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  1. A loadmaster gives final signals to the crew of a B-52 as it begins shutdown procedures at RAAF Base Darwin, Australia. Air Force

    Pacific shift: New assignments and duty stations in throwback to Cold War deployments

    As the U.S. builds its presence in the Pacific, the Air Force is looking back to the Cold War for managing deployments.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  2. Air Force Staff Sgt. Mark Smith, 33rd Rescue Squadron, receives the Air Force Commendation Medal last year from Brig. Gen. Matthew Molloy, 18th Wing commander, on Kadena Air Base, Japan. Smith was killed in a helicopter crash last week on Okinawa, Japan. Airman 1st Class Justin Veazie / Air Force

    Air Force identifies airman killed in helicopter crash

    The Air Force has identified an airman killed in a helicopter crash last week as Tech. Sgt. Mark A Smith.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  3. PACAF cuts back on exercises because of sequestration

    Despite the long-term buildup in the Pacific, the Air Force has had to put some exercises there on hold because of sequestration.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  4. Security forces airman sentenced to 15 months

    Convicted of aggravated sexual contact

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  5. Heather Leann Horst, 24, of St. Paul, Minn., left, and Aaron William Allen, 25, of South St. Paul, Minn., were charged with second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a felony in the shooting death of Horst's husband, National Guard Staff Sgt. Brandon Horst. Ramsey County Sheriff's Dept. via The St. Paul Pio

    Wife, friend charged in Minn. guardsman's killing

    The widow of a slain Minnesota Air National Guard member was charged Monday along with another man in her husband's killing.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  6. Kerry defends NSA surveillance programs

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry defended the National Security Agency surveillance programs on Monday and downplayed their impact on U.S. efforts to deepen relations with two key allies in Latin America.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  7. Budget office releases estimate for 2014 COLA

    The cost-of-living adjustment in government benefits for next year is likely to be 1.5 percent, according to an August 8 estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  8. Ronald Pofalla, chief of staff of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaks during a press conference in Berlin on Aug. 12. The senior German official says Germany and the U.S. will begin talks this month on an agreement not to spy on one another in wake of the revelations about electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency. Rainer Jensen/AP

    Official: U.S., Germany to negotiate 'no spy' pact

    Germany and the United States will begin negotiations this month on an agreement not to spy on one another in wake of the revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden about massive electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency, a senior German offic

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  9. Afghans taking charge and changing names

    Military announcements of deaths in Afghanistan — generally terse, bare-bones statements — have undergone a subtle change this summer, reflecting the shift to Afghans for the security of their country.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  10. Yemen's al-Qaida leader vows to free prisoners

    The leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot vowed in a message posted Monday to free fellow militants from prisons and urged jailed fighters to remain faithful to the terror group's ideology.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  11. DoD responds to child abuse crisis

    Faced with an epidemic of child abuse across the four services, the Defense Department is establishing a child abuse working group, according to a Pentagon spokesman.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  12. The Pentagon won't be dictating program cuts to the services, said Jessica Wright, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Mike Morones / staff

    DoD: Fate of quality-of-life programs left to services

    As more and deeper budget cuts loom, the fate of the military's quality-of-life programs will be left to the individual services, defense officials say.

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  13. Editorial: A budget blow to troops

    When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently floated the broad outlines of his Strategic Choices Management Review, the section on military pay and benefits included now-familiar proposals to shrink future annual military pay raises and make changes in the

    • Aug. 12, 2013
  14. Alison Weir, second from the left, at the National Diaper Bank Network's kick-off distribution in January 2012 at Covenant House in Washington, D.C. Also featured: Dan Brannen, Executive Director of Covenant House; Joanne Goldblum, Executive Director, NDBN; Janice Weiman, then President of Kids in Distressed Situations; Corinne Cannon, Executive Director of DC Diaper Bank; Chris Blake, then Vice President of Kids in Distressed Situations. Courtesy Alison Weir

    Retired lt. col. helps get diaper supplies to families in need

    Alison Weir worked in the space and intelligence arena in the Air Force, but now she has a new mission — overseeing diaper supply programs to diaper banks across the U.S.

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  15. DoD weighs major COCOM realignment

    The Pentagon is considering a major overhaul of its geographical combatant commands, possibly realigning oversight within hot-button areas of the world and eliminating thousands of military and civilian positions,according to defense sources..

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  16. The idea for the nonprofit came, Hudgins said, after he received a Christmas card from home with a picture in which he saw almost every woman wearing a scarf. Courtesy of Jonathan Hudgins

    USAF captains' nonprofit helps Afghan women sell handmade scarves

    If not for the Christmas card Capt. Jonathan Hudgins got while in Afghanistan or the summers he worked in his family's grocery, Flying Scarfs might not have taken off.

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  17. A soldier monitors a computer screen at the Western Air Defense Sector at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Along with the Eastern Defense Sector based in Rome, N.Y., WADS monitors the continental United States for threats from the sky as part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Ted S. Warren/AP

    JBLM houses airspace protection program

    A red circle slowly moves across one of seven computer screens on the desk of Tech. Sgt. Mary Maggiolino.

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  18. Shaw AFB helps new dads cope with kids

    New parents have a hard enough time dealing with crying, up-at-all-hours babies.

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  19. This court room sketch shows Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during his court-martial Aug. 6 at Forth Hood, Texas. Brigitte Woosley / AP

    Fort Hood trial: Vivid testimony, quiet defendant

    The first week of the trial of Maj.

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  20. NATO says 3 troops killed in Afghanistan

    NATO said three of its service members were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan but provided no further details.

    • Aug. 11, 2013
  21. Military prosecutor Col. Steve Henricks, right, speaks as Nidal Malik Hasan, center, and presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn look on during Hasan's court-martial on Tuesday. Victims and others are asking why the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood is being tried as a case of workplace violence instead of an act of terror. Brigitte Woosley / AP

    Fort Hood shooting: Terrorism or not?

    Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan admits pulling out a pistol, shouting 'Allahu akbar' (God is great) and opening fire on unarmed people, killing 13 of them. All, he says, in an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims.

    • Aug. 10, 2013
  22. Wayne, a San Clemente fox that was rescued by civilian wildlife biologists, entertains visitors in his cage on San Clemente Island, Calif. Lenny Ignelzi / AP

    Photo gallery: Endangered species thrive on U.S. military ranges

    The sign leaves no doubt about the risk in entering the steep seaside hills that North America's rarest bird calls home: 'Danger. Boom. Explosives. Unexploded Ordnance and Laser Range in Use. Keep Out.'

    • Aug. 10, 2013
  23. Army uses Air Force lessons learned in basic training review

    The Army wants to learn from the Air Force's mistakes.

    • Aug. 10, 2013
  24. Suspected U.S. drone strike kills 2 in Yemen

    A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two alleged al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen on Saturday, military officials said, making it the ninth such strike in just two weeks.

    • Aug. 10, 2013

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