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US Air Force Launches One Of The Most-Generous Sabbatical Programs Ever
The Air Force plans to launch a pilot program later this year that would allow female and male airmen to leave active-duty to start a family and return three years later, Air Force Times...
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Military Advisor On 'Godzilla' Explains Why Red Flares Are Used To Combat The...
"Godzilla" opened in theaters late Thursday evening.If you've seen the trailers, you know one of the coolest parts is a skydiving sequence, showing members of the military paratrooping from a plane in...
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Stunning Photo Shows Variants Of The F-35 Flying Together For The First Time
A nice aerial photo lets you compare the shape and size of the three variants of the F-35 Lightning II multi-role aircraft flying together for the first time.From right to left, 2x F-35A CTOL...
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Why Nigeria’s Giant Military Is No Match For Boko Haram
There was a time not so long ago when a mutiny by Nigerian soldiers invariably led to bloodshed, arrests and a new government in Lagos.On Wednesday, when army troops launched an unsuccessful attempt to...
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Stranded In Open Ocean For 5 Days — The Survivor Of The Worst US Navy...
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II was the single greatest loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. Out of a crew of 1,196 sailors, 300...
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As VA Scandal Heats Up, No One Is Impressed With Resignation Of Official Who...
The resignation of a top Veterans Affairs official who was scheduled to retire anyway has been scoffed at by lawmakers and veterans groups who want greater consequences for a scandal at veterans...
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Where Terror Group Boko Haram Gets Its Cash
Just over a year ago, armed men on motorcycles entered a national park in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, and swiftly abducted a family of vacationing French tourists -- a husband and wife and...
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Most Of Southern California's Largest Marine Corps Base Evacuated As Fires...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marine Corps officials say all nonessential staff have been ordered to leave Camp Pendleton because of a third wildfire that has ignited on the base.The Marines say the new blaze...
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Thailand Is A Powder Keg Of Instability
With Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s ousting at the hands of the Thai Supreme Court on May 7th, Thailand’s political paralysis is set to restart. The anti-government Yellow Shirts have welcomed...
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Chechen Militants Are Now Spreading Chaos In Ukraine
Dozen of Chechens are now reportedly fighting alongside pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine in at attempt to cause further instability, Courtney Weaver of the Financial Times reports. The...
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Here's What Donetsk Is Like After The Deadliest Battle Of The Ukraine Crisis
An uneasy calm appears to have returned to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, one day after dozens of pro-Russian separatist militants were reported killed in fighting with government forces....
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Separatists In East Ukraine City Ask For Moscow's Help Amid Fierce Gun Battles
Relative calm returned to the streets of Donetsk on Wednesday after the biggest battle of the pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine, a conflict transformed by the landslide election of a...
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Russia's Pullback From The Ukrainian Border Exposes Its Army's Dependence On...
The recent slow withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian border could have less to do with a lessening of tensions than it does with the Russian military's reliance upon conscription. Russian...
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Putin's Invitation To A World War II Ceremony Has Western Leaders Freaking Out
Whatever one thinks of Vladimir Putin, he does not lack for moxie.Prince Charles may be under fire for speaking candidly about the Russian leader —comparing Putin’s seizing of Crimea to tactics Adolf...
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Dysfunction At The VA Is Fueling A Growing Drug Problem Among Veterans
An Amtrak train is a terrible place to shoot dope. My seat mate tells me this after the train jerks, causing his syringe to slip from his vein. I take his word for it.Jarek Camac and I are on our way...
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Ukraine Rebels And 'Volunteers From Russia' Downed An Army Helicopter,...
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army helicopter on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers including a general, as government forces pressed ahead with an offensive to...
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Putin Advisor: The US Is 'Unfurling A War In Ukraine After Organizing A Coup'
ASTANA (Reuters) - An outspoken Kremlin adviser accused the United States on Thursday of trying to stoke a military conflict between Russia and European nations over Ukraine for its own economic...
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The Hazing Epidemic That's Holding Back Russia's Military
Russia's attempts at growing and reforming its armed forces have floundered due in large part to the brutal nature of life in the Russian military — something that's held back the army's modernization...
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Pro-Russian Rebel Factions Are Now Fighting Each Other In Donetsk
Ukraine's rebel movement was plunged into crisis on Thursday, when pro-Russian fighters backed by armoured personnel carriers seized the movement's headquarters in Donetsk and destroyed the barricades...
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This Chart Shows The Astounding Devastation Of World War II
The truly enormous scope of World War II is almost impossible to understand in hindsight. The war devastated vast swathes of Europe, East Asia, the Pacific, and North Africa, while its influence...
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