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  1. Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), disembark their plane after landing Feb. 2 at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania. The air assault soldiers represented the first wave of passengers to transit through MK Air Base en route to a mission in Southwest Asia.

    Transit center ferries troops to, from Afghanistan

    Almost a year of complex coordination came down to a frenetic final month at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, where hundreds of soldiers and airmen worked to complete a transit hub by Feb. 1 to carry the U.S.

  1. DoD issues new threat report on North Korea

  2. Army 1-star's accuser was ambitious soldier, too

  1. White House pushes back on GOP assault on Obama on Crimea

  2. Afghan VP, ex-Northern alliance commander, dies

  3. Navy ship, P-3C Orion join search for missing Malaysia flight

  4. Russia reinforces military presence in Crimea

  5. MARSOC operators rotate into Guam to train with SEALs

  6. Troops in key posts may be rechecked for sex offenses

  7. Obama's warnings brushed aside by Russia's Putin

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  1. The Army is finalizing a pamphlet that will educate soldiers on the new rules. David Goldman/AP

    Army secretary approves new grooming, uniform regs

    Army Secretary John McHugh on Thursday approved a long-awaited revision to grooming and uniform regulations, according to an Army statement.

    • Mar. 7, 2014
  2. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair pleaded guilty Thursday to three charges that could send him to prison for up to 15 years. He still faces five other charges stemming from the claims of a female captain nearly 20 years his junior who says the general twice forced her to perform oral sex. James Robinson / AP via The Fayetteville Observer

    Sinclair accuser takes stand in general's sex assault case

    On the verge of tears, the captain whose sexual assault accusations triggered the prosecution of an Army general took to the witness stand Friday, testifying that the two had frequent trysts and that she thought her commander's wife knew about her.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  3. Pentagon: No formal proposal for retirement overhaul until 2015

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wants to wait until next year before asking Congress to make fundamental changes to the current military retirement system, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  4. Readers: Don't mess with retirement pay

    The Pentagon's proposal to reduce the size of the pension checks military retirees receive in return for other new cash incentives drew swift condemnation online as people took to the Military Times Facebook pages to vent.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  5. Federal court allows burn-pit lawsuit to advance

    A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a collection of lawsuits over the use of open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, a decision that allows the litigation against contracting giant KBR to continue.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  6. Post-9/11 vet unemployment rate jumps to 9.2 percent

    The unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans jumped in February, nearly erasing the gains of a few months ago, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  7. More military consumers cite aggressive debt collection

    Debt collection is emerging as a big issue for service members and veterans, according to data released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on March 6.

    • Mar. 7, 2014
    • NEWS /

    Researchers link Iraq dust with some vets' lung problems

    Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have coined the term 'Iraq-Afghanistan war lung injury' to describe respiratory symptoms developed by some veterans — and they have duplicated the problem in mice, using dust from Camp Victory in Baghdad.

    • Mar. 7, 2014
    • NEWS /

    Lawsuits revived by soldiers over burn pits

    A federal appeals court on Thursday revived dozens of lawsuits by soldiers and others who claim they were harmed by improper waste disposal while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  10. Russia, Crimean politicians discuss referendum

    Crimea would be welcome as an equal part of Russia if the region votes to leave Ukraine in an upcoming referendum, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament said Friday.

    • Mar. 7, 2014

  11. Exclusive: DoD proposes revolutionary changes in retirement benefits

    After years of silence on the intensely controversial issue of military retirement reform, the Pentagon on Thursday unveiled a detailed proposal for fundamental, far-reaching changes to the current pension system, Military Times has learned.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  12. President Obama finishes a March 6 press conference about the situation in Ukraineat the White House. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

    Obama: West won't let Kremlin carve up Ukraine

    President Obama ordered the West's first sanctions in response to Russia's military takeover of Crimea on Thursday, declaring his determination not to let the Kremlin carve up Ukraine.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  13. Soldiers train with a field artillery howitzer at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, last year. Women will now join field artillery units, down to the platoon level, as the Army opens thousands of jobs to them. Army

    Army opens all field artillery officer jobs to women

    Virtually all Regular Army, National Guard and Army Reserve positions coded for field artillery officers have been opened to women under a directive issued by Army Secretary John McHugh.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  14. Lt. Col. Joseph 'Jay' Morse The Associated Press

