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Pentagon downplays prospects of cancelling F-35, bomber 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1910
Military considers cutting 25% of Army personnel, Marines to trim budget for sequester 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 6 3080
WWII Photo Reconnaissance Pilot Reacts to Footage of Himself from 1944 4 progressoid Jul 2013 Jul 2013 7 3011
The Costly Failure of Missile Defense 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1889
WTF??? Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified 24 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 52 7271
Design As We Go Fails (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2579
Italy Begins F-35 Assembly; Dutch Store Their First Two Jets 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2437
Marines Will Sacrifice Everything But ACV & Readiness To Sequester; Marine Personnel Carrier Dropped 5 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 1 3032
Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2695
Veterans Kept as Guinea Pigs to Get Some Relief 3 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 17 3599
Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1856
Afghanistan Reconstruction: U.S. Soldiers At Risk Because Of Private Contractors' Fraud, SIGAR Warns 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2047
4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2780
Report questions costs of mansions for the military's top brass 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2054
Gen. Hayden’s Glass House 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1862
Makers of Agent Orange followed formula dictated by U.S. government (Dow & Monsanto) 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 10 1852
As parents die, Vietnamese worry who’ll care for Agent Orange disabled 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 4 1772
FAA tells Colorado residents not to shoot at drones or risk fines, jail 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 3 2651
US Drone Operator says, ‘I became a sociopath’, regrets 1626 Killings (Lest we forget) 12 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 26 4090
Colorado Town Poised to be First to Issue Drone Hunting License 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2535
Navy carrier drone program to cost billions 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2562
Army relieves Fort Jackson general of command 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2403
Suicide among US veterans 22 per day, 3 times national rate: Report 2 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2569
XO of riverine squadron fired after 2 boats grounded 0 tinymontgomery Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1776
Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc 43 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 114 12772
Somebody's Getting Ripped Off 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2115
Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector 0 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1791
Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2609
Will the Pentagon Talk to the VA? 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1925
Obama's 'zero option' on AfPak is viable 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1784

Veterans Continued...

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HII Awarded $745 Million Contract to Inactivate USS Enterprise 6 Angleae Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 3379
Troops allegedly misled by car loan program to get refunds 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2043
Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1917
Pentagon propaganda efforts continue 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2268
Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Says 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2259
Watchdog warns of waste in Afghan aircraft buy 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1809
Kyrgyzstan ends US lease of Manas airbase 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1886
AEI & Heritage Target Rebuilding GOP Views On ‘Common Defense’ 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2132
Foreign Arms Sales, Sequestration And The Future of Aerospace Companies 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1977
DoD Aviation Plan Ignores Sequestration; Rep. Forbes Warily Watches F-18, F-35 Balance 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2394
Abu Ghraib case against CACI dismissed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1759
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers file motions at court-martial claiming unlawful command influe 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2302
Diplomats, defence officials posted abroad told to call scathing F-35 report a ‘bureaucratic’ issue, 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1831
Vt. F-35 opponents demonstrate noise 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1792
Italian minister defends F-35 jet purchase on eve of tense vote 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2315
Pakistan Premier Says Former Military Ruler Will Be Charged With Treason 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2107
In Debate Over Military Sexual Assault, Men Are Overlooked Victims 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2250
In Yemen, Most Al Qaeda can be Captured, but Killing is Easier 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2322
JP Morgan’s Man in the White House 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1827
Obama’s New Syria Strategy is Nixon’s Vietnam Negotiation Tactics Redux (Meyer) 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2353
Anti-Drone Activists Stopped at U.S. Canadian Border due to "Orders of Protection" given to Commande 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2418
Air Force officer charged with rape and child molestation 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 3832
Barack Obama's Africa Trip Misses Military Mission Creep on Continent 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1891
F-35 costs kick up more controversy outside U.S. 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2519
Taliban spokesman: Removal of sign threatens talks 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1822
BAE Pushes Its T-X Bird At Paris Show; Gen. Welsh Tells DC ‘We’re On Track’ 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2184
Boeing Told to Repay After Charging $2,286 for $10 Part 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2143
Sen. Sessions: GOP Distrusts Obama, But We Might Backload Sequester 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2164
Top Official Admits F-35 Stealth Fighter Secrets Stolen 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2245
Stars of 2013 Paris Air Show: Russian Su-35; European Neuron UAV: NO Americans 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2452

Veterans Continued...

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F-22 program produces few planes, soaring costs 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2222
Scrapping equipment ($7 billion worth) key to Afghan drawdown 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2319
Boy’s death highlights anger some Yemenis feel over U.S. drone strikes 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1903
U.S. Afghanistan auditor tells of free-for-all as subcontractors demand money they’re owed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1985
No Lack of Weapons in Syria 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2212
THE TERROR DIASPORA: US spreads blowback nightmare 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1941
Three U.S. Naval Academy football players charged with raping unconscious woman 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2214
Democrats want to restore records of servicemembers discharged for being LGBT 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1907
When Drones Guard the Pipeline: The Militarization of Our Fossil Fuels 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1665
US-Taliban talks set to begin 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1703
Inspired by prayer, Virginia politician starts errant bedsheet drive for troops in Afghanistan 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1987
Get Out: Australia's Army Chief Is Evidently Not Cool With Sexual Assault 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2006
The Pentagon’s Preparations for War Against Us 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2307
Veterans' personal data from Fayetteville VA hospital found in recycling bin 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1890
How broke does the U.S. have to be to cut military spending? 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2708
Guantanamo hearing spirals into notebook safety debate 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1792
Australian military embroiled in fresh sexual harassment scandal 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2461
U.S. to keep military forces in Jordan: official 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1882
U.S. to provide ‘direct military support’ to Syrian rebels 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1877
There Are 108,000 Private Contractors in Afghanistan and the Pentagon Has No Idea What They're Doing 9 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2986
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