Brewers team up on beer to help military families
Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats.
- May. 24, 2013
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Obama lauds future leaders at USNA graduation
While the hats being tossed were round instead of square and no one shuffled a tassel from right to left, the Naval Academy’s Class of 2013 had one thing in common with college grads across the country: excitement — and a few nerves — about what comes next.
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Senators: Limit recruits' athletic shoe choices to U.S.-made footwear
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Troops offered deals for Memorial Day
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Bill would require mental health checkup every 6 months for deployed troops
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DoD school director to retire in August
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Lawmakers want DoD to study whether Tricare may cover horse therapy
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Tricare approves waivers for beneficiaries in tornado-affected Oklahoma
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Marine's Silver Star, Purple Heart found at Goodwill store
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Bush hosts bike ride for combat veterans
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Corps-wide mismatched uniform problem frustrates Marines
Marines continue to struggle to find matching blouses and trousers at Marine Corps Exchanges. The problem, which primarily affects desert Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniforms, has led some Marines to visit several exchanges, hoping to find a match.
- May. 23, 2013
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Panel rejects Pentagon's request for base closings
A new round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress.
- May. 23, 2013
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Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
President Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S.
- May. 23, 2013
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Lawmakers make pre-Memorial Day calls to fix vet claims backlog
In a pre-Memorial Day push to show their concern about the backlog of veterans' disability claims, House Republicans are calling for an independent task force to recommend a solution while House Democrats pushed the idea of providing temporary benefits to
- May. 23, 2013
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Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records
The Defense Department is abandoning its plans to build a single, joint electronic health record system with the Veterans Affairs Department in favor of developing its own system using commercial software.
- May. 23, 2013
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Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
President Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security.
- May. 23, 2013
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Battleground soil given place of honor in Atlanta
It seemed like a mission impossible, but Richard A. Lester believed it could be done.
- May. 23, 2013
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Woman gets prison in baby's shaking death at Quantico
A Quantico woman was sentenced Thursday to 8 ˝ years in prison, far less than what was sought by prosecutors, for fatally shaking and fracturing the skull of a 9-month-old girl who had been left in her care.
- May. 23, 2013
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New groin protector 'eats' bulletsA former Marine has devised a protective cup capable of repelling direct bullet strikes from 9mm and .357 magnum pistol rounds.
- May. 23, 2013
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Surplus military trucks get new lives
They've served their country well. Getting parked in a nondescript dirt lot sure doesn't seem like much of a final resting place.
- May. 23, 2013
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.
- May. 23, 2013
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Soldier was target of brutal attack in London
The British government's emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital.
- May. 23, 2013
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Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.
- May. 23, 2013
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4 leg exercises with little or no equipment
You really can do leg exercises without the isolation-style or massive leg press machines found in most gyms. No more leg extension or leg curl machines. No need to find a leg abductor/adductor combo or hoist a 45-pound Olympic bar.
- May. 22, 2013
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Retired commandant's son handled dead insurgents after urination incident: NCIS documents
The son of a retired Marine Corps commandant told military investigators he handled the bagged remains of dead insurgents urinated on by scout snipers in Afghanistan, contradicting assertions from senior officers that he had no contact with those Marines.
- May. 22, 2013
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Stolen Valor Act on the way to White House
The Stolen Valor Act that makes it a federal crime to profit from falsely claiming to have received a military medal for valor is on its way to the White House for President Obama's signature, thanks to the efforts of two Nevadans.
- May. 22, 2013
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Holder says 4 U.S. citizens killed in drone strikes
Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged Wednesday that four U.S. citizens had been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009.
- May. 22, 2013
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Float driver: Train seemed still before deadly crash
The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators the oncoming train appeared to be stationary, and that he didn't notice anything was wrong until he saw people jumping from the float, ac
- May. 22, 2013
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29 Palms Marines earn Commander in Chief's 'Installation Excellence Award'
The Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center has been recognized for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year by the Office of the President of the United States with the Commander in Chief's Installation Excell
- May. 22, 2013
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Fort Hood suspect wants to represent himself
The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting rampage.
- May. 22, 2013
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WikiLeaks case file fight moves to federal court
The WikiLeaks organization and a handful of journalists are asking a federal judge in Baltimore to order greater transparency in the court-martial of an Army private who has acknowledged sending reams of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.
- May. 22, 2013
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DoDEA schools will soon decide furlough schedules
Defense Department schools are deciding which days their schools will be closed for the required furloughs this fall and should start posting the information on their websites next week, said Marilee Fitzgerald, director of the Department of Defense Educa
- May. 22, 2013
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VA clears 34,000 old claims under new initiative
A Veterans Affairs Department effort to spend six months concentrating on its oldest benefits claims is having some success, but lawmakers are concerned that the improvements might be temporary.
- May. 22, 2013
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DoD's request for 1% military pay raise, Tricare fee hikes rejected by House panel
A key House panel rejected the idea that budget cuts must mean pain for service members, retirees and their families.
- May. 22, 2013
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