    Army sex assault prosecutor suspended over alleged assault

    A lieutenant colonel who supervises sexual assault prosecution in the Army is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a female colleague, sources have confirmed.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
    • NEWS /
    Marines with Security Force Assistance Advisor Team 2-215 look out over the Sangin Valley Jan. 27 during an operation near Forward Operating Base Nolay, Afghanistan. Cpl. Joshua Young / Marine Corps

    Generals shed light on reports Afghan forces surrendered turf in Sangin

    The former top commanders of NATO troops in southwestern Afghanistan have shed light on troubling reports that emerged late last year in Sangin, a hard-fought district in Helmand province where Afghan security forces purportedly handed over security check

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  16. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. pauses while speakig at a March 6 news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington following a Senate vote on military sexual assaults. The Senate blocked a bill that would have stripped senior military commanders of their authority to prosecute rapes and other serious offenses, capping an emotional, nearly yearlong fight over how best to curb sexual assault in the ranks. Charles Dharapak / AP

    Senate blocks change to military sex assault cases

    The Senate on Thursday rejected a proposal to move sexual assault cases outside the military chain of command, instead backing simpler reforms to the military justice system.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  17. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair pleaded guilty Thursday to three charges that could send him to prison for up to 15 years. He still faces five other charges stemming from the claims of a female captain nearly 20 years his junior who says the general twice forced her to perform oral sex. James Robinson / AP via The Fayetteville Observer

    General admits guilt on 3 counts; denies assault

    In his immaculate blue dress uniform, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair stood ramrod straight before a judge Thursday and pleaded guilty to three charges that could send him to prison for up to 15 years.

    • Mar. 6, 2014

  18. Senators seek IDs of 21 sailors killed at Pearl Harbor

    The remains of 21 sailors killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor and buried as unknowns should be identified and returned to their families, a group of U.S. senators said Thursday.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  19. People waving Russian flags gather Thursday to hear the announcement confirming that the Sevastopol regional council supported the vote for Crimea to secede from Ukraine and join Russia in Sevastopol, Ukraine. The initiative includes a request to the Russian Duma to accept Crimea into Russia and sets March 16 as a new date for a Crimean referendum on the issue. Sean Gallup / Getty Images

    Crimean lawmakers votes to join Russia

    Ukraine lurched toward breakup Thursday when lawmakers in Crimea unanimously declared they wanted to join Russia and would put the decision to voters in 10 days — and Russian lawmakers pushed a bill to facilitate a handover.

    • Mar. 6, 2014

  20. DoD: Give reservists immediate retirement pay

    Reservists would be eligible to begin receiving military retirement pay immediately after completing 20 years of part-time service under a new Pentagon proposal for overhauling the retirement system.

    • Mar. 6, 2014

  21. Proposal would revamp Survivor Benefit Program

    A Defense Department proposal to revamp its Survivor Benefit Program would save money by increasing the premium that retirees pay for coverage.

    • Mar. 6, 2014

  22. Disability pay: simpler, broader, more generous

    The Pentagon's new retirement reform proposal would make sweeping changes to the complex system of benefits that aim to compensate wounded warriors for injuries that cut short a military career.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
    • NEWS /
    An image made from a Jan. 2012 video showing Marine scout snipers urinating on dead Taliban. A breakdown in leadership and discipline contributed to the June 2011 incident in Afghanistan, according to an investigative report released this week. AP

    Investigative report details Marine Corps' findings in scout sniper urination case

    A breakdown in leadership and discipline contributed to an elite team of Marine snipers urinating on the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan in June 2011, according to an investigative report released this week.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
    • NEWS /

    DoD plans no cuts to spouse tuition program, official says

    Many troops and families may be worried about the future of family support and community programs, but one program that isn't suffering from budget woes is the military spouse tuition program — Military Spouse Career Advancement Account, or MyCAA.

    • Mar. 6, 2014
  25. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a March 4 news conference outside Moscow. A Pentagon research team is studying the body movements of world leaders to better predict their actions and guide U.S. policy. Alexey Nikolsky / Getty Images

    Pentagon studies Putin body language for hint of intent

    A Pentagon research team is studying the body movements of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders to better predict their actions and guide U.S. policy, Pentagon documents and interviews show.

    • Mar. 6, 2014

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