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  1. Marine Corps Capt. Paul Gates, commanding officer of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, pauses during a dismounted patrol with Afghan National Civil Order Policemen during Operation California APril 28 in Kajaki district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials. Marine Corps

    U.S., Afghans, Taliban to begin peace talks in Qatar

    Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  2. VA Gulf War panel members walk out to protest changes

    Three members of a Veterans Affairs Department advisory committee on Persian Gulf War illnesses walked out of a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest planned changes to the board’s makeup — alterations they say are designed to neuter the often outspoken panel.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  3. U.S. may need to fill 'gaps' in Afghan forces after 2014

    The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the Afghan military may need some operational support beyond the planned end of combat operations there in late 2014.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  4. Editorial: A call for common sense

    Inspectors across the Navy and Marine Corps are walking through workspaces, galleys, berthing spaces and even the heads, looking for anything that might be deemed 'offensive' and inappropriate.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  5. National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander testifies June 18 on Capitol Hill before the House Intelligence Committee. J. Scott Applewhite / AP

    Army 4-star defends surveillance program

    The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, in a forceful defense of spy operations that wa

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  6. Marine combat death in Afghanistan under investigation

    The death of a Marine lance corporal Sunday in Afghanistan is under investigation, Pentagon officials announced Monday night.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  7. Plan seeks to hire reservists, vets for border duties

    Reservists and veterans would be actively recruited for border security jobs, with incentives including student loan repayment and signing bonuses, under a bipartisan Senate plan unveiled Monday.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  8. Afghan forces taking security lead nationwide

    Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide, President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday in a significant milestone in the 12-year war.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  9. Having military bands perform at community events would become easier under an amendment passed Friday by the House of Representatives. Above, musicians with the Marine Corps Forces, Pacific Band, march and perform May 22 in the Military Appreciation Day Parade in Waikiki, Hawaii. Sgt. Juan D. Alfonso / Marine Corps

    Marine Corps' bagpipes boycott drives new legislation

    Having military bands perform at community events would become easier under an amendment passed Friday by the House of Representatives.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  10. Your new RAT boots: Quicker drying footwear coming in 2014

    The Marine Corps will begin fielding quick-drying Rugged All Terrain boots in the next year.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  11. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, talk to media during a news conference at the Pentagon on May 17. Women may be able to begin training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under broad plans Hagel is approving that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in the country's elite special operations forces, according to details of the plans submitted to Hagel that were obtained by the Associated Press. Carolyn Kaster / The Associated Press

    Military plans would put women in most combat jobs

    Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  12. Wilma Rees, 90, of Arizona (right) and her twin sister, Amelia Kizer, 90, of Nebraska, members of the American Rosie the Riveter Association (ARRA), worked on B-17 bombers at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle during World War II. Members of ARRA toured a portion of the former GM Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti Township. The 5-million-square-foot plant was built by Henry Ford to make B-24 bombers for the military during World War II and is likely to be destroyed by GM's bankruptcy trust to make way for new development. James Fassinger / Detroit Free Press

    WWII riveters return one last time to bomber plant

    Rosie the Riveter returned to her factory, just a few months before it's likely to be demolished.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  13. WikiLeaks trial witness: Troop email addresses could be used in cyberattacks

    A huge database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday as the trial of Pfc.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  14. 2 female pilots among six service members selected to be astronauts

    NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
    • NEWS /
    A Thai volunteer works with Lance Cpl. Nathan Grove, with Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, during exercise Cobra Gold 2012. Officials say cultural skills Marines learned over the past decade will apply to missions in the Asia-Pacific region. Sgt. Matthew Troyer / Marine Corps

    One-star: Counterinsurgency skills learned in Iraq, Afghanistan relevant in Pacific

    The cultural know-how Marines developed as part of the counterinsurgency strategy used in Iraq and Afghanistan will be applicable to new missions in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a general who oversees operations there.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  15. Former Marine facing extradition claims innocence

    A former U.S. Marine facing extradition to the Philippines on double murder charges says he is innocent.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  16. Some Wisconsin National Guard members face furloughs

    Hundreds of Wisconsin National Guard members face furloughs as the result of the automatic federal budget cuts that took effect earlier this year.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
    • NEWS /

    Osprey crash responders awarded medals

    Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Alvarez was watching an MV-22B Osprey rise from a training site in Morocco last year when everything went wrong. The aircraft lost balance, pitched forward and crashed nose-first with a sickening crunch on the landing zone.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
    • NEWS /
    Sailors can receive much more than faith-based counseling from their chaplains, and all discussions are confidential. Here, a sailor speaks with Lt. Cmdr. Henry 'Fred' Holcombe, a chaplain assigned to the aircraft carrier Enterprise, last year during the carrier's final deployment to 5th Fleet. MCSN Gregory White / Navy

    Navy emphasizes talking with chaplains is confidential

    Regardless of personal faith, any sailor, Marine or Coast Guardsmen can talk to a chaplain about problems and know the discussion will remain confidential.

    • Jun. 16, 2013
  17. Consideration of Syria no-fly zone relies on Iraq experience

    The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria's civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts.

    • Jun. 16, 2013
  18. Afghans poised to take security lead from U.S., NATO

    One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are taking the lead for security nationwide, bringing the moment of truth on the question of whether they are re

    • Jun. 16, 2013
  19. Judge seals jury's penalty decision in Marine murder case

    Riverside County jurors have reached a decision on whether one of three Camp Pendleton Marines should get the death penalty for murdering a fellow serviceman and his wife.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
    • NEWS /
    A Marine MV-22 Osprey aircraft lands Friday on the Japanese destroyer JS Hyuga in coastal waters off San Diego. The aircraft made an unprecedented landing on the vessel, despite protests in Japan over concerns over the tilt-rotor aircraft's safety record. Gregory Bull / AP

    Marines land Osprey aircraft on Japanese ship

    A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft made an unprecedented landing Friday on a Japanese naval vessel off the California coast.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
  20. Ahmed Zuhair poses June 14 for a photo backdropped by the four-faced clock, atop the Abraj Al-Bait Towers, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Zuhair, a former sheep merchant who was never charged with any crime during seven years at Guantanamo, stopped eating in June 2005 and kept up his protest until he was sent home to Saudi Arabia in 2009. The Associated Press

    Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed

    For more than three months, the U.S.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
  21. Marine staff noncommissioned officers charged with hazing

    Two South Carolina-based staff noncommissioned officers have been charged with violating the Marine Corps' order on hazing and maltreatment and will face special courts-martial in coming months, officials said Friday.

    • Jun. 14, 2013

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