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Pentagon defends 'clarification' of religious rules for military
The Pentagon has not changed its stance on allowing service members to share their faith but not to proselytize, a Pentagon official says. The military reiterated its policies after several conservative news outlets, including The Washington Times an ...
U.S. F-22 fighters join S. Korea war games
Advanced U.S. F-22 stealth jet fighters were poised in South Korea for war games Monday as North Korea said its nuclear-weapons program was non-negotiable. The U.S. military command in South Korea said it flew the single-seat, twin-engine fighter air ...
Production of New Cyberwarfare Medal Stopped
[caption id="attachment_18664" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]WASHINGTON - The military has stopped production of a new medal for remote warfare troops as it considers complaints from veterans and lawmakers over the award, a go ...
7,000 attend Chris Kyle memorial at Cowboys Stadium
About 7,000 attended a memorial service Monday at Cowboys Stadium for Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL sniper who was slain last week near Glen Rose. At about 11:30 a.m., parking lots filled up quickly for the 1 p.m. service at the 80,000-seat stadiu ...
Women in military say standards should stay same
Women in the military do not want standards to be lowered to help them get into ground combat jobs, advocacy groups and servicewomen say. "We don't want unqualified women in these positions," said Maj. Mary Hegar, a decorated helicopter pilot who was ...
Panetta predicts women will qualify
Whatever standards the military establishes for its most elite units, women will most likely meet them, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicts. Panetta, who ordered the services last month to open all ground combat jobs to women by 2016, told USA TO ...
Miracle double surgery gives severely injured soldier arms
A young Staten Island GI who miraculously survived losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has undergone a stunning double-arm transplant - and now hopes to use the new limbs to help him walk again. Brendan Marrocco, 26, received the rare transplant De ...
New combat policy ignores biological realities
Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's decision to open virtually all positions in the military to women, including those in infantry and front-line combat units, is the wrong policy, adopted for the wrong reasons and implemented the wrong way. It ...
Pentagon opens front lines to women
[caption id="attachment_20779" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall, File)[/caption]The thought of women dodging bullets and bombs in combat may have seemed jarringly out of place in earlier eras of Doughboys and G.I. Joes and th ...
Budget or no, military spending cuts lie ahead
USA Today - Military service chiefs outlined spending cuts, including a 30% reduction in operating costs for Army posts, as part of their plans to deal with uncertainty over the size of the federal budget, letters released Wednesday show. The Pentago ...
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