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Washington Post: 9,000 Troops Will Deploy To Afghanistan Soon After Obama's Speech

Washington Post | Greg Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Karzai, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Troop Levels, Kabul, Deployments, Helmand, Obama, Taliban, Mcchrystal, Marines, Nato, Afghanistan Decision, South Waziristan, World News

KABUL -- Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin deploying to southern Afgha...

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The Troops Have Landed, to Help us Build

Tom Gerdy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Blitz Building, Habitat-for-Humanity, Marines, Community Service, Our Troops, Sailors, Volunteering, Giving Back, Impact News
Tom Gerdy

As I looked over the crowd gathered to build houses for Habitat for Humanity, I saw the faces of about 100 Marines and sailors who had come out to help.

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Marine Who Staged His Own Disappearance Spared Felony Charges

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Marines, Marine Deserter, Staged Disappearance, Boulder Colorado, Iraq, Post Tramatic Stress Disorder, Boulder Marine, Lance Hering, Denver News

Lance Hering, the troubled former Marine who triggered the most expensive man-hunt in Boulder County history when he staged his own disappearance in A...

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Marines Take Risks With Deadly Trust-Building Game

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Marines Training, Marines, North Carolina, US Marines, Home News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his late-night mov...

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Marines Walk Into Insurgent 'Trap' In Afghanistan; 4 Die

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Marines Killed, Marines, Gangigal, Taliban, Afghanistan, Kunar Province, Ambush, Kunar Province Ambush, World News

Four U.S. Marines died Tuesday when they walked into a well-laid ambush by insurgents in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province. ...

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George Will Debates NeoCons Over Afghanistan War

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq Withdrawl, Marines, George Will and Iraq Pullout, Afghanistan Troop Withdrawl, George Stephanopoulos, George Will on Stephanopoulos, General Charles Krulak, Krulak, George Will and Afghanistan Pullout, Afghanistan, Krulak Letter, This Week, Kabul, Baghdad, George Will on This Week, Politics News

Conservative commentator George Will appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos Sunday Morning and took on NeoConservatives over the cou...

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VA Won't Pay Benefits To Marine Whose Injuries Came From Smallpox Vaccine

McClatchy Newspapers | David Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Marines, Veterans Administration, Va, Smallpox Vaccine, Iraq, Military Benefits, Josef Lopez, Military Vaccine Agency, Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez, Home News

It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago after nine days in Iraq. It was an injection into his arm befo...

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U.S. Marines Fight With Little Aid From Afghans

nytimes.com | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Afghanistan, Marines Afghanistan, Marines, Afghan Army, World News

KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan American Marines secured this desolate village in southern Afghanistan nearly two months ago, and last week they were fortify...

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Videos Explode Teabaggers' Health Care Myths

The Uptake | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Small Business, Marines, Military, Army, Teabaggers, Vets, Insurance, Obamacare, Air Force, Health Insurance, Navy, Teabagger, Medicare, Health Care, Healthcare, Veterans, Politics News
The Uptake

You may have heard that "Obamacare" will euthanize Grandma and force you to lose your medicare coverage. You may have heard that veterans will lose co...

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Twitter Tells Twitterers To Stop Twittering While Tweeting About Twitter

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Social Media, Marines, Larry King, Twitter, Nfl, Trent Reznor, Comedy News
Lee Stranahan

The confusingly popular social media site announced that the entire Twitter corporation has banned the use of Twitter by its employees, affiliated companies and entire user base.

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Gates and Trucks

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Dod, Marines, Public Defender, Gates, Pennsylvania, Department of Defense, US Soldiers, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, M-Atvs, Mraps, Bob Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

For once, American manufacturers are producing the best weapons ahead of schedule, and will save lives of men who would die without them.

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Burning Up at My Bachelor Party

Chris Kyle | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Marines, Tarawa, Fenway Park, Jane Fonda, Twitter, Drinking Water, Bachelor Party, The Hangover, Drinking, Midway, Healthy Living News
Chris Kyle

For goodness sakes, if my grandfathers could survive World War II, surely I can survive my bachelor party.

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Winning the War at Home

Tom Matlack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Detroit, Marines, Harvard Business School, Auto Industry, Local-Motors, Business News
Tom Matlack

Even though he's no longer in combat, he's still a commander, now in a war to save the auto industry from itself.

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Afghan War: Troops Short On Supplies As Offensive On Taliban Continues

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Foreign Affairs, Helmand, Afghanistan War, Marines, Afghan War Shortages, Taliban Afghanistan, Surge in Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, US Troops Afghanistan, Advocacy, War Wire, World News

U.S. Marines pushing deeper into Taliban territory in Afghanistan's Helmand River Valley are short of basic equipment and supplies ranging from radios...

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2 US Marines Die In Afghanistan Bomb Blasts

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Warwire, Afghanistan, Marines, US Marines Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, US Marines, World News

KABUL — A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive ope...

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Autistic Marine's Case Raises Questions On Recruiting Practices

LA Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: u.s. Marine Corps, Marines, Military, U.S. Military, Autism, Military Recruiting, u.s. Marines, Politics News

A few days after he arrived at boot camp here, Joshua Fry no longer wanted to be a Marine. He was confused by the orders drill instructors shouted at ...

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Younger Military Families Closing Ranks Around Obama

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Polls, Military Times, Youth