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Veterans Still Waiting For GI Bill Payments, Colleges Unpaid

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Affairs, Va, Afghanistan, Navy, Barack Obama, Eric Shinseki, Veterans, University, Education, Army, Military, Veterans Benefits, College, Air Force, GI Bill, Iraq, Higher Education, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...

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NBC: Send Your Holiday Salutes To U.S. Troops Abroad

Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact

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Have something to say to a special someone serving abroad or to our U.S. military in general? NBC is collecting letters, photos and video submissions ...

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Two-Legged Dog Inspires Disabled Army Vets, Others

AP | SUE MANNING | Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Disabled, Army, Two-Legged Dog, Faith, Reuben Stringfellow, Veterans, Jude Stringfellow, Impact News

LOS ANGELES — For several years, Jude Stringfellow and her Lab-chow mix have toured the country with a simple message: Faith walks. Born withou...

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Army Record Suicide Rate Continues, and Will Continue for Some Time

Jon Soltz | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stop-Loss, Iraq War, Obama Afghanistan, Marines, Dwell Time, Army, Peter Chiarelli, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, President Obama, Admiral Mike Mullen, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Politics News

The Army reported that suicides are yet again at an all time high. This isn't to say every soldier deployed frequently and for long periods will kill him or herself. But there's a "significant link" for many of those who do.

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Mexican Army Accused Of Torture By Amnesty International

AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...

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Postage and Other Economic Outrages Against Soldiers

Don McNay | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

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America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.

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Juarez Shootouts Between Zeta, Army Kill At Least 13 In Northern Mexico

AP | Posted 12.05.2009 | World

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MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said. ...

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Issue the Order: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Ryan McDermott | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Military, Army, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Veterans, President Obama, Politics News

Ordering the drafting of an implementation plan would be a tangible step forward in the right direction -- the President could make such an order today.

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Joshua Hunter, Fort Drum Soldier, Arrested For Stabbing Deaths Of Waide James, Diego Valbuena

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Diego Valbuena, Army, Ohio, Fort Drum, Waide James, Joshua Hunter, Joshua Hunter Arrested, New York, Evans Mills, New York News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Fort Drum soldier was arrested at a hotel in southern Ohio early Wednesday on a warrant charging him in the stabbing deaths ...

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Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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Army Now Allowing Media To Cover Palin Event At Fort Bragg

AP | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week whe...

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Army Keeping Media From Palin Event

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Palin Rally, Fort Bragg, Anti-Obama, Army, US Military, Tom McCollum, Sarah Palin, Palin Book Tour, Going Rogue, Media News

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Army will allow the media limited coverage of Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, but will bar reporters from inter...

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Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...

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PTSD: Fort Hood Shooting Shines Spotlight

ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

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Rates of PTSD, which may or may not have played a role in Hasan's case, along with traumatic brain injuries, are soaring, and are a leading cause of s...

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

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As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

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When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

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One Grizzled Veteran's Dream

William Astore | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Army, Veterans Affairs, Veterans Day, Navy, US Army, Air Force, US Air Force, US Navy, Veterans, Politics News

On this Veteran's Day, what if we began to measure our national success and power not by our military arsenal or number of recruits, but rather by the very opposite of that?

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Nidal Hasan Warned Army During 2007 Walter Reed Speech, Urged Release Of Muslims From US Military

Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "a...

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The Ft. Hood Massacre: A Lone-Wolf Jihad of One?

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Lone Wolf Terrorists, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Ft Hood Shooting, Army, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The horrific shooting at Fort Hood, allegedly by Nidal Malik Hasan, a disgruntled yet devout Army psychiatrist, puts the spotlight back on the lone-wolf offender who sits at the crossroads of crime, terrorism and mental distress.

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Peter Boyles: 'Political Correctness' To Blame For Fort Hood Killings

CO. Independent | CO Independent | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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Friday afternoon KHOW talk-radio host Peter Boyles, referring to the shooting-spree murder of 12 soldiers and 1 civilian at Fort Hood in Texas ...

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Many Issues With Tragedy at Ft. Hood -- A "Muslim Problem" not One of Them, FOX News

Jon Soltz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Ft Hood Shooting, Army, Gretchen Carlson, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fox News, Fox and Friends, US Army, Ft Hood Rampage, Ft Hood Shootings, Ft Hood, Brian Kilmeade, Media News

FOX and Friends hosts twice implied on their show that this is some kind of Muslim problem. There are thousands of American Muslims serving in the military right now, and many have given their lives.

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Fort Hood Killings: No Safe Place from Invisible Wounds of War

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dod, Fort Hood, Troops, Army, Army Suicides, Suicide, Ptsd, American Legion, Veterans, Fort Hood Shootings, Walter Reed, Politics News

In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.

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Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites

Allen McDuffee | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Wright-Patterson, Army, Military, Swine Flu, Air Force, H1n1, Censorship, US Navy, Vaccines, Politics News

If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.

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Military Suicides Fuel Worry That Army Is Strained

Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Depression, Afghanistan, Army Suicides, Troop Levels, Va, Kabul, Veterans, Stress, Active Duty, Mcchrystal, Military, Army, Surge, Deployment, Iraq, Suicide Prevention, Stanley McChrystal, World News

The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...

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On Don't Ask Don't Tell, Army's Ready, So What's the Hold-up?

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Here's an idea: Let's just keep our best troops, no matter what their background or orientation. Momentum is picking up in Congress behind that notion, but we still need the President to make his move.

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