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08 26th, 2011|
AP - Jennifer Tullis still keeps her husband’s camouflage uniform in the closet, all starched, ironed and folded, even though he died 12 years ago.
Aug
19
AP - Work 20 years and keep earning half your pay for the rest of your life. For years that’s what American taxpayers have been providing for those who serve in the military.
Aug
6
AFP - The US Army will shorten the length of tours of duty for personnel deployed in combat zones from a year to nine months, as it pursues its withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Friday.
Aug
5
AFP - The US Army will shorten the length of tours of duty for personnel deployed in combat zones from a year to nine months, as it pursues its withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Friday.
Aug
1
Reuters - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan worked to tighten civilian control of the military on Monday by choosing generals he can trust after the top four commanders resigned over the detention of comrades facing coup conspiracy charges.
Jul
30
Reuters - Turkey faced turmoil within its military on Saturday after the country’s four most senior commanders quit in protest over the detention of 250 officers on charges of conspiring against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Jul
29
Reuters - Turkey said on Friday its top four military chiefs were all seeking retirement, in moves that appeared to reflect a deep rift between the secularist military and a government with roots in political Islam.
Jul
28
AFP - A US soldier arrested near the Fort Hood military base in Texas aimed to attack military personnel in what investigators are considering a “terror plot,” police said Thursday.
Jul
28
AFP - General Martin Dempsey, the nominee to be the next chief uniformed officer of the US military, said Tuesday that major cuts in defense spending would pose a “very high risk” to the United States.