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Black Hawk helicopter flies itself over mountain range in test
In the blue skies above the Diablo Range, just east of San Jose, a Black Hawk helicopter flew a two-hour test mission controlled entirely by a computer -- without a pilot’s hand. There were pilots aboard the aircraft, but all maneuvers during...
Tags: Military Equipment, Science and Technology, Armed Forces, Mountains, Landforms
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Assad's last stand
Syria's 20-month-long civil war appears to be approaching a tipping point as fighting around Damascus intensifies amid signs that President Bashar Assad's grip on power may be weakening. As the final phase in the long conflict apparently draws nearer, the...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, The New York Times, U.S. Department of State, Biological and Chemical Weapons, United Nations
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Marine brig officials grilled about Bradley Manning's jailing
former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a psychiatrist determined that wasn't necessary, as lawyers for the soldier at the center of the WikiLeaks case...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Trials, Defendants, Court Preliminary, Psychiatrists
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Heat's Miller among Hall of Fame inductees
S.D. Prep Basketball Hall of FameA reigning NBA champion, Miami Heat veteran Mike Miller, is among 16 stalwarts who will be inducted into the South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame during next year’s banquet in Madison. Â Miller helped Mitchell High School to two State...Tags: NBA Draft, High Schools, Edgartown (Dukes, Massachusetts), Chad, Schools
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Religious tradition continues for 56th year in Danville
WDBJ7 ReporterIt takes months to prepare and dozens of volunteers to decorate just one tree in Danville. This week church members at Ascension Lutheran Church are hanging white and gold ornaments on their Chrismons tree. A Chrismons tree is different from a...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christmas
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Defending the world, bankrupting ourselves
The argument for leaving 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is more or less reasonable on its face. The Kabul government is fragile; our gains might be reversed; the Afghan military is not ready to stand on its own. Here's the unreasonable,...
Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), North Korea, International Military Interventions, Armed Forces, NATO
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Roger Ailes uses 'fair and balanced' Fox for a political pitch
Just a little more than a week ago, military affairs journalist Tom Ricks outraged the right-wing faithful by saying that Fox News Channel obsessed on the terrorist attack on Benghazi, Libya, in part because the station “was operating as a wing of...
Tags: Sarah Palin, David Petraeus, Mitt Romney, Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Anchorage-Based Military Unit Receives New Commander
Channel 2 NewsArmy Col. Matt McFarlane took over Wednesday as the new commander of the Anchorage-based 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in a ceremony held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. McFarlane has served in the Army since 1992. most recently...Tags: Armed Forces, Afghanistan
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Manning held improperly in brig, Marine official testifies
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines'...
Tags: Punishment, Health and Medical Professionals, United Nations, Armed Forces, Judges
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Sequestration cuts would embolden Iran to build the bomb
While many have persuasively argued that the fiscal cliff defense cuts would hurt innovation and slow our economic recovery, few offer concrete examples of how these catastrophic cuts would endanger our national security. Iran's drive to acquire nuclear...Tags: Missile Systems, Military Equipment, Barack Obama, Defense, Iran
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Edward Kennedy, Jr., John McCain
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Iran Claims Seizure of U.S. Drone Over Persian Gulf
CNNTehran, Iran-- Iran's navy has captured what it says is a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf. However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because the official was not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN...Tags: U.S. Navy, Military Equipment, Iran, CNN (tv network), U.S. Military
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