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By Staci DaSilva sdasilva@kcautv.com MidAmerican Energy says it hasn't raised your rates since 1995.

Marine Col. Jon Aytes watches at left as Army Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

The Defense Department is proceeding with plans to start moving women into combat roles.

Tinker Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force base located in Oklahoma City, near the suburb of Midwest City, Oklahoma.

Syrian warplanes bombed rebel positions near a contested military air base in the north on Tuesday, activists said, while President Bashar Assad's forces nearby pressed ahead with an offensive against opposition fighters in the country's largest city Aleppo.

After several years of fighting a literally uphill battle against a challenging yard, Gallo bought a synthetic lawn.

Col. Nathan Jorgensen will be the featured military career speaker at 6 pm on June 20 at the meeting of the Civil Air Patrol Highlanders Cadet Squadron.

Charles Moore Jr. is no stranger to the fears and anxieties of war, having flown more than 600 combat hours in fighter jets and now serving as a commander of a collection of squadrons responsible for more than 130 aircraft that comprise the Air Force's most diverse flying wing.

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.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday was slated to visit a North Dakota Air Force base that has been plagued for years by missteps involving nuclear weapons.

Chris Chadwick, president of Boeing 's military aircraft division, said the company could sell 100 to 200 of its KC-46 refueling tankers to international customers in coming years.

US AIR FORCE PHOTO/MASTER SGT. SEATON HIXSONMembers of the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron fold and dismount a radar in Southwest Asia on May 29 to relocate the antennae to a newly constructed 55 foot tower.

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A French drone aircraft is displayed at the Paris Air Show in le Bourget, North of Paris, Sunday, June 16, 2013.

Peace activists are marching across eastern Iowa to protest a plan to fly unmanned aircraft from an air base in Des Moines.

AFTER: Tech. Sgt. Patrick Kennedy lost 56 pounds and 8 inches off his waist by changing his diet and walking two miles a day.

But last week, when the Senate Armed Services Committee had its chance to find a cure, it opted for the equivalent of an aspirin.

An Afghan air force Mi-35 fires 23 mm rounds. The Afghans have six Mi-35s but don't have final approval to fire missiles in combat.

A man runs amongst rubble as smoke rises from buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province, eastern Syria, March 12, 2013.

The House approved a measure Friday that would require all branches of the U.S. military to share the same camouflage uniforms - instead of the 10 different camouflage patterns in use today.