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Nat Guard budget pinch 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1742

With the 25% cutbacks due to sequestration, is anyone worried 2 LiberalLoner Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2055

Our View: Make sure the ships work 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1799

Evidently Things Are Better Than The Dod Tells Us 5 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 4 2370

9/11 trial lawyer: CIA had its finger on Guantánamo’s mute button 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1814

Marines Put F-35B Flight Costs 17 Percent Lower Than OSD 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1695

Cost of F-35 stealth fighters could soon hit (Canadian) defence spending cap, report shows 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2350

The drone that may never have to land 2 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2093

Ted Rall: Crime and Punishment 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 4 1812

Japan-made parts to push up price of F-35 fighter jets for ASDF 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2589

Pentagon cuts F-35 operating estimate below $1 trillion: source 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1740

Navy disputes finding on ocean sonar 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1853

Alleged Torturers (CACI) sue Abu Ghraib Torture Victims (Lazare) 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2062

Air Force nuclear unit fails security test 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2119

Enough Of this Bullshit 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2264

US Arms Industry Would Lose Big from Egypt Aid Cut-Off 6 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 11 3922

It’s not about Democracy: Top Ten Reasons Washington is Reluctant to cut off Egypt Aid 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 4 2126

Sordid details spill out in rare court-martial of a general on sex charges 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2796

DON’T SAY ‘DRONES,’ Beg Drone Makers 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2445

Northrop Builds Rental Drones For Air Force, Customs Training 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1948

Elecrocuted Solider Suit Revived Against KBR 1 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 9 2154

Analysts: Cutting aircraft carriers a real possibility 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2530

Fact Sheet: The Obama Administration’s Work to Honor Our Military Families and Veterans 3 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2316

President Obama and the First Lady address the Disabled American Veterans National Convention 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2104

Yemenis call U.S. drone strikes an overreaction to al Qaida threat 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2066

Give Us Our Flag! 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 14 2843

President Obama to address convention of disabled veterans 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1828

Courthouse, Prescott, Arizona 3 Ptah Aug 2013 Aug 2013 12 2448

Obama signs bill easing airport screening for vets 2 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2252

Full jury seated in Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's sexual assault case 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2522

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President Obama Says Korean War Veterans ‘Deserve Better’ 3 Tx4obama Jul 2013 Aug 2013 3 2370

Navy abandons plan to fix nuclear sub burned in Maine 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2007

Will Boeing's Tanker Destroy Lockheed Martin's F-35? 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2658

Half of potential jurors dismissed as jury selection resumes in Brig. Gen. Sinclair's court-martial 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2733

Navy Vets Say They Suffer From Agent Orange 0 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1908

Bagram: Torture, Detention Without End at US Military's 'Other Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1938

The U.S.’s octogenarian Nazis problem looks a lot like its Guantanamo prisoners problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2070

In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1838

U.S. plans to monitor Afghanistan relief projects remotely 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1846

Fleet hosting talk on use of drones 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1921

Pentagon considers scrapping costly F-35 jet program 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 3072

Ash Carter Orders OSD Agency Cuts ASAP 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1995

No, says State Dept., Drone Attacks in Pakistan Will Not Be Ending 'Very, Very Soon' 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1993

60 U.S. military members fired in Pentagon sexual assault review 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1989

Now President Obama has to rebuild the VA system that Bush destroyed. 3 Major Hogwash Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2473

Pentagon downplays prospects of cancelling F-35, bomber 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1986

Military considers cutting 25% of Army personnel, Marines to trim budget for sequester 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 6 3219

WWII Photo Reconnaissance Pilot Reacts to Footage of Himself from 1944 4 progressoid Jul 2013 Jul 2013 7 3160

The Costly Failure of Missile Defense 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1961

WTF??? Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified 24 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 52 7907

Design As We Go Fails (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2694

Italy Begins F-35 Assembly; Dutch Store Their First Two Jets 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2537

Marines Will Sacrifice Everything But ACV & Readiness To Sequester; Marine Personnel Carrier Dropped 5 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 1 3229

Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2810

Veterans Kept as Guinea Pigs to Get Some Relief 3 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 17 3714

Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1925

Afghanistan Reconstruction: U.S. Soldiers At Risk Because Of Private Contractors' Fraud, SIGAR Warns 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2137

4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2934

Report questions costs of mansions for the military's top brass 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2153

Gen. Hayden’s Glass House 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1939

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Makers of Agent Orange followed formula dictated by U.S. government (Dow & Monsanto) 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 10 1918

As parents die, Vietnamese worry who’ll care for Agent Orange disabled 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 4 1841

FAA tells Colorado residents not to shoot at drones or risk fines, jail 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 3 2757

US Drone Operator says, ‘I became a sociopath’, regrets 1626 Killings (Lest we forget) 12 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 26 4431

Colorado Town Poised to be First to Issue Drone Hunting License 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2662

Navy carrier drone program to cost billions 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2653

Army relieves Fort Jackson general of command 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2500

Suicide among US veterans 22 per day, 3 times national rate: Report 2 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2709

XO of riverine squadron fired after 2 boats grounded 0 tinymontgomery Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1869

Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc 43 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 114 14291

Somebody's Getting Ripped Off 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2204

Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector 0 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1882

Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2714

Will the Pentagon Talk to the VA? 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2023

Obama's 'zero option' on AfPak is viable 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1855

HII Awarded $745 Million Contract to Inactivate USS Enterprise 6 Angleae Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 3614

Troops allegedly misled by car loan program to get refunds 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2147

Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1990

Pentagon propaganda efforts continue 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2349

Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Says 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2355

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