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Gates Visits Afghan Army Training Center

March 10, 2010

For the last stop in his visit to Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates opted to take a first-hand look at an Afghan National Army training center.
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Retired O-5 on defense after leaving U.S. House

March 9, 2010

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Eric Massa, a retired Navy commander who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual. “It doesn’t make any difference what my intentions were, it’s how it’s perceived by the...
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Gates visits Afghan town cleared by Marines

March 9, 2010

NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert Gates, aiming to show progress in the expanded war against insurgents in south Afghanistan, took a brief, heavily guarded walk Tuesday down a rutted street in this scruffy market town where the Taliban lobbed mortars at...
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Army seeks answers for Afghan civilian deaths

March 9, 2010

A helicopter attack that killed at least 15 civilians in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province was called in by a Special Forces A-team that did not have “eyes on” their target and resulted in a 48-hour standdown for U.S. special operations forces, said an Army officer familiar with the incident. In the wake of the...
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Cruiser CO fired for ‘cruelty’ assigned to Dahlgren

March 9, 2010

The former cruiser commanding officer who was fired in January after a years-long pattern of “cruelty and maltreatment” toward her crew is to report to a new job at Navy Air and Missile Defense Command in Dahlgren, Va., Navy Times has learned. Capt. Holly Graf, relieved of command of the cruiser Cowpens on...
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Comfort returning home from Haiti mission

March 9, 2010

The hospital ship Comfort has been released from duty off the coast of Haiti and will begin its journey home to Baltimore this week, the Navy announced Tuesday. The Comfort discharged its last patient Feb. 27, but at the height of the humanitarian relief effort the ship was taking aboard critically injured people...
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Latest issue of Airman magazine available

March 9, 2010

Navy assessment team arrives in Chile

March 9, 2010

A Navy assessment team arrived Monday in Santiago, Chile, to provide technical expertise following the 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunami Feb. 27, according to a press release from U.S. Southern Command. The Chilean Navy flew the team to Concepcion. The team, headed by Capt. Joe Newbury of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, came from Mayport,...
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