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    Biographer regrets affair with David Petraeus

    The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.

    • May. 24, 2013
  1. Tricare approves waivers for beneficiaries in tornado-affected Oklahoma

    Tricare is waiving required referrals for specialty care and emergency prescription refills for its beneficiaries in Oklahoma affected by the May 20 tornado.

    • May. 24, 2013
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    Bush hosts bike ride for combat veterans

    Former President George W. Bush is hosting a 100-kilometer mountain bike ride at his Central Texas ranch for military members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    • May. 24, 2013
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    Former major league pitcher Chris Ray pours one of his baseball-themed beers May 22 at The Diamond in Richmond, Va. The specialty brew will be sold at the Double AA minor league Richmond Flying Squirrels' baseball game May 23. The proceeds are given to military families. Joe Mahoney / The Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP

    Brewers team up on beer to help military families

    Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats.

    • May. 24, 2013
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    Destroyers to be named for MoH recipient, former SECNAV

    The two newest destroyers will be named for a highly decorated soldier-turned-senator and a former Navy secretary, the Navy's top civilian announced Thursday.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Panel rejects Pentagon's request for base closings

    A new round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    President Obama talks about national security May 23 at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

    Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones

    President Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Sons found dead; older brother arrested

    A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of his younger adopted brothers found him miles away with traces of blood on him, officials said.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Senator: West Point incident illustrates culture of sexual misconduct in military

    Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Thursday.

    • May. 23, 2013
  2. Lawmakers make pre-Memorial Day calls to fix vet claims backlog

    In a pre-Memorial Day push to show their concern about the backlog of veterans' disability claims, House Republicans are calling for an independent task force to recommend a solution while House Democrats pushed the idea of providing temporary benefits to

    • May. 23, 2013
  3. DoD acquisition chief Frank Kendall said the Pentagon will create its own electronic health record system using commercial software. Tom Pennington/Getty Images

    Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records

    The Defense Department is abandoning its plans to build a single, joint electronic health record system with the Veterans Affairs Department in favor of developing its own system using commercial software.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech

    President Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 91

    Former World War II Army squad leader and Medal of Honor recipient Vernon McGarity has died at 91.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Retired Army Lt. Col. Richard A. Lester, left, and Atlanta History Center President and CEO Sheffield Hale look over the Army seal May 13 at the nearly finished Veterans Park at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta. Jason Getz / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

    Battleground soil given place of honor in Atlanta

    It seemed like a mission impossible, but Richard A. Lester believed it could be done.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Woman gets prison in baby's shaking death at Quantico

    A Quantico woman was sentenced Thursday to 8 ˝ years in prison, far less than what was sought by prosecutors, for fatally shaking and fracturing the skull of a 9-month-old girl who had been left in her care.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Tinker airman, family narrowly escaped Okla. storm

    Picking through the debris of his tornado-demolished home Wednesday in Moore, Okla., Valparaiso native Jacob Schroeder hoped he might find things such as baby books, the computer with the family's stored pictures or his daughter's favorite stuffed toy.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Surplus military trucks get new lives

    They've served their country well. Getting parked in a nondescript dirt lot sure doesn't seem like much of a final resting place.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Cheers, shouts, thumbs up, 'V' signs and general jubilation shows in the expressions of the released POWs in March 1973 as their C-141 plane lifts off from Gia Lam Airport taking them to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Air Force via AP

    Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

    Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Soldier was target of brutal attack in London

    The British government's emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

    Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Lt. Col. James B. Conway Marine Corps

    Retired commandant's son handled dead insurgents after urination incident: NCIS documents

    The son of a retired Marine Corps commandant told military investigators he handled the bagged remains of dead insurgents urinated on by scout snipers in Afghanistan, contradicting assertions from senior officers that he had no contact with those Marines.

    • May. 22, 2013
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    McConnell, Pease and Altus chosen to host KC-46A tanker

    The two bases will be the first of 10 main operating bases for the new tanker

    • May. 22, 2013
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    Unmanned Global Hawks provide high-resolution intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery. Air Force leaders, however, say the Block 30 version of the plane won't be needed, because its capabilities don't measure up to those of the manned U-2. Staff Sgt. Timothy Jenkins/Air Force

    Lawmakers: Keep flying Global Hawk Block 30 through 2016

    Lawmakers want the Air Force to keep flying the unmanned RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 for another three years, despite the service's contention that the manned U-2 is better suited for intelligence gathering.

    • May. 22, 2013
  4. Army Reserve Capt. Ryan Hanna demonstrates leg exercises for a Bob Thomas Military Muscle workout at Gannett Government Media in Springfield, Va., on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (Mike Morones/Military Times) Mike Morones/Military Times

    4 leg exercises with little or no equipment

    You really can do leg exercises without the isolation-style or massive leg press machines found in most gyms. No more leg extension or leg curl machines. No need to find a leg abductor/adductor combo or hoist a 45-pound Olympic bar.

    • May. 22, 2013
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    The Triton unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif. Triton is specially designed to fly surveillance missions up to 24 hours at altitudes of more than 10 miles, allowing coverage out to 2,000 nautical miles. Bob Brown/Northrop Grumman via Navy

    Ocean recon UAV makes first flight

    An unmanned jet built for Navy high-altitude maritime surveillance missions has made its first flight May 22.

    • May. 22, 2013

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