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Alleged Torturers (CACI) sue Abu Ghraib Torture Victims (Lazare) 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1790

Air Force nuclear unit fails security test 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1905

Enough Of this Bullshit 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2053

US Arms Industry Would Lose Big from Egypt Aid Cut-Off 6 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 11 3510

It’s not about Democracy: Top Ten Reasons Washington is Reluctant to cut off Egypt Aid 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 4 1877

Sordid details spill out in rare court-martial of a general on sex charges 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2460

DON’T SAY ‘DRONES,’ Beg Drone Makers 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2122

Northrop Builds Rental Drones For Air Force, Customs Training 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1704

Elecrocuted Solider Suit Revived Against KBR 1 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 9 1957

Analysts: Cutting aircraft carriers a real possibility 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2233

Fact Sheet: The Obama Administration’s Work to Honor Our Military Families and Veterans 3 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2009

President Obama and the First Lady address the Disabled American Veterans National Convention 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1863

Yemenis call U.S. drone strikes an overreaction to al Qaida threat 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1849

Give Us Our Flag! 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 14 2583

President Obama to address convention of disabled veterans 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1589

Courthouse, Prescott, Arizona 3 Ptah Aug 2013 Aug 2013 12 2231

Obama signs bill easing airport screening for vets 2 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1983

Full jury seated in Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's sexual assault case 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2291

President Obama Says Korean War Veterans ‘Deserve Better’ 3 Tx4obama Jul 2013 Aug 2013 3 2070

Navy abandons plan to fix nuclear sub burned in Maine 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1803

Will Boeing's Tanker Destroy Lockheed Martin's F-35? 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2472

Half of potential jurors dismissed as jury selection resumes in Brig. Gen. Sinclair's court-martial 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2525

Navy Vets Say They Suffer From Agent Orange 0 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1708

Bagram: Torture, Detention Without End at US Military's 'Other Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1754

The U.S.’s octogenarian Nazis problem looks a lot like its Guantanamo prisoners problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1842

In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1643

U.S. plans to monitor Afghanistan relief projects remotely 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1674

Fleet hosting talk on use of drones 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1736

Pentagon considers scrapping costly F-35 jet program 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2777

Ash Carter Orders OSD Agency Cuts ASAP 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1815

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No, says State Dept., Drone Attacks in Pakistan Will Not Be Ending 'Very, Very Soon' 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1748

60 U.S. military members fired in Pentagon sexual assault review 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1804

Now President Obama has to rebuild the VA system that Bush destroyed. 3 Major Hogwash Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2250

Pentagon downplays prospects of cancelling F-35, bomber 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1813

Military considers cutting 25% of Army personnel, Marines to trim budget for sequester 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 6 2900

WWII Photo Reconnaissance Pilot Reacts to Footage of Himself from 1944 4 progressoid Jul 2013 Jul 2013 7 2800

The Costly Failure of Missile Defense 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1774

WTF??? Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified 24 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 52 6534

Design As We Go Fails (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2413

Italy Begins F-35 Assembly; Dutch Store Their First Two Jets 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2290

Marines Will Sacrifice Everything But ACV & Readiness To Sequester; Marine Personnel Carrier Dropped 5 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 1 2830

Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2560

Veterans Kept as Guinea Pigs to Get Some Relief 3 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 17 3439

Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1733

Afghanistan Reconstruction: U.S. Soldiers At Risk Because Of Private Contractors' Fraud, SIGAR Warns 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1922

4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2614

Report questions costs of mansions for the military's top brass 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1917

Gen. Hayden’s Glass House 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1755

Makers of Agent Orange followed formula dictated by U.S. government (Dow & Monsanto) 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 10 1747

As parents die, Vietnamese worry who’ll care for Agent Orange disabled 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 4 1664

FAA tells Colorado residents not to shoot at drones or risk fines, jail 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 3 2537

US Drone Operator says, ‘I became a sociopath’, regrets 1626 Killings (Lest we forget) 12 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 26 3779

Colorado Town Poised to be First to Issue Drone Hunting License 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2376

Navy carrier drone program to cost billions 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2429

Army relieves Fort Jackson general of command 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2280

Suicide among US veterans 22 per day, 3 times national rate: Report 2 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2379

XO of riverine squadron fired after 2 boats grounded 0 tinymontgomery Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1640

Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc 43 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 114 11744

Somebody's Getting Ripped Off 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1972

Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector 0 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1669

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Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2428

Will the Pentagon Talk to the VA? 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1797

Obama's 'zero option' on AfPak is viable 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1679

HII Awarded $745 Million Contract to Inactivate USS Enterprise 6 Angleae Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 3096

Troops allegedly misled by car loan program to get refunds 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1899

Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1804

Pentagon propaganda efforts continue 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2163

Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Says 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2136

Watchdog warns of waste in Afghan aircraft buy 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1696

Kyrgyzstan ends US lease of Manas airbase 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1754

AEI & Heritage Target Rebuilding GOP Views On ‘Common Defense’ 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1997

Foreign Arms Sales, Sequestration And The Future of Aerospace Companies 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1836

DoD Aviation Plan Ignores Sequestration; Rep. Forbes Warily Watches F-18, F-35 Balance 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2265

Abu Ghraib case against CACI dismissed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1649

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers file motions at court-martial claiming unlawful command influe 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2180

Diplomats, defence officials posted abroad told to call scathing F-35 report a ‘bureaucratic’ issue, 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1699

Vt. F-35 opponents demonstrate noise 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1690

Italian minister defends F-35 jet purchase on eve of tense vote 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2170

Pakistan Premier Says Former Military Ruler Will Be Charged With Treason 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1948

In Debate Over Military Sexual Assault, Men Are Overlooked Victims 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2103

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