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The Quality of Mercy

John P. Howe, III, M.D. | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Project-Hope, Diplomacy, Navy, Humanitarian Aid, Military, Medicine, Health Care, Comfort, Doctors, Impact News

As Americans remember the sacrifices of our military on Memorial Day, I also recall the thousands of Project HOPE volunteers dispatched across the globe over the years to bring health and healing to foreign shores.

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ReThink Review: Battleship: Interplanetary War on Human Eardrums

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Gregory D. Gadson, Movie Reviews, Taylor Kitsch, Tadanobu Asano, Rihanna, Battleship, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, Hasbro, Brooklyn Decker, Rethink Reviews, Navy, Sound Design, Jonathan Kim, Hamish Linklater, Video, Entertainment News

Battleship succeeds in being big, dumb, and extremely loud, and after The Avengers, we should all be expecting a lot more.

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Defense Chief Restricts Flights Of Stealth Fighter That's Been Choking Pilots

Wired | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Pentagon, Nasa, Military, Hypoxia, Stealth Fighter, John Kirby, Adam Kinzinger, George Little, F-22 Raptor, Aviation, Navy, Air Force, Leon Panetta, Politics News

For five years, America’s most expensive fighter jets have been poisoning their pilots and crew. On Tuesday, the Defense Secretary finally stepped i...

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I Served My Country and Lost My Privacy

Carey D. Lohrenz | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Military Women, Women in the Military, Women in Combat, Carey D. Lohrenz, US Navy, Women Pilots, Navy, Female Pilots, Female Soldiers, Women Soldiers, Politics News

Little did I know at that time that by choosing to fly combat jets I was giving up my rights to privacy and the right to defend my reputation.

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Crew Members of the USS Monitor: Solving the Mystery of the Skeletons in the Turret 150 Years Later

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Ironclad, Dna, History, Military, Bones, Civil War, Memorial Day, Sailors, Mystery, Forensics, Genealogy, Genetics, Maritime, Navy, USS Monitor, Shipwreck, Culture News

Who doesn't love a good history mystery? You don't have to be a Civil War buff to be fascinated with the attempt to identify the two skeletons found in the turret of the USS Monitor when it was raised from the ocean floor a decade ago.

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Navy Study Says Sonar And Blasts May Hurt More Sea Life

AP | AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: US Navy Marine Animals, Video, Dolphins, Navy Sonar Testing, US Navy Sonar Study, Navy Sonar Study, Navy, Whales, Navy Sonar Animals, Animals, US Navy Sonar, US Navy, Green News

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy may hurt more dolphins and whales by using sonar and explosives in Hawaii and California under a more thorough analysi...

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Failed Equipment, Flawed Designs Plague Lockheed Littoral Combat Ship

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Littoral Combat Ship, Navy, Department of Defense, Government Contracting, Lockheed Martin, Politics News

After more than six months in port, the USS Freedom has only been out to sea twice this year, and during both trips the engines and other key equipment failed. This is a far cry from what the Navy has been telling taxpayers.

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Why Rural Senators Want A Big Nuclear Arsenal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Russia, Elections 2012, Icbm, Arms Control, Navy, Icbm Coalition, New Start Treaty, Air Force, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Video, Montana Senate 2012, Nuclear Weapons, Campaign Contributions, North Korea Nuclear Program, Pork Barrel Spending, Jon Tester, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's failed rocket launch and new arms talks with Iran have thrust the issue of nuclear proliferation back into the headlines. ...

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Lippold Book Seeks to Put 'Forgotten' USS Cole Bombing Back On 'Front Burner'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Uss Cole, Yemen, Video, War on Terror, Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Uss Cole Bombing, Guantanamo Detainees, Kirk Lippold, Guantanamo, Navy, US Navy, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, suicide bombers sent by Osama bin Laden blew a huge hole in a U.S. Navy destroyer that had stoppe...

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The F-35 vs. Healthcare

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 04.09.2012

The F-35 program's biggest obstacle seems to be the enormous amount of software code that needs to be written and verified.

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Navy To Compensate Those Affected By Jet Crash

AP | BROCK VERGAKIS | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Jet Crash in Virginia Beach, U.S. Navy, Airplane Crashes, Video, Navy Jet Crash Virginia Beach, Navy, Mayfair Mews, Virginia Beach, F/a-18D Hornet, Navy Jet Crash, World News

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A slew of residents who lost their homes after a Navy jet crashed into their apartment complex began picking up government...

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Navy Jet Slams Into Apartments

AP | ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Virginia, Video, F18 Jet, F18-Crash, Navy, Virginia Beach, Navy Jet, Virginia-Beach-Navy-Jet-Crash, Navy Jet Crash, World News

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A fighter jet that malfunctioned just after takeoff hurtled into a Virginia Beach apartment complex on Friday in a spectac...

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Navy Jet Slams Into Apartments

AP/The Huffington Post | Clare Richardson | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Virginia, Video, F18 Crash, Plane Crash Virginia, F 18 Crash, F18 Jet, Jet Crash Virginia, Virginia Crash, Navy, Navy F 18, Navy Jet, Navy Jet Crash, World News

A U.S. Navy jet crashed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday afternoon. CNN reports that the plane -- an F/A-18D assigned ...

