, U.S. Department of Defense, NATO, U.S. Military
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Avoiding the sequester isn't rocket science
Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree: It would be a disaster if the "sequester," with its more than $1 trillion of cuts to defense and domestic spending, takes effect March 1, as scheduled. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the reductions to...Tags: Medical Research, Fiscal Cliff, Petroleum Industry, Republican Party, White House
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 19, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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