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  1. A Marine walks past an MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft barely visible through its own dust cloud after landing Jan. 31 in a remote training range of Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.

    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

  1. Pentagon to seek new vets record system

  1. Sexual assault prevention workers will not be furloughed

  2. Should you feel sorry for Bradley Manning? New film thinks so

  3. House panel poised to reject lower pay raise, Tricare fee hikes

  4. Lawmakers prepare sweeping changes to military's sexual assault laws

  5. Analysis: Chronic pain affects growing number of vets

  6. Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance

  7. Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

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    GOP lawmakers seek limits on missile defense cooperation with Russia

    Republicans are trying to block Obama administration overtures to Russia on missile defense, creating a potential obstacle to arms control talks.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    House passes bill giving disabled vets expedited airport screenings

    The House has passed a bill that would require the Transportation Security Administration to expedite security screenings for severely injured or disabled veterans and any family members or caregivers traveling with them.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    U.S. lawmakers seek Asia missile defense safeguard

    Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    House passes automatic COLA for veterans

    Annual cost-of-living adjustments in veterans' disability and survivor benefits would become automatic — just like Social Security — beginning in 2014 under a bill passed by the House on Tuesday.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    VA closing in on mental health hiring goal

    The Veterans Affairs Department is 240 people shy of meeting a goal to hire 1,600 new mental health professionals by June 30, VA officials said Tuesday.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, is escorted into a courthouse May 21 in Fort Meade, Md., before a pretrial military hearing. Patrick Semansky / AP

    WikiLeaks prosecutor accepts plea to 1 count

    The government will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 700,000 classified U.S.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Mothers in uniform get room on base to nurse young

    Army civilian personnel specialist Tracey Leven recalls the time she tried to use a breast pump to express milk in a military office years ago. Instead of 'breast pump in use,' she was required to put a sign on the door reading, '

    • May. 21, 2013
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    A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. AP file

    Court: U.S. can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

    A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

    • May. 21, 2013

  9. VA partners with DAV, American Legion on faster claims

    The Veterans Affairs Department's latest initiative to try to reduce the backlog of compensation claims is a partnership with the American Legion and Disabled American Veterans to help veterans make sure their file has all the essential information.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Wounded Iraq vet now says he will remain alive

    Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war veteran who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said that he has decided to live for now.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Unclaimed veterans' remains buried

    The unclaimed remains of 35 military veterans, including some from World War I, and two military wives have been given formal military burials in Northern California.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    SBA starting new lending program for veterans

    The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands May 6 with his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Xi will confer with President Barack Obama in June in California. Jason Lee / AP

    China's Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected

    China's new leader, Xi Jinping, will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    6 months for contractor who stole Marine supplies

    A defense contractor at Camp Pendleton has been sentenced to six months in prison for his role in the theft of pricey medical equipment intended for overseas Marines.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Humor or harassment? Marine Corps leadership targets salty Facebook sites

    The trouble for Lance Cpl. H started when she checked her Facebook account one day last year to find nearly 50 new friend requests from male Marines she didn't know.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Draft report touts Reserves as bargain

    The Defense Department is preparing to send a controversial report to Congress that explains in detail how Reserve-component troops are substantially cheaper than active-duty members — an official analysis that is likely to fuel a growing debate about the

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Plebes attempt to climb Herndon Monument and retrieve a plebe's dixie cup hat and replace it with a midshipman's cover at the Naval Academy on May 20. Mike Morones/Staff

    Gallery: Plebes complete Herndon climb

    The Class of 2016 took 1 hour, 32 minutes and 43 seconds to remove a 'Dixie cup' cover from the top of the Herndon Monument, marking the end of their plebe year at the Naval Academy.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Governor deploys Okla. Guard to assist after tornado

    Search-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    A member of the Marine Corps honor guard waits May 15 for the start of a funeral service for 13 service members killed in a helicopter crash on May 12, 1975, in the Gulf of Thailand. Their commingled remains were buried in a single casket at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Mike Morones / Staff

    The Mayaguez incident: A farewell

    The commingled remains of 13 fallen service members — mostly Marines — killed in the last armed action of the Vietnam War were laid to rest May 15 at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. The men died in a raid known today as the Mayaguez Incident, which was mounted to save the crew of a civilian container ship highjacked in 1975 by communist Khmer Rouge forces near Cambodia.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    New Stolen Valor Act passes House 390-3

    The Stolen Valor Act, a bill making it illegal to profit from falsely claiming to have received a military valor medal, has passed the House of Representatives again on a 390-3 vote.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Pentagon wants $79.4B for Afghanistan War in 2014

    The Pentagon has asked Congress to approve $79.4 billion for combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Injured veteran finds outlet at Warrior Games

    Sgt. Evan Davis could talk for hours about the intricacies and techniques behind competitive air-rifle shooting. But he can summarize it best as '90 percent mental and 10 percent fundamental.'

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Wave of attacks kills at least 95 in Iraq

    A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in

    • May. 20, 2013

  24. Tricare Prime West referral waivers extended

    Tricare Prime beneficiaries in the West region are still facing delays in obtaining specialty care, prompting Pentagon officials to extend the waiver period for getting treatment without a referral through June 18.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    U.S. says Pakistan curbing explosive fertilizers

    Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer Monday.

    • May. 20, 2013

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