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Shinseki promises help for homeless veterans
Shinseki promises help for homeless veterans
WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki on Tuesday unveiled a plan to end veterans’ homelessness in five years, saying that without action the improvements of recent years could be lost because of the bad economy.
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  • Most U.S. youths unfit to serve, data show
    U.S. military-age youth are increasingly unfit to serve — mostly because they’re in such lousy shape.
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 20:29:14 EST
  • Families outraged over engagement restrictions
    Enough is enough. Retired 1st Sgt. John Bernard has had it with the war in Afghanistan.
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 20:31:39 EST
  • Coburn named as senator holding up vets bill
    Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined forces to try to force one senator — Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release a hold that he has placed on a major veterans...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 17:23:29 EST
  • Few details yet on deadly mid-air collision
    As the Coast Guard plans a Friday memorial service, officials are offering few details on the possible causes for a mid-air collision between the service’s C-130 Hercules transport plane and a...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 17:14:07 EST
  • Top AF CIA officer tapped to command USAFE
    Gen. Roger Brady, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, will retire early next year and be replaced by Lt. Gen. Mark Welsh III, the Air Force has announced.
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 17:08:40 EST
  • House passes bill to expand SCRA rights
    An omnibus veterans bill, which includes an expansion of Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act protections and allows parents to be buried in veterans cemeteries if their military sons or daughters...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 16:06:08 EST
  • National parks free for everyone Nov. 11
    Anyone visiting national parks, refuges and other public recreation areas on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, will pay no entrance fees, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today.
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 15:49:17 EST
  • Obama declares Military Family Month
    For 14 years, the Armed Forces YMCA and others have celebrated November as Military Family Month. Now, President Barack Obama has made it official throughout the country — at least for this...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 14:09:03 EST
  • Boeing backers press Obama on tanker contract
    WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who support Boeing in its bid for a $35 billion tanker contract want President Barack Obama to force the Air Force to include a recent World Trade...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 12:22:32 EST
  • Amphib built with WTC steel arrives in New York
    NEW YORK — The new Navy amphibious transport dock New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a rifle volley salute near the site of the 2001...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 17:14:51 EST
  • Reservist arrested for stalking Ryan Seacrest
    Ryan Seacrest’s alleged stalker is an Army Reservist, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nathan Banks confirmed Monday.
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 11:09:58 EST
  • Congress extends residency benefits to spouses
    WASHINGTON — Congress on Monday sent President Barack Obama a bill that allows military spouses to claim residency in the same state as their wives or husbands.
    Posted Monday Nov 2, 2009 17:12:58 EST
  • GAO sees challenges in Iraq withdrawal
    The ongoing withdrawal of U.S. troops and equipment from Iraq is on or ahead of schedule but faces six “crucial challenges” that must be overcome in order to meet agreed-upon timelines,...
    Posted Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 15:20:38 EST
  • Inquiry seeks cause of mid-air collision
    LOS ANGELES — With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell Monday on what caused a Marine Corps...
    Posted Monday Nov 2, 2009 20:21:32 EST
  • Election commission declares Karzai winner
    KABUL — Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country's tumultuous ballot Monday, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political...
    Posted Monday Nov 2, 2009 19:40:59 EST
  • Online lottery for White House tree lighting
    It’s been a Washington tradition for years. People line up in the cold on a designated day to get the coveted tickets to the National Christmas Tree...
    Posted Monday Nov 2, 2009 10:52:21 EST
  • Group collects gowns for soldiers’ wives
    MOBILE, Ala. — Mary Burnett has been writing letters to deployed troops for more than four years.
    Posted Monday Nov 2, 2009 6:49:06 EST
  • White House: Afghan decision in coming weeks
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is still weeks away from deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said Sunday amid pressure from lawmakers to settle on a war...
    Posted Sunday Nov 1, 2009 13:18:59 EST
  • 2 dead, including American, in Afghanistan
    KABUL — The U.S. military says insurgents have killed two members of the international force in Afghanistan in bomb attacks.
    Posted Sunday Nov 1, 2009 11:08:06 EST
  • KBR needs to cut Iraq work force, audit says
    WASHINGTON — Pentagon auditors are warning the Army’s primary support contractor in Iraq, responsible for everything from mail and laundry to housing and meals, to cut its work force...
    Posted Sunday Nov 1, 2009 10:58:43 EST
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