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  • Obama praises those who stopped shooter
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as “all the more heartbreaking and all the...
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 16:55:32 EST
  • Wounded airman wants decision on staying in
    After spending almost four years recovering from a bomb blast in Afghanistan, Tech. Sgt. Israel Del Toro wants to stay in uniform and teach others to be a JTAC like he was.
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 16:25:52 EST
  • USS New York commissioned in shadow of midtown
    NEW YORK — The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 15:38:00 EST
  • Fox takes NFL pregame show to Afghanistan
    NEW YORK — The Fox NFL pregame show Sunday will be broadcast from a military installation in Afghanistan.
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 13:13:59 EST
  • Flournoy: Allies would add Afghan troops, too
    BRUSSELS — A top Pentagon official says President Barack Obama’s new strategy for Afghanistan will be certain to include reinforcements of foreign troops from both the United States and...
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 11:13:59 EST
  • Afghans say NATO strike killed Afghan troops
    KABUL — U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers...
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 15:12:03 EST
  • Air Force, Army teams to recognize Hood victims
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Air Force Academy will hold a moment of silence to honor the shooting victims at Fort Hood before the Army-Air Force football game Saturday at the academy.
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 10:34:17 EST
  • DoD: No military mail use for charity efforts
    Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Paul Holton got the message loud and clear, he said, when the Pentagon sent him a “cease and desist” letter about his efforts to help Iraqi children.
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 9:54:14 EST
  • Obama makes the rounds at Walter Reed
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. service members Friday afternoon.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 18:43:47 EST
  • War of words heats up over vets bill blockage
    The chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee remains hopeful that a roadblock holding up consideration of an omnibus veterans’ health care bill can be cleared early next week.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 14:26:56 EST
  • Military’s stance on burn pits assailed
    The Air Force bioenvironmental officer who was among the first to warn about the potential effects of open-air burn pits on U.S. troops deployed in the war zones said Friday that he does not believe...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 15:23:14 EST
  • 82nd Airborne soldiers missing in Afghanistan
    KABUL — Two American soldiers disappeared in western Afghanistan after a routine resupply mission, and more than 25 NATO and Afghan security forces members were wounded during the search...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 14:05:02 EST
  • Details on Fort Hood suspect emerge
    WASHINGTON — His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Afghanistan and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required...
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 19:13:29 EST
  • Muslim group condemns Hood shootings
    WASHINGTON — The Council on American-Islamic Relations is condemning the shootings at Fort Hood, although it’s not known whether the shooter was Muslim.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 19:42:49 EST
  • Online support follows Hood shootings
    A flood of support is hitting the Army’s social media sites in the wake of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.
    Posted Friday Nov 6, 2009 19:17:02 EST
  • Airman among 6 killed in Mexico bar shooting
    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.
    Posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 10:26:34 EST
  • Names of chief master sergeant picks released
    The Air Force has released the names of eligible senior master sergeants selected for promotion to chief master sergeant.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 14:19:22 EST
  • USAA now open to honorably discharged vets
    USAA has expanded its customer base to include all honorably discharged veterans and their families, making about 35 million more people eligible for membership.
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 14:07:47 EST
  • Report: Vets need drug treatment, not jail
    Treatment, not incarceration, should be the first option for veterans who commit nonviolent drug-related offenses, a group advocating alternatives to the nation’s “war on drugs”...
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 14:25:31 EST
  • American Legion ups pressure on Coburn
    The American Legion is organizing a grassroots campaign in Oklahoma to try to persuade Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to lift his hold on S 1963, an omnibus veterans bill, so it can be approved and...
    Posted Thursday Nov 5, 2009 13:39:38 EST

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