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Navy carrier drone program to cost billions 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2484

Army relieves Fort Jackson general of command 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2326

Suicide among US veterans 22 per day, 3 times national rate: Report 2 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2457

XO of riverine squadron fired after 2 boats grounded 0 tinymontgomery Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1692

Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc 43 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 114 12131

Somebody's Getting Ripped Off 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2023

Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector 0 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1717

Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2504

Will the Pentagon Talk to the VA? 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1842

Obama's 'zero option' on AfPak is viable 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1717

HII Awarded $745 Million Contract to Inactivate USS Enterprise 6 Angleae Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 3207

Troops allegedly misled by car loan program to get refunds 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1954

Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1847

Pentagon propaganda efforts continue 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2203

Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Says 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2183

Watchdog warns of waste in Afghan aircraft buy 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1740

Kyrgyzstan ends US lease of Manas airbase 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1812

AEI & Heritage Target Rebuilding GOP Views On ‘Common Defense’ 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2052

Foreign Arms Sales, Sequestration And The Future of Aerospace Companies 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1904

DoD Aviation Plan Ignores Sequestration; Rep. Forbes Warily Watches F-18, F-35 Balance 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2324

Abu Ghraib case against CACI dismissed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1693

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers file motions at court-martial claiming unlawful command influe 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2233

Diplomats, defence officials posted abroad told to call scathing F-35 report a ‘bureaucratic’ issue, 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1751

Vt. F-35 opponents demonstrate noise 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1732

Italian minister defends F-35 jet purchase on eve of tense vote 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2227

Pakistan Premier Says Former Military Ruler Will Be Charged With Treason 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2019

In Debate Over Military Sexual Assault, Men Are Overlooked Victims 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2159

In Yemen, Most Al Qaeda can be Captured, but Killing is Easier 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2251

JP Morgan’s Man in the White House 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1763

Obama’s New Syria Strategy is Nixon’s Vietnam Negotiation Tactics Redux (Meyer) 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2258

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Anti-Drone Activists Stopped at U.S. Canadian Border due to "Orders of Protection" given to Commande 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2323

Air Force officer charged with rape and child molestation 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 3749

Barack Obama's Africa Trip Misses Military Mission Creep on Continent 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1829

F-35 costs kick up more controversy outside U.S. 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2450

Taliban spokesman: Removal of sign threatens talks 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1760

BAE Pushes Its T-X Bird At Paris Show; Gen. Welsh Tells DC ‘We’re On Track’ 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2106

Boeing Told to Repay After Charging $2,286 for $10 Part 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2051

Sen. Sessions: GOP Distrusts Obama, But We Might Backload Sequester 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2067

Top Official Admits F-35 Stealth Fighter Secrets Stolen 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2169

Stars of 2013 Paris Air Show: Russian Su-35; European Neuron UAV: NO Americans 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2388

F-22 program produces few planes, soaring costs 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2151

Scrapping equipment ($7 billion worth) key to Afghan drawdown 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2231

Boy’s death highlights anger some Yemenis feel over U.S. drone strikes 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1835

U.S. Afghanistan auditor tells of free-for-all as subcontractors demand money they’re owed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1925

No Lack of Weapons in Syria 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2103

THE TERROR DIASPORA: US spreads blowback nightmare 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1869

Three U.S. Naval Academy football players charged with raping unconscious woman 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2125

Democrats want to restore records of servicemembers discharged for being LGBT 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1842

When Drones Guard the Pipeline: The Militarization of Our Fossil Fuels 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1606

US-Taliban talks set to begin 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1640

Inspired by prayer, Virginia politician starts errant bedsheet drive for troops in Afghanistan 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1923

Get Out: Australia's Army Chief Is Evidently Not Cool With Sexual Assault 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1922

The Pentagon’s Preparations for War Against Us 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2198

Veterans' personal data from Fayetteville VA hospital found in recycling bin 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1825

How broke does the U.S. have to be to cut military spending? 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2623

Guantanamo hearing spirals into notebook safety debate 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1727

Australian military embroiled in fresh sexual harassment scandal 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2390

U.S. to keep military forces in Jordan: official 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1821

U.S. to provide ‘direct military support’ to Syrian rebels 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1807

There Are 108,000 Private Contractors in Afghanistan and the Pentagon Has No Idea What They're Doing 9 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2822

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The Secret War 12 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 17 4532

Congress grills NSA chief Keith Alexander about spying 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1827

Senate drops measure to curb sexual assault in the military 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1784

Veterans protest GOP limits on veterans tax credits, and Walker isn't happy 0 white cloud Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1875

Tet of 2013 Continues 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2698

New layer of secrecy emerges at Guantanamo court 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1889

Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif declares end to secret approval of U.S. drone strikes 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1982

Ted Rall Cartoon for June 11th, 2013: Flying Blind 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1919

DDG 51 Multiyear Procurement Contract Awarded 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1760

Taliban lay siege to NATO air base in Kabul in early morning assault 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2361

Congress, SecDef MUST Lead Pentagon From The Vale Of Seven Sins: CNAS 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2124

"I’ve Been Put in Prison for Opposing the War in Afghanistan" 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 6 2983

In Mistaken House Search, SWAT Team Rummages through Iraq Veteran's House and Shoots His Dog 4 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2278

Meet the Joint High Speed Vessel - JHSV 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2435

64 indicted in N. County auto theft rings 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2193

Tom Tomorrow on Obama's "Relationship Talk" with Drone Sweetie 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2319

What (sic) next for Duke Cunningham? 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2079

Pentagon May Be Wasting a Billion Dollars a Year in Erroneous Payments to Contractors 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1855

Our Distorted National Priorities 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1794

Making the hero pay: A Nation's Betrayal 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 1798

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