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4 hrs ago | WLTX-TV Columbia

Service Dog Gives Army Ranger New Life

For our military men and women returning home from war, the transition from the front line to their front door can be overwhelming.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Jackson

Mon Feb 13, 2012

Mansfield News Journal

Man served in Pacific during WWII

"What we really need in our search for truth is a commodity that used to be at the heart of good... Every day, this nation loses thousands of its war veterans, men and women who put aside their duties to serve their country.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, US Military, Fort Hayes, US Air Force

Deseret News

Colo. likely to be spared from worst defense cuts

Colorado will probably avoid the worst of the defense budget cutbacks in the post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan era because of the bustling military space operations in Colorado Springs and the Denver area.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado Government, Colorado Springs, CO, US Military, Fort Carson

The Washington Post

Soldier's death in Afghanistan sparks debate over installing guns on US Army medevac choppers

It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed three of his limbs.

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Related Topix: US Military, World News, Afghanistan, Romulus, MI, Science / Technology

New Scientist

Should police and coastguards use laser dazzlers?

THE US police and coastguard may soon start using laser "dazzlers" like those the American and British militaries have employed for years at checkpoints in Iraq and Afghanistan .

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, US Military, Brooke Army Medical Center

Common Dreams

Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story

An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, Hastings, US News, 9

WHTC

At Fort Bliss, video valentines recorded fo...

Aamber Alderson's sweetheart - her husband, Staff Sergeant James Alderson - will be thousands of miles away from her on Valentine's Day.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Bliss, Valentine's Day, Life, Holidays, Fort Bliss, TX, El Paso, TX

Sun Feb 12, 2012

National Public Radio

Virtual Penguins A Prescription For Pain?

Snow World was designed specifically with burn patients in mind - its icy river and comical snowmen are the furthest thing imaginable from fire.

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Related Topix: Health, Pain, US Military, Brooke Army Medical Center

WTOP-FM Washington

Developer proposes housing at Va. historic fort

A developer and the state's housing agency is proposing a large-scale residential project to be built in the center of historic Fort Monroe, but Hampton city officials say they oppose the plan.

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Related Topix: Fort Monroe, US Military, State Prisons, Prison

Jerusalem Post

This Week in History: The firebombing of Dresden

On the night of February 13, 1944, Allied warplanes began one of the deadliest bombing campaigns carried out prior to the US aerial bombardment of Tokyo and atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force

Redlands Daily Facts

Fort Irwin training creates new sort of soldier

Combat trainers with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, who train deploying soldiers in the strategy of the grenade, a weapon the Army in bringing back into more common use, pratice throwing a training version of the M67 fragmentation grenade.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Irwin, Fort Irwin, CA, Fort Bragg, World News, Asia, Afghanistan

Alamogordo Daily News

Goodbye, Wayne

Wayne Mattson was 82 when he died Feb. 3 at his Alamogordo home. Plans for a memorial service are pending.

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Related Topix: Holloman Air Force Base, US Military, US Air Force, White Sands Missile Range, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Edwards Air Force Base, MacDill Air Force Base

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Daily Kos

Surprise, Surprise, the War in Afghanistan is an Unmitigated Disaster

Of course I would no doubt think so even if things were going swimmingly from the military point of view - which they are not.

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Related Topix: Daniel Davis, US Military

Tajikistan News.Net

US Army goes hybrid

The US Army has decided to purchase hybrid electric vehicles from Quantum Fuel Systems.

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Related Topix: US Military

NBC12

Va.'s Fort Lee getting new commanding general

The Progress-Index reports that the Pentagon has named Maj. Gen. Larry D. Wyche to become commanding general of U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command and the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Lee, Redstone Arsenal

The Newberg Graphic

Childhood friends of man in dog tag mystery come forward

Locals share their memories of Henry French Jr. after the Newberg native's dog tag is found in Australia and reported in newspaper This photo, belonging to Carol Fisher, was taken at the U.S. Army's Fort Lewis in Washington before Henry French was deployed overseas.

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Related Topix: Newberg, OR, US Military, Fort Lewis

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Grad tells English learners to study well now

When Maycon MacDowel entered Clinton High School in 2007 as a 17-year-old sophomore from Brazil, he could say hello and goodbye in English, but nothing else.

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Related Topix: US Military, Hastings, Watches

Detroit News

Humanist soldier seeks recognition

Maj. Ray Bradley is applying to be the first humanist recognized as a 'distinctive faith group leader' by the Army.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Bragg

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Modern Mechanix

You Fly to Work - in the Us Army Airborne

Filed under: Advertisements - @ 9:33 am Source: Mechanix Illustrated Issue: Aug, 1951 Buy on Ebay Tags: military recruitment That's how the Airborne gets there "fustest with the mostest" on the wings of huge transports carrying the finest fighting men in the U. S. Army.

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WIBW-TV Topeka

Senior Non-commissioned Officer Charged In Child Porn Sting

A Fort Riley soldier is in trouble with the law after police say he was caught downloading and sharing pornographic files of children on his home computer.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Riley, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Junction City, KS

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