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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
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    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
  4. 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
  5. 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
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    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
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    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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
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    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
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    Army uses Air Force lessons learned in basic training review

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

    • Aug. 10, 2013
  9. 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
  10. President Barack Obama speaks Saturday at the Disabled American Veterans' convention in Orlando. Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    Obama: Progress made on disability claims backlog

    President Barack Obama assured disabled veterans Saturday that his administration is making progress on reducing a backlog of disability claims and said the number of requests for assistance has fallen by nearly one-fifth since peaking at more than 600,000 just a few months ago.

    • Aug. 10, 2013
  11. Yemeni soldiers inspect a car at a checkpoint Saturday on a street leading to the U.S. and British embassies in Sanaa, Yemen. Eighteen U.S. diplomatic outposts closed because of a terrorist threat will reopen Sunday, but the U.S. Embassy in Yemen will remain closed due to ongoing concerns about potential terrorist attacks by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Hani Mohammed / AP

    Post-Benghazi, Obama plays it safe with embassies

    President Barack Obama seems determined to make sure he doesn't have another Benghazi.

    • Aug. 10, 2013
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    N.H. Korean War veterans to be honored

    Sixty-two residents of the New Hampshire Veterans Home are being recognized for their service in the Korean War.

    • Aug. 10, 2013
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    Led by Heather Gray, widow of Maj. Walter Gray, the DG140 group starts the final leg of a march from Dover Air Force Base, Del., to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 8, the one-year anniversary of Gray's death. Colin Kelly / staff

    TACPs march to remember leader 1 year after his death

    On Aug. 8, one year after Maj. Walter David 'DG' Gray died in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber attacked his vehicle, 13 of his men finished a 140-mile ruck march from Dover Air Force Base, Del., to Arlington National Cemetery to honor him.

    • Aug. 9, 2013
  12. Military pay to be exempt from sequestration in 2014

    Troops' pay will continue to be exempted from the budget cuts known as sequestration during fiscal 2014.

    • Aug. 9, 2013
  13. 5 MTIs spared discharges at trial are now out of AF

    Five former military training instructors sentenced to jail time but spared a punitive discharge in a series of courts-martial at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are no longer in the Air Force.

    • Aug. 9, 2013
  14. Yemen: 7 Saudis among militants killed by drones

    At least seven suspected militants from Saudi Arabia were among the alleged al-Qaida members killed in Yemen in a recent wave of U.S.

    • Aug. 9, 2013
  15. Air Force: Faulty wire brought down F-22

    A charged electrical wire brought down an F-22 last November at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., destroying the stealth fighter while the pilot ejected safely, according to an Air Force investigation into the crash.

    • Aug. 9, 2013
  16. How will Affordable Care Act affect veterans? New VA website has answers

    The Veterans Affairs Department has launched a new website explaining the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act on former troops and their families.

    • Aug. 9, 2013
  17. Former Marine accused of defrauding troops, veterans

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has shut down a former Marine's investment operation, alleging he defrauded active-duty members, veterans and others, spending their money on, among other things, rent for a $10,000-a-month Hollywood mansion, a luxur

    • Aug. 9, 2013

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