European naval forces plan to disrupt pirate operations off the coast of Somalia by hunting down and sinking the pirates’ supply ships, rather than simply trying to defend cargo ships as they transit through the area.
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Navies Go on Offensive Against Pirates
Women Pilots of WWII Inspired Generations
Under clear blue skies, beneath the spires of the U.S. Air Force Memorial, military aviators gathered here to pay homage to the achievements of the first women to fly military aircraft during World War II.
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Mortuary Staff Prepares Uniforms for Fallen
Servicemembers who work in the uniform shop of the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base, Del., prepare the uniforms that will clothe fallen warriors' remains.
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USNS Comfort Completes Haiti Mission
The hospital ship USNS Comfort will leave Haiti, as U.S. Southern Command officials have determined its crew has completed its humanitarian relief mission in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation.
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Gates Visits Soldiers at Sharp End of Conflict
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is visiting Afghanistan to get the "ground truth" directly from U.S. servicemembers who are liberating Helmand province from the Taliban.
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Global Threats Demand Broad Response, Admiral Says
Increasing global threats such as those to computer networks and growing hostilities from Iran are prompting more NATO expeditionary operations.
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More NATO Trainers Key to Afghan Effort
Getting more NATO military trainers into Afghanistan is a top priority, the commander of the alliance's military forces told a Senate panel.
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Coalition Troops Capture Militant Commanders
Coalition forces captured two militant commanders along with several other insurgents in separate raids.
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Afghan Visit Reinforces Gates’ Faith in New Strategy
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' visits in Afghanistan with Marines at Now Zad and with soldiers at Forward Operating Base Frontenac in Kandahar province have reinforced his belief that the new Afghanistan strategy is working.
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Now Zad’s Citizens Eager to Return Home
The citizens of Now Zad, Afghanistan, once the second-largest city in Helmand province, are eager to return home after U.S.-Afghan-coalition military efforts have chased out the Taliban.
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Africom Assists Security, Stability Efforts
The U.S.-led Africa Partnership Station is designed to support and strengthen regional capabilities and building comprehensive maritime security in Africa.
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Mattis: Future Units Need Balanced Capabilities
U.S. military units in Iraq and Afghanistan advising host-nation security forces can still project combat power, Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Face of Defense: Soldier Serves in Family’s Homeland
Army Sgt. C.J. Rueda, a Filipino-American soldier, is part of the U.S. military task force charged with training Philippine counterterrorism forces and providing humanitarian assistance.
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Air Force Medical Team Deploys to Chile
An Air Force expeditionary medical support team from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, will arrive in Chile to help people impacted by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the nation Feb. 27.
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VA to automate Agent Orange claims process
WASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will fully automate how it pays claims for illnesses related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange to keep an overburdened system from collapse. It is the VA’s first effort at automating claims processing in its 80-year history, VA chief technology...
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Navy identifies body of sailor in Hawaii
SAN DIEGO – Navy officials on Monday identified as a sailor the body of a man found Saturday afternoon off a Hawaii beach a day after reports that a man in a life raft was stuck in heavy surf. Electrician’s Mate 1st Class (SS) Robert L. Mudd, 29, was a crewmember assigned to...
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Northrop Drops Tanker Bid
Northrop Grumman announced Monday that it will not bid on the KC-??X tanker and will not file a protest that might delay the program any further, which paves the way for Boeing to supply the new aircraft more than eight years after the company's original effort to do so.
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Military Tests Hazmat Exposure in Haiti
The U.S. military is testing samples of soil, water and air from hundreds of sites in Haiti to determine if troops could have been exposed to hazardous substances during earthquake relief efforts. Troops in the Haitian capital have been working in an environmental nightmare since the Jan. 13 earthquake.
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Skipper fired for ‘cruelty’ assigned to Dahlgren
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 this week to a new job at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Va., Navy Times has learned. Capt. Holly Graf, fired from the cruiser Cowpens on Jan. 13 in...
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CIA director: U.S. disrupting al-Qaida
NORMAN, Okla. — CIA Director Leon Panetta says America’s counterterrorism operations are putting senior al-Qaida leaders under tremendous pressure. Panetta made the comments Monday during a foreign policy conference at the University of Oklahoma. Panetta says al-Qaida is an adaptive, resilient group of terrorists whose top goal is to attack the United States....
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