Amazing Amateur Video Shows How Military Air Crew Sees Life Above Foreign Lands
The KC-130 has been the airborne workhorse of military operations for 50 years — and the crews that run them have been a godsend for troops on the ground. They deliver supplies, reinforcements, and...
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Famous People You Never Knew Served In The Military [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Why Is The US Building Spending Hundreds Of Millions On These Secret Israeli...
Last year it was announced the U.S. was looking to build a secret underground complex in Israel. On February 13 a contract was awarded to Conti Corp Federal Services in Edison, NJ to complete the...
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Pentagon Report: Cyber Attack Could Turn US Weapons Against America
When former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta referred to Pearl Harbor in terms of Cyber Attacks on U.S. soil, he was being a master of understatement.A report from the Defense Science Board bluntly tells...
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DEAR AMERICA: Things Are Falling Apart In Egypt
I have been in correspondence with a thirty-something college-educated woman who lives in Cairo with her family.I've had her identity independently verified. Until now, she was reluctant to have her...
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Soldier Smuggled $1 Million From Afghanistan, Got Plastic Surgery And 18-Wheeler
A former Army Staff Sgt. at Fort Bragg was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for smuggling over $1 million out of Afghanistan, according to a report from the Fayetteville Observer.Along with an...
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The UN Eased Its Weapons Embargo To Somalia
The UN Security Council on Wednesday eased the arms embargo on Somalia, agreeing on a one year partial lifting of the oldest international weapons blockade to help the new government.The 15-member...
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Obama's Attorney General Says Drones Can Kill Americans On US Soil
Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter Tuesday that Obama administration believes it could "hypothetically" carry out drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil, but "has no intention of doing...
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Syrian Rebels Are Holding UN Observers Hostage In The Golan Heights
Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights have captured a convoy of UN trucks and are demanding that Bashar al-Assad's forces to leave the area, James Miller of EA WorldView reports.Reuters reports the UN has...
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Investigation Reveals Direct Pentagon Link To Torture Centers In Iraq
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq, that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from...
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GOOGLE: US Government Spying Has Risen 122 Percent Since 2009 (GOOG)
Google released a transparency report Tuesday, revealing that they've received a number of so-called National Security Letters— official government requests for data under the Patriot Act, passed after...
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Harvard Professor Details His Radical Vision Of Legalizing All Drugs
In 2010 we wrote about Harvard economics professor Jeffrey Miron's stance that all drugs should be legalized because prohibition wastes money and doesn't work.In a recent in-depth interview with Der...
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Former TSA Chief Is Advocating 'Battle Axes, Machetes' Being Brought On...
In the wake of TSA policy changes loosening restrictions on small knives, bats, and golf clubs carried onto airplanes, the former head of the security agency is advocating for battle axes and machetes...
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Troops Explain What Defense Cuts Look Like To Them
With elaborate projects flying high above defense cuts, it's become tough to get a feel for what's going on within individual military units. The following replies to what troops see in their daily...
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This Is The US Missile No Ship Will See Coming Until It's Too Late
The U.S. Navy has this problem where sinking a ship far away requires all manner of mathematical genius, and extraordinary luck, that really does no more than illuminate its limited strike reach in the...
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The Bush Administration Answered Rand Paul's Question About Killing Americans...
Rand Paul filibustered the Senate confirmation vote of CIA Director nominee John Brennan for nearly 13 hours to get the White House to answer one question: "Do you believe that the president has the...
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World's Most Powerful Frenemies Come Together For Joint Naval Exercises
The United States and China recently kicked off a joint counter-piracy naval exercise near Pakistan in what is quickly becoming the most bizarre relationship between two nations in recent history.The...
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Syria Claims It Found Israeli Spying Devices Disguised As Rocks
Syria's state-run news agency claims that Israeli spying devices have been found in the country's coastal region, according to The Associated Press.SANA's report says the devices — some of which look...
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Attorney General Sends Brief And Snarky Letter To Rand Paul
President Barack Obama's Attorney General sent a crisp missive to Rand Paul Thursday, responding to the Kentucky Republican's filibuster to block John Brennan's nomination for CIA director, over the...
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How Drones Could Blow The War On Terror
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Afghanistan and elsewhere has risen substantially in the past decade, with drones carrying out 95 percent of targeted killings since 9/11, according to one...
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