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The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.

For the third time in as many years, voters are being called to the polls next Tuesday to choose a new U.S. senator, with Republican and former Navy SEAL turned private equity investor Gabriel E. Gomez facing veteran Democrat U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey.

"The issue with PTSD is that so many Marines and sailors are not diagnosed or seeking treatment," said Jim Askins, the department head of health promotions.

Thirty-five years after selecting its first class of space shuttle astronauts in 1978 - the 'Thirty-Five New Guys' - NASA on Monday introduced the four men and four women who make up the Astronaut Class of 2013.

The Kentucky long rifle was effectively used as a sniping weapon during the Revolutionary War - allowing colonial soldiers to pick off officers at range due to its rifling and superior accuracy.

Monday's announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American woman in space, Sally Ride.

As someone angry over government fraud and waste, I can understand the need for our elected leaders to tighten their financial belts when it some to spending our money.

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.

The federal government is putting a former Coast Guard cutter up for auction after efforts to send it to a museum in Juneau failed.

The superintendent of the Naval Academy has decided to bring charges in the alleged sexual assault of a female midshipman last year by three members of the football team, academy officials said Monday.

In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, wearing a camouflage jacket and white turban, is seen during a break in the pretrial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2013.

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.

Attorneys for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked a federal judge Monday to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go forward with Kyle's widow as the defendant.

After graduating from Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1951, Ensign Bob Thomas served as a navigator aboard a Navy P2V, twin-engine "Neptune" bomber.

This combination of file photos shows Chris Kyle, left, former Navy SEAL and author of the book “American Sniper,” on April 6, 2012, and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, right, on Sept.

The porn industry has had a rough five years, from an online migration of content that has pirated its products to a drive in its hometown of L.A. to require condoms on-set.

Every new day seems to bring new revelations and reactions to the controversial electronic surveillance programs.

'I've seen guys try to navigate the system to get what they rightfully deserve, and they didn't get it before they died,' said Randy Soubliere, commander of VFW Post 4357 in Brighton and a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War.

The sights and sounds of the city's International Children's Festival returned to Main Street Saturday, bringing games, vendors, trolley rides and tidings from across the globe to local families.

The FReeper Canteen Salutes the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps On Its 115th Anniversary 17 JUNE 1898 - 17 JUNE 2013 From the early days of the Republic the Navy has had enlisted medical personnel known variously as 'Loblolly Boys', Surgeons Stewards, Pharmacists Mates and, most recently, Hospital Corpsmen.