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Army officials on Thursday announced that they are closer to identifying the remains of soldiers who were misplaced at Arlington National Cemetery, according to reports information is still being confirmed for 62,000 burial sites. Officials also announced ...
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The Obama White House today announced that a deal to sell $30 billion dollars worth of advanced f-15 fighter jets to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been finalized. Obama has stated that the deal is meant ...
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In the five years leading up to the Barack Obama presidency the United States had launched 44 drone attacks, all of which were focused on Pakistan and which killed 400 people. Since taking the Oval office job ...
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In the early morning Sunday hours 110 armored trucks and other vehicles carrying more than 500 soldiers began a five-hour drive from Iraq to Kuwait down the main supply route previously referred to as Main Supply Route ...
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It's bad form to pose as a dead body in a casket, it's in extremely bad form to pose in that casket if it's the same type used to send the dead back from war and it's ...
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On Thursday afternoon Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will hold a quiet ceremony in Baghdad where he will formerly announce the withdrawal of American Troops just in time for the holidays.
Under a US-Iraq agreement U.S. troops were to ...
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U.S. officials have found the remains of 274 troops dumped in a Virginia landfill, more than the military originally acknowledged.
News of the dumped bodies was discovered at the pressing of the Washington Post at which time records from the Dover ...
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The United States Senate on Thursday passed a massive $662 billion defense spending bill that brings with it various sanctions, harsher treatment of suspected terrorists and more.
Under the bill the U.S. plans to issue crippling sanctions against ...
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Drones are big thing for today's military from the huge Predator flying drones to the dog-like pack drone being developed with the military. The use of drones seems almost unlimited and now the soldier in the field ...
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With the United States recently singing a new security agreement with Australia President Obama announced on Wednesday that the United States does not fear china.
News of the Australian security agreement comes at a time when many politicians ...
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Tom Harrison waited 66 years for the war medals he earned after being freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Second World War.
Earlier this month, the 93-year-old Utah veteran finally received his seven military ...
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The military sure seems to have a great big love affair with unmanned flight, or anything that has the word 'drone' attached to it, and that love affair just got a big boost today as Northrop Grumman's ...
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There isn't much said about it but it is well known in security circles that the Predator and Reaper drones used by the American military do have security flaws with the most well known one being that ...
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The internet reacts to Fourth of July/Independence Day celebrations across America.
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This montage, posted on YouTube, shows over 150 servicemembers singing The Star Spangled Banner in Iraq. Awwww.
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By now I am pretty sure that everyone is familiar with what night vision goggles look like, especially if you watch any movies or television shows that have a military action type theme; but there is a ...
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Forget your Call of Dutys and your Battlefields - the U.S. Army is preparing what should be the most realistic military videogame ever.
At $57 million, this new software has the kind of big bucks budget associated with ...
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Late last night I wrote about the secret helicopters used by the SEAL team in their raid to get Osama bin Laden and now this morning we get to find out about another really cool thing to do ...
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The U.S. raid to finally get Osama bin Laden; dead or alive, is going to be one of those historic moments we will all talk about for years to come. Opinion on whether to release the photos ...
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Wikileaks - the exposer of all things secret - has been in the news for a variety of reasons the past month or so starting with their appeal for help keeping the site open. No sooner than ...
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It is interesting that during all the hoopla surrounding the memo the brass of the Washington post sent to their troops about the use of Twitter and other social media services the US military ...
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Spotted this video on Gizmodo today and it was too cool to pass up. It shows James Mays flying 70,000 feet above the earths surface in the U2 Spy Plane courtesy of the United States Air Force.
The ...
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