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"As I report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in Iraq. We are determined to knock out Saddam Hussein's nuclear bomb potential. We will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities. Much of Saddam's artillery and tanks will be destroyed. Our operations are designed to best protect the
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THIS JUST IN >>> A member of an elite Army helicopter unit was killed and two crew members suffered injuries when their aircraft slammed into the ground as they tried to land at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, a military spokesman said today. Read the full story here.
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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and 2011 Liberty Medal recipient Robert M. Gates has been all over the news. His latest book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War - a strikingly candid account of his experience serving as secretary of state under both President George W. Bush and President
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GRAB A CUP & AND READ THE MORINING REPORT FOR 1.15.14 >>> The Senate Intelligence Committee singled out Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of exhibiting poor leadership and insufficient planning in their report on the Sept. 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Lt. Gen.
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The mystique of what servicemembers do after deployment is no longer secret. And the activities have nothing to do with playing volleyball in jeans and T-shirts before jetting off in a hot-rod motorcycle to make out with Kelly McGillis. After traveling over so many time zones, servicemembers just want to sleep.
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Whether we owe it to Prometheus or the aliens who built the pyramids, somewhere deep in our reptilian brains there is a reflexive sense of awe that gets triggered when we are presented with a list of winners. Operation Homefront today announced the 155 semi-finalists - representing all five service
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GRAB A CUP & AND READ THE MORINING REPORT FOR 1.15.14 >>> About 200 Fort Bragg soldiers are scheduled to leave for Afghanistan Sunday. The soldiers will be the first wave of troops to deploy from the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment. An estimated 450 troops from the battalion will
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The U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) - also known as Night Stalkers - is a special operations force specializing in helicopter aviation support for general purpose forces and special operations forces. Its missions have included attack, assault, and reconnaissance, and are usually conducted at night, at high
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Arguably the most dysfunctional culture of the past few centuries, North Korea is a cosmically mad movie waiting to happen. In the meantime, FRONTLINE will go inside the Secret State of North Korea tonight. Using undercover footage smuggled out of the country, tonight's must-watch documentary delivers a rare and revelatory look at the
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Lt. Shane Osborn was on The Michael Smerconish Program on Sirius' POTUS Politics. Osborn is running for US Senate in Nebraska. The 2001 story of his crash with a Chinese military jet, and subsequent 12-day detention by the Chinese, is incredible. Read his story in the April 2001 issue of
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.14.14 >>> Congressional appropriators on Monday evening unveiled a massive federal spending bill that includes a full 2014 Pentagon appropriations measure that would provide nearly $93 billion to buy new weapons. The $571 billion Defense appropriations bill would reverse cuts to retirement pay
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.13.14 >>> Iran has agreed to start eliminating its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium beginning Jan. 20 under an interim deal announced in November. US Army wants to transform all nine of its Stryker brigades into the heavily armored "double V-hull"
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is leading the push to get Democrats to support sanctions on Iran, putting him at sharp odds with the White House on one of President Obama's top foreign policy priorities. Fighting between security forces and al-Qaida-linked militants in Iraq's Sunni-dominated Anbar province has killed at least 60
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THIS JUST IN >>> Governor Inslee is deeply saddened with the death of USMC Sgt. Jacob M. Hess, 22, of Spokane, and directs that Washington state and United States flags at all state agency facilities be lowered to half-staff in his memory Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. Hess died Jan. 1 in
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.10.14 >>> The lead American negotiator in talks over a long-term security agreement with Afghanistan has privately warned the Obama administration that its efforts to persuade President Hamid Karzai to sign the document on the U.S. timetable are likely to fail. There has
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It's been a question on everyone's mind since the very first NFL playoff game when the Chicago Bears faced off with the Portsmouth Spartans in 1932. Who's tougher? An Army soldier or an NFL football player? One is paid millions of dollars to play a game with tons of rules
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The Army is shutting down 14 warrior transition units in preparation for the drawdown in Afghanistan and a decline in the number of wounded troops. In place of the closed units, the Army will establish 13 "community care units," including one at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Read the Defense Department report here.
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Dear Brawny Man, We just want you to know that we have switched to your brand. We were Bounty fans for the longest time. Being in the media business, we are all about speed. The faster we can deliver the news, the better (thanks for the stress stupid Internet). Sometimes when
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WATCH IT LIVE >>> The Air Force's newest and most senior leader will hold a service-wide, online town hall meeting today at 3:30 p.m. EST, addressing issues relevant to today's airmen. Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James will answer questions from airmen at the Pentagon, and also speak to her
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.9.14 >>> Two crew members are dead and a third remains missing after the Wednesday-morning crash of a Norfolk, Va.-base MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia Beach. Officials are unable to say what caused the
