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Body fragments found at U.S. plane crash site in Kyrgyzstan
MOSCOW -- Rescue teams found remains of two crew members Saturday morning at the site of a U.S. military plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, an official said. “Fragments of two bodies have already been found as we are continuing the search,”...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Central Asia, Air and Space Accidents, Afghanistan, Transportation Accidents
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Business briefs - May 26
Chambersburg Hospital CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Chambersburg Hospital was awarded American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Bronze Award for excellence in stroke care at an April 25 ceremony. According to Steve Dentel of the...Tags: Physical Conditions, Otolaryngology, Hospitals and Clinics, West Virginia University, Career and Workplace
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Learning to be an officer
Naomi Fuhrman's view on leadership in the military is clear. "As a female officer, I can't try to lead like a man. Because that won't work. So just figuring how to lead men as a woman and how to be myself," she said. An Aberdeen native, Furhman...
Tags: West Point, Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology
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Drone program had largely run its course
WASHINGTON — President Obama took pains to place the new restrictions on targeted killings he announced Thursday into the context of a broad reappraisal of the nation's anti-terrorism effort. Drones are not "a cure-all for terrorism," he said in...Tags: Pakistan, Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations, George W. Bush, National Security
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Pakistan, Wars and Interventions, Kabul (Afghanistan), Taliban, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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SPECIAL REPORT: 'Expendable veterans' - the life of service dogs in Vietnam
In 1970, 173rd Airborne dog handler Johnny Mayo lost his first service dog, Tiger, when he tripped a Vietnamese booby trap. His second dog, Kelly, remained by his side until his tour was over. Kelly was put down instead of getting to go home with his...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama urges new officers to 'carry forth' academy's values
President Barack Obama told Naval Academy graduates Friday that declining faith in government and other institutions makes it more important than ever that they retain their moral center as they embark on military careers. As a cold rain fell on the 1,...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Assault, U.S. Department of Defense, Memorial Stadium, Sexual Assault
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Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war
WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...Tags: Pakistan, Religious Conflicts, War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Armed Conflicts, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, BBC, Justice and Rights
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Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no...
Tags: West Point, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), U.S. Department of Defense
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Taliban attack international aid group in Afghanistan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group’s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&...
Tags: Pakistan, Wars and Interventions, Suicide, Kabul (Afghanistan), Taliban
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Obama to address Naval Academy commencement
President Barack Obama will travel to Annapolis to speak at the Naval Academy commencement today, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit. It is the second time...Tags: Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, White House, Annapolis, Budget Control Act of 2011
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