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Yemenis call U.S. drone strikes an overreaction to al Qaida threat 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1816

Give Us Our Flag! 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 14 2543

President Obama to address convention of disabled veterans 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1571

Courthouse, Prescott, Arizona 3 Ptah Aug 2013 Aug 2013 12 2205

Obama signs bill easing airport screening for vets 2 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1956

Full jury seated in Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's sexual assault case 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2277

President Obama Says Korean War Veterans ‘Deserve Better’ 3 Tx4obama Jul 2013 Aug 2013 3 2041

Navy abandons plan to fix nuclear sub burned in Maine 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1787

Will Boeing's Tanker Destroy Lockheed Martin's F-35? 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2448

Half of potential jurors dismissed as jury selection resumes in Brig. Gen. Sinclair's court-martial 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2507

Navy Vets Say They Suffer From Agent Orange 0 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1686

Bagram: Torture, Detention Without End at US Military's 'Other Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1738

The U.S.’s octogenarian Nazis problem looks a lot like its Guantanamo prisoners problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1828

In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1627

U.S. plans to monitor Afghanistan relief projects remotely 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1658

Fleet hosting talk on use of drones 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1717

Pentagon considers scrapping costly F-35 jet program 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2736

Ash Carter Orders OSD Agency Cuts ASAP 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1803

No, says State Dept., Drone Attacks in Pakistan Will Not Be Ending 'Very, Very Soon' 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1731

60 U.S. military members fired in Pentagon sexual assault review 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1788

Now President Obama has to rebuild the VA system that Bush destroyed. 3 Major Hogwash Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2227

Pentagon downplays prospects of cancelling F-35, bomber 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1805

Military considers cutting 25% of Army personnel, Marines to trim budget for sequester 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 6 2874

WWII Photo Reconnaissance Pilot Reacts to Footage of Himself from 1944 4 progressoid Jul 2013 Jul 2013 7 2751

The Costly Failure of Missile Defense 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1760

WTF??? Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified 24 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 52 6382

Design As We Go Fails (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2382

Italy Begins F-35 Assembly; Dutch Store Their First Two Jets 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2257

Marines Will Sacrifice Everything But ACV & Readiness To Sequester; Marine Personnel Carrier Dropped 5 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 1 2782

Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2529

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Veterans Kept as Guinea Pigs to Get Some Relief 3 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 17 3399

Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1718

Afghanistan Reconstruction: U.S. Soldiers At Risk Because Of Private Contractors' Fraud, SIGAR Warns 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1902

4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2572

Report questions costs of mansions for the military's top brass 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1894

Gen. Hayden’s Glass House 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1741

Makers of Agent Orange followed formula dictated by U.S. government (Dow & Monsanto) 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 10 1736

As parents die, Vietnamese worry who’ll care for Agent Orange disabled 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 4 1646

FAA tells Colorado residents not to shoot at drones or risk fines, jail 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 3 2518

US Drone Operator says, ‘I became a sociopath’, regrets 1626 Killings (Lest we forget) 12 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 26 3722

Colorado Town Poised to be First to Issue Drone Hunting License 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2345

Navy carrier drone program to cost billions 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2411

Army relieves Fort Jackson general of command 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2260

Suicide among US veterans 22 per day, 3 times national rate: Report 2 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2358

XO of riverine squadron fired after 2 boats grounded 0 tinymontgomery Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1626

Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc 43 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 114 11436

Somebody's Getting Ripped Off 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1956

Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector 0 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1655

Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2387

Will the Pentagon Talk to the VA? 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1763

Obama's 'zero option' on AfPak is viable 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1668

HII Awarded $745 Million Contract to Inactivate USS Enterprise 6 Angleae Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2995

Troops allegedly misled by car loan program to get refunds 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1888

Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1789

Pentagon propaganda efforts continue 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2149

Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Says 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2121

Watchdog warns of waste in Afghan aircraft buy 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1677

Kyrgyzstan ends US lease of Manas airbase 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1741

AEI & Heritage Target Rebuilding GOP Views On ‘Common Defense’ 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1981

Foreign Arms Sales, Sequestration And The Future of Aerospace Companies 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1817

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DoD Aviation Plan Ignores Sequestration; Rep. Forbes Warily Watches F-18, F-35 Balance 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2247

Abu Ghraib case against CACI dismissed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1632

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers file motions at court-martial claiming unlawful command influe 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2160

Diplomats, defence officials posted abroad told to call scathing F-35 report a ‘bureaucratic’ issue, 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1672

Vt. F-35 opponents demonstrate noise 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1673

Italian minister defends F-35 jet purchase on eve of tense vote 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2148

Pakistan Premier Says Former Military Ruler Will Be Charged With Treason 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1935

In Debate Over Military Sexual Assault, Men Are Overlooked Victims 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 2084

In Yemen, Most Al Qaeda can be Captured, but Killing is Easier 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2182

JP Morgan’s Man in the White House 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1706

Obama’s New Syria Strategy is Nixon’s Vietnam Negotiation Tactics Redux (Meyer) 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2176

Anti-Drone Activists Stopped at U.S. Canadian Border due to "Orders of Protection" given to Commande 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2171

Air Force officer charged with rape and child molestation 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 3661

Barack Obama's Africa Trip Misses Military Mission Creep on Continent 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1770

F-35 costs kick up more controversy outside U.S. 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 2369

Taliban spokesman: Removal of sign threatens talks 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1708

BAE Pushes Its T-X Bird At Paris Show; Gen. Welsh Tells DC ‘We’re On Track’ 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2022

Boeing Told to Repay After Charging $2,286 for $10 Part 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 4 1965

Sen. Sessions: GOP Distrusts Obama, But We Might Backload Sequester 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1991

Top Official Admits F-35 Stealth Fighter Secrets Stolen 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2095

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