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Changes affect all ranked below E-5

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E-4, below barred from standing armed watch
NORFOLK, Va. — Sailors below E-5 are temporarily barred from standing armed watches aboard Atlantic Fleet surface ships, and chiefs and up must monitor crew-served weapons...
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U.S. troops help repel attack on Iraqi facility
BAGHDAD — Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, U.S. troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12...

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