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Ted Rall: Crime and Punishment 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 4 1674

Japan-made parts to push up price of F-35 fighter jets for ASDF 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2373

Pentagon cuts F-35 operating estimate below $1 trillion: source 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1514

Navy disputes finding on ocean sonar 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1637

Alleged Torturers (CACI) sue Abu Ghraib Torture Victims (Lazare) 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1793

Air Force nuclear unit fails security test 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1913

Enough Of this Bullshit 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2059

US Arms Industry Would Lose Big from Egypt Aid Cut-Off 6 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 11 3514

It’s not about Democracy: Top Ten Reasons Washington is Reluctant to cut off Egypt Aid 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 4 1883

Sordid details spill out in rare court-martial of a general on sex charges 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2465

DON’T SAY ‘DRONES,’ Beg Drone Makers 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2129

Northrop Builds Rental Drones For Air Force, Customs Training 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1709

Elecrocuted Solider Suit Revived Against KBR 1 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 9 1960

Analysts: Cutting aircraft carriers a real possibility 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2238

Fact Sheet: The Obama Administration’s Work to Honor Our Military Families and Veterans 3 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 2020

President Obama and the First Lady address the Disabled American Veterans National Convention 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1865

Yemenis call U.S. drone strikes an overreaction to al Qaida threat 1 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1854

Give Us Our Flag! 3 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 14 2589

President Obama to address convention of disabled veterans 0 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1596

Courthouse, Prescott, Arizona 3 Ptah Aug 2013 Aug 2013 12 2234

Obama signs bill easing airport screening for vets 2 Tx4obama Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1990

Full jury seated in Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's sexual assault case 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2295

President Obama Says Korean War Veterans ‘Deserve Better’ 3 Tx4obama Jul 2013 Aug 2013 3 2075

Navy abandons plan to fix nuclear sub burned in Maine 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1806

Will Boeing's Tanker Destroy Lockheed Martin's F-35? 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2476

Half of potential jurors dismissed as jury selection resumes in Brig. Gen. Sinclair's court-martial 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2530

Navy Vets Say They Suffer From Agent Orange 0 douglas9 Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1713

Bagram: Torture, Detention Without End at US Military's 'Other Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1759

The U.S.’s octogenarian Nazis problem looks a lot like its Guantanamo prisoners problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1852

In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 3 1651

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U.S. plans to monitor Afghanistan relief projects remotely 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1677

Fleet hosting talk on use of drones 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1739

Pentagon considers scrapping costly F-35 jet program 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 2782

Ash Carter Orders OSD Agency Cuts ASAP 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1819

No, says State Dept., Drone Attacks in Pakistan Will Not Be Ending 'Very, Very Soon' 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1753

60 U.S. military members fired in Pentagon sexual assault review 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 1810

Now President Obama has to rebuild the VA system that Bush destroyed. 3 Major Hogwash Aug 2013 Aug 2013 1 2255

Pentagon downplays prospects of cancelling F-35, bomber 0 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1815

Military considers cutting 25% of Army personnel, Marines to trim budget for sequester 4 unhappycamper Aug 2013 Aug 2013 6 2907

WWII Photo Reconnaissance Pilot Reacts to Footage of Himself from 1944 4 progressoid Jul 2013 Jul 2013 7 2810

The Costly Failure of Missile Defense 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1779

WTF??? Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified 24 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 52 6568

Design As We Go Fails (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2421

Italy Begins F-35 Assembly; Dutch Store Their First Two Jets 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2296

Marines Will Sacrifice Everything But ACV & Readiness To Sequester; Marine Personnel Carrier Dropped 5 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 1 2839

Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2571

Veterans Kept as Guinea Pigs to Get Some Relief 3 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 17 3446

Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1740

Afghanistan Reconstruction: U.S. Soldiers At Risk Because Of Private Contractors' Fraud, SIGAR Warns 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1926

4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2620

Report questions costs of mansions for the military's top brass 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1923

Gen. Hayden’s Glass House 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1759

Makers of Agent Orange followed formula dictated by U.S. government (Dow & Monsanto) 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 10 1753

As parents die, Vietnamese worry who’ll care for Agent Orange disabled 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 4 1670

FAA tells Colorado residents not to shoot at drones or risk fines, jail 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 3 2541

US Drone Operator says, ‘I became a sociopath’, regrets 1626 Killings (Lest we forget) 12 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 26 3792

Colorado Town Poised to be First to Issue Drone Hunting License 4 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2383

Navy carrier drone program to cost billions 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2437

Army relieves Fort Jackson general of command 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 2282

Suicide among US veterans 22 per day, 3 times national rate: Report 2 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2387

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XO of riverine squadron fired after 2 boats grounded 0 tinymontgomery Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1646

Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc 43 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 114 11789

Somebody's Getting Ripped Off 2 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1978

Burn pit at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan poses health risk -inspector 0 douglas9 Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1671

Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning 3 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2432

Will the Pentagon Talk to the VA? 1 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 1801

Obama's 'zero option' on AfPak is viable 0 unhappycamper Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1683

HII Awarded $745 Million Contract to Inactivate USS Enterprise 6 Angleae Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 3111

Troops allegedly misled by car loan program to get refunds 2 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1904

Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1807

Pentagon propaganda efforts continue 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 2168

Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Says 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2139

Watchdog warns of waste in Afghan aircraft buy 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 2 1702

Kyrgyzstan ends US lease of Manas airbase 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 3 1761

AEI & Heritage Target Rebuilding GOP Views On ‘Common Defense’ 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2003

Foreign Arms Sales, Sequestration And The Future of Aerospace Companies 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1839

DoD Aviation Plan Ignores Sequestration; Rep. Forbes Warily Watches F-18, F-35 Balance 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2271

Abu Ghraib case against CACI dismissed 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1655

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's lawyers file motions at court-martial claiming unlawful command influe 1 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2185

Diplomats, defence officials posted abroad told to call scathing F-35 report a ‘bureaucratic’ issue, 0 unhappycamper Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1705

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