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Reuters – Democrats hope to pack a must-pass U.S. defense spending bill with measures to help victims of the ailing economy, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin said on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
11
AFP – Poland and the United States on Friday signed an agreement on the status of US troops in the eastern European country ahead of the deployment of US Patriot missiles. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
11
The World’s Longest Christmas Parade reaches Washington, DC, on Friday, where Wreaths Across America will hold a ceremony Friday afternoon at the Pentagon Memorial honoring the victims of 9/11. On Saturday morning, Wreaths Across America and volunteers will place more than 25,000 Christmas wreaths to decorate graves of America’s veterans at Arlington National Cemetery. If you’d like to join them to help place the wreaths, be at Arlington before Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
10
AFP – The US military is taking a serious look at resupplying combat troops in Afghanistan using unmanned aircraft, an Air Force general said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
10
BusinessWeek – Leaving the Army was a difficult decision. I had already invested eight years of my life in my military career, considering the time spent as an ROTC cadet at Wake Forest University and an active duty tour that took me everywhere from Kansas to Iraq. However, during my deployment I realized that my professional and personal goals weren’t compatible with a lifetime spent in the armed forces. With this in mind, I began the bittersweet Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
10
Reuters – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders on Thursday as U.S. commanders said plans to reduce troop levels sharply by next summer were on track despite delayed elections and a major al Qaeda attack. President Barack Obama has pledged to end combat operations in Iraq by August 31, 2010, before a full pullout by the end of 2011. The U.S. force in Iraq is supposed to be reduced to 50,000 by end of August from around 115,000 now. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
10
AFP – The US military is taking a serious look at resupplying combat troops in Afghanistan using unmanned aircraft, an Air Force general said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
9
BusinessWeek – Leaving the Army was a difficult decision. I had already invested eight years of my life in my military career, considering the time spent as an ROTC cadet at Wake Forest University and an active duty tour that took me everywhere from Kansas to Iraq. However, during my deployment I realized that my professional and personal goals weren’t compatible with a lifetime spent in the armed forces. With this in mind, I began the bittersweet Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
9
BusinessWeek – Leaving the Army was a difficult decision. I had already invested eight years of my life in my military career, considering the time spent as an ROTC cadet at Wake Forest University and an active duty tour that took me everywhere from Kansas to Iraq. However, during my deployment I realized that my professional and personal goals weren’t compatible with a lifetime spent in the armed forces. With this in mind, I began the bittersweet Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
8
Reuters – FBI Director Robert Mueller ordered an independent review on Tuesday of how the agency handled information that the military psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting had communicated with an anti-American cleric in Yemen. Read the rest of this entry »