Talking safety
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Talking safety
Military Saves
Military Saves
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Bi-Lateral training in England
Bi-Lateral training in England
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Plan would expand leave for some families
Military family members who are ineligible for family and medical leave still could get time off for deployment-related issues under potentially controversial legislation pending before two congressional committees. The Military Family Leave Act would provide up to two weeks of leave — unpaid if an employer chooses — to people not covered by...
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Navy says 3 dogs died after contractor neglect
WASHINGTON — The Navy says that three dogs died and dozens more were in poor health after being neglected by a private security contractor in Chicago that had been hired to train the dogs to detect explosives. A team of military handlers discovered the dogs last October at a facility run by Securitas...
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Senators Pushing More VA Funds
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is asking for an additional $380 million in discretionary spending for the Veterans Administration budget for next year. Sen. Daniel Akaka said that most of the committee wants to see more money put into improving VA hospitals, veterans caregiver support, and job training.
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Nip and Tuck on the Military’s Buck
The military is adamant: It does not pay for unnecessary plastic surgery. But an audit of patient records released by the Pentagon in February shows that's not always the case.
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Some US Troops to Leave Kosovo
The U.S. is pulling 570 of its troops out of Kosovo in the next two months as part of a NATO restructuring, the Army announced Monday.
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Panetta Says US Disrupting al-Qaida
CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the country's counterterrorism operations have placed al-Qaida's top leaders under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but recent thwarted terror plots in the U.S. indicate the terror network is changing its tactics.
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Petraeus Dismisses Presidential Talk
For a guy who professes to have no interest in running for president, Gen. David Petraeus can come off as surprisingly eager to talk about it - sometimes without even being asked.
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Japan Confirms ‘Secret’ Pacts With US
Japan confirmed Tuesday secret Cold War-era pacts with Washington that tacitly allowed nuclear warships in Japanese ports in violation of a hallowed postwar principle, effectively acknowledging that previous governments had lied about them for decades.
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Rapid Fire: 2010-03-10
EU warns US about protectionism in KC-X tanker RFP. EU release Brazil’s president not yet sure what fighter to buy . Raytheon gets $152 million order to provide engineering services for the Patroit anti-air missile defense system . Up to $600 million to Rolls-Royce to provide logistics support for the AE 1107C-Liberty engines...
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Lawmakers push for big VA budget increase
Despite plans to give the Veterans Affairs Department a 7 percent budget increase at a time when most federal spending is frozen, key congressional committees are pushing for even bigger veterans budgets. They just can’t agree on how much more to give. At the low end, Democrats on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee...
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Cougar Family MRAPs to Stalk Mines on the Battlefield (updated)
Cougar 6?6, IEDed - the crew lived . (click to view full) FY 2009 financials, new COO, new vehicle, 23 Mastiffs for UK, more TAK-4 suspension work. (March 8/10) The Cougar family of medium-sized blast-protected vehicles is produced in both 4-wheel (formerly Cougar H) and 6-wheel (formerly Cougar HE) layouts. Eventually, the wisdom...
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Japan confirms it allowed nuke-armed U.S. ships
TOKYO — Japan confirmed for the first time Tuesday the existence of once-secret Cold War-era pacts with the U.S. that tacitly allowed nuclear-armed warships to enter Japanese ports in violation of Tokyo’s postwar principles. While declassified U.S. documents have already confirmed such 1960s agreements, Tuesday’s revelation broke with decades of official denials. The...
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Japan confirms Cold War-era pacts with U.S.
TOKYO — Japan confirmed for the first time Tuesday the existence of once-secret Cold War-era pacts with the U.S. that tacitly allowed nuclear-armed warships to enter Japanese ports in violation of Tokyo's postwar principles. While declassified U.S. documents have already confirmed such 1960s agreements, Tuesday's revelation broke with decades of official denials. The...
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Desperately Seeking Sources: NAWCAD Looks for Help on Special Ops Comms
The US Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent River, MD is looking for contractors to provide maintenance, logistics, and life cycle service support for its Special Communications Requirement Division’s (SCRD) communication-electronic (C-E) equipment, systems and subsystems. The SCRD designs, develops, tests and supports joint special operations’ communications and electronics equipment....
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