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BEARDS ARE BACK: US Military To Relax Uniform Standards For Religious Reasons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon took steps on Wednesday to give individual troops greater latitude to wear turbans, head scarfs, yarmulkes and other religious clothing with their uniforms, but...
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PENTAGON: The F-35 Program Still Has 'Unacceptable' Problems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. Defense Department report warns that ongoing software, maintenance and reliability problems with Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 stealth fighter could delay the Marine...
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Russia Admits It Needs US Military Experience To Secure Sochi From Bombs
The 2014 Sochi Olympics are two weeks away and the Russian government is looking to the U.S. for guidance in detecting and disarming Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), reports Military.com.Russia...
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New DC Missile Defense Blimps Can Also Monitor Your Every Move
Later this year, two blimps will float 10,000 feet over the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland as a new defense system for the nation's capital, reports CBS News.Known as JLENS, or Joint Land...
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Germany Plans To Expand Military Presence In Africa
Germany's new defence minister said Sunday her country should engage more strongly in Africa by sending additional military trainers to Mali and supporting the French intervention in Central African...
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Mitsubishi May Soon Become The First Japanese Manufacturer To Supply A Global...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is in advanced talks to supply parts for the F-35 stealth fighter to Britain's BAE Systems, in what would be the first involvement of a Japanese...
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Were America’s Nuclear Codes Set To Zero? Looks Like It, And Worse
A quick recap:A few weeks ago, I reacted to a story that’s been going around for years: that the launch code for the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) force was set to “00000000″ until...
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America’s Missile Defense System Could Be As Useless As The Maginot Line
It was a multi-billion dollar technological masterpiece of military engineering.Each battery was equipped with air conditioned personal quarters, a sophisticated fire control communication network,...
View ArticleThis Robotic 'Terminator' Hand Is The Realest Prosthetic We've Seen Yet
A recent video posted to LiveLeak shows a man, who lost his right hand in a car accident last year, with a Touch Bionics i-limb ultra prosthetic hand. In the video (around 0:15), the man explains how...
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This Hair-Raising Brake Test For A Battle Tank Should Get Someone Fired
These folks in the Netherlands must be crazy.Approximately 20 or so people acted as the suicide finish line for a Leopard tank's brake test.To be clear, the Leopard weighs 60 tons and travels at 45 mph...
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Indian Pilot Lands Fighter Jet Successfully Amid Complete Electric Failure —...
Within a 2-month period, Indian Air Force Wing Commander Aditya Prakash Singh survived two major technical glitches in a fighter jet — in the pitch darkness of night, according to The Times of...
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Army General Scolded For Email Joking About Masturbating To 'Smoking Hot'...
Army Brigadier General Martin P. Schweitzer received a "memoranda of concern" following a lurid set of emails between him and another general, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post....
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Edward Snowden Fails 3 Elementary Tests For Justifying Whistleblowing
Economist senior editor Edward Lucas makes a strong argument against calling Edward Snowden a whistleblower in his new ebook, "The Snowden Operation."As Lucas points out, much of what Snowden disclosed...
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Air Force Flies One Of The Last A-10 Warthog Missions
On Dec. 30, 2013, Arkansas Air National Guard’s 188th Fighter Wing at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith, Ark. flew one of the very last four-ship missions with theA-10C Thunderbolt...
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First Woman In Naval History Set To Receive 4th Star
Later this year, Vice Admiral Michelle Howard will become the first woman to earn the Navy's four-star admiral rank. Her assignment as the Navy's second in command, vice chief of naval operations,...
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The NSA's First Privacy Officer Is A Woman
The National Security Agency just announced its first privacy officer, reports The Washington Post.Former Department of Homeland Security Privacy Director, Rebecca “Becky” Richards will start with NSA...
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Budget Constraints Lead To Debate Over Robots Fighting In Battle
The coming wave of robot workers isn't just a threat to burger-flippers and assembly-line workers, human replacements are also the focus of generals looking to come under budget.The idea of robots...
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Cory Remsburg, The War Hero Obama Honored During The State Of The Union, Has...
During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama recognized a U.S. Army Ranger who has been fighting to recover after a roadside bomb nearly killed him in Afghanistan.Sgt....
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The 'Snowden Can't Get A Fair Trial' Defense Misses The Point
As the media circus surrounding the fate of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden continues unabated, a growing list of pundits and lawmakers (including President Obama) have...
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Nurses At $600,000 Afghan Hospital Forced To Bathe Newborns In Untreated...
A recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found a $600,000 Salang hospital without running water, where nurses literally had to wash newborn infants in...
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