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47 min ago | WHDH

Postponed US long-range missile test due Tuesday

The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of tensions with North Korea, is now scheduled to happen on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Vandenberg Air Force Base, US Air Force

3 hrs ago | WKRN

More Fort Campbell troops return from Afghanistan

The plane carrying nearly 90 members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division touched down at the U.S. Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border Sunday evening.

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Related Topix: US Army, Fort Campbell

8 hrs ago | Journal Gazette

FBI Agents Killed in Virginia Training Accident

Two FBI agents from an elite counterterrorism unit based in Northern Virginia were killed Friday during a training exercise in the Virginia Beach area, the FBI said Sunday.

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Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Virginia Beach, VA, Quantico, VA, US Navy

12 hrs ago | Ledger-Enquirer.com

Robin Abcarian: Military sex assault scandal goes from bad to worse

After writing last week about the Pentagon's report on the dramatic increase in reports of sexual assault in the last two years, I went back and looked at some of the coverage of one of the most notorious sexual assault scandals in U.S. military history, which took place in 1991 at the annual gathering of the Tailhook Association, a group of active ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Navy

Sun May 19, 2013

WTVG-TV Toledo

Norwalk man charged in meth lab bust

The raid happened in back in March. The Norwalk Reflector reports authorities found an active meth lab in the apartment of Allen Mobberly, 32.

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Related Topix: Youngstown, OH, US Coast Guard, US News

Genesee Country Express

Wingnuts contrive another silly Obama "scandal" - Umbrella-gate

When U.S. Marines were shown providing umbrella coverage for President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Rose Garden news conference the other day , the right-wing noise machine went into high gear.

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Related Topix: US Marine Corps, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, Middle East, World News

North Port Sun

Re-enactor brings Black Seminole history to life

SUN PHOTO BY AL HEMINGWAY Dressed in ceremonial garb, John Griffin explains the role Black Seminoles had during their conflicts with the U.S., during the 13th annual Emancipation Day celebration Saturday afternoon at the Blanchard House Museum in Punta Gorda.

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Related Topix: Seminole, FL, Punta Gorda, FL, US Army

Patch.com

Military Dog Sniffs Bomb Inches from Handler's Foot

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Shannon Hutto will always consider Eddie a hero, regardless of the outcome of a public poll for the next American Hero Dogs.

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Related Topix: MacDill Air Force Base, US Air Force, San Antonio, TX

ABC11

After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean

Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud.

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Related Topix: US Marine Corps, US News

Rocky Mount Telegram

Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground.

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Related Topix: US Marine Corps, US News

Sat May 18, 2013

The Modesto Bee

Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base.

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Related Topix: Andrews Air Force Base, US Air Force, Healthcare Law, Law

St. Cloud Times

General: Threat from homemade bombs here to stay

An Army team transfers the remains of Spc. Thomas P. Murach May 7 at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

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Related Topix: US Air Force, Dover Air Force Base, Meridian, ID

KFOXTV

Marine daughter seeks dignity for 'Devil Dog pups'

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears.

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Related Topix: US Marine Corps, US News, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Peninsula Clarion

Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply

A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

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Related Topix: US Marine Corps, US News, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, US Navy, North Carolina

MLive.com

From Afghanistan to Iraq, and now in Hanover, Siebert continues to affect the lives around him

For most of Siebert's life, he has trained and worked as an Improvised Explosives Detection dog for the United States Marine Corps.

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WHDH

Soldier from Dalton killed in Afghanistan

A Dalton man is mourning the death of his soldier son who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: Dalton, MA, US Air Force, Dover Air Force Base

Fri May 17, 2013

CBS News

Navy pilot earns degree in combat zone

The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Navy, World News, Afghanistan, University of Southern California, University of Maryland University College

KING-TV Seattle

Fresh Copper River salmon lands in Seattle

The first planeload of Copper River salmon from Cordova, Alaska, landed Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport and the Alaska Airlines pilots carried a 40-pound king to waiting chefs.

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Related Topix: Cordova, AK, US Air Force, Seattle, WA

CBS 47

Dark clouds hang over air shows after budget cuts

The automatic budget cuts that grounded the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds are taking a toll on performers, air show announcers, concessionaires, vendors and others who depend on air shows and the millions of spectators.

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Related Topix: Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Fairchild Air Force Base, US Air Force, North Carolina

WHDH

1 sailor dead, others injured in training accident

Officials say one U.S. Navy sailor was killed and several others were hurt in a training exercise at Fort Knox in Kentucky.

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Related Topix: US Navy, Fort Knox, KY