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WATCH: Soldier Dad Surprises Daughter At Talent Show

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Video, Military, Bill Kerrigan, Afghanistan, Talent Show, Military-Surprise-Homecoming, Kylie Murphy, Stacy Murphy, Military-Families, Navy, Slidepollajax, Kyle Murphy, Impact News

When seventh grader Kylie Murphy took a front-row seat at her Ohio school's talent show, she had no idea that she would play a leading role. Kylie'...

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Which America Are the Troops Fighting to Defend? No Campaign Slogan Can Answer That

Alejandro Alves | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Army, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Armed Forces, Air Force, Iraq War, Rick Santorum, Obama Administration, Soldiers Vote, Navy, Election 2008, Election 2012, John McCain, Politics News

Candidates laying claim to the military vote through rhetoric and photo-ops are building a fiction that demeans our individual reasons for service.

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What Would General Patton Do In Iraq and Afghanistan?

Ben Patton | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Navy, Iraq, General Patton, Afghanistan, Slidepollajax, George Patton, George S Patton, Books News

I work with veterans all the time, and one question invariably comes up: How do I think my grandfather, WWII general George S. Patton Jr., would have done in Afghanistan and Iraq?

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Consistency, Consistency, Consistency

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Taxes, Marines, Army, Armed Forces, Mortgage Crisis, Unemployment Benefits, Alaska, Medicare, Medicaid, Navy, Air Force, Student Loans, Political Commentary, Commentary, Drug Testing, Welfare Drug Testing, Satire, Political Satire, Comedy News

"Please urinate into this little cup here before we begin processing your tax statement. Once you've done that, we'll be happy to process your mortgage interest deduction and give you that refund I know you've been looking forward to."

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Navy Secretary Defends Biofuels Investment

AP | BROCK VERGAKIS | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Navy Biofuels, Video, Military Biofuels, Military, Biofuels, Military Alternative Fuels, Alternative Fuels, Navy, Ray Mabus Navy, US Navy, Algae Biofuel, Green News

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus defended the service's investment on biofuels Monday, saying that it is a "false choice" for critics to...

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WATCH: Deaf ROTC Soldier Fights To Change Military Acceptance Rules

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Soldier, Keith Nolan, US Military, California State University, Tedx, California, Bravo Company, Henry Waxman, Navy, Deaf, Video, Impact News

Growing up, Cadet Private Keith Nolan knew he wanted to be in the military. After high school he went to enlist, but instead, got three words scribble...

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Fighting Pirates With Paper: How the Law of the Sea Is Important in the Fight Against Piracy

Mark V. Vlasic | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Law of the Sea, Navy Seals, International Law, Mark Vlasic, Pirates, Somalia, Navy, International, Law of the Sea Treaty, Law of the Sea Convention, Somalian Pirates, World News

We cannot fight piracy with our U.S. fleet alone. Fortunately, on this issue, the world is on our side, and one of the most powerful weapons available is within our reach.

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WATCH: Navy Testing Incredibly Powerful Railgun

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Rail Guns, Video, Defense, Rail Gun, Electromagnetic Railgun, Navy, Railguns, Railgun, Guns, BAE Systems, US Navy, Science News

Railguns are not just the stuff of science fiction and videogames. The U.S. Navy announced Tuesday that it's testing a prototype of an electromagn...

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Man Receives Lost Wallet 35 Years Later

Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Shawn Wyckoff, Video, Inspiring, Spring Hills, Kansas, Gean Brown Jr., Veteran, Navy, Wallet Returned, Good News News

When Gean Brown Jr. misplaced his wallet while installing pipes in the attic of a Kansas home around 1976-77, he thought it was gone forever. But ...

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Falklands Flare Up -- Could a New Oil Find Re-Ignite an Old Conflict?

John C.K. Daly | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Oil and Gas, Politics News, Oil and Gas Companies, Britain, Falkland Islands, Falklands War, UK Politics, Geopolitics, Oil, Argentina, Navy, Nuclear Submarine, World News, World News

News that the Falklands' oil industry could potentially be worth $180 billion in royalties and taxes has reignited the smoldering diplomatic dispute between London and Buenos Aires.

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Women in Combat: The Crow Is Cooking

Greg Jacob | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Pentagon, Women, Ann Dunwoody, Department of Defense, Budget, Combat, Appropriations, Navy, Generals, Santorum, Equal Opportunity, Women in Combat, Marines, Military, Army, Defense Contracting, Air Force, Politics News

Women in the military are being held back simply because they are women. Such an idea is not only completely at odds with military ethics, but is distinctly un-American.

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At 96, First Black Woman To Serve In U.S. Coast Guard Continues Fight For Civil Rights

White Plains Patch | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: U.S. Coast Guard, Bedford Correctional Facility for Women, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Oklahoma, Tulsa-Race-Riots, Navy, Civil Rights, New York, Black History Month, Dr. Olivia Hooker, Impact News

An angry mob of white men charged into her house while her mother was cooking breakfast. They robbed the house and tossed out the freshly made meal af...

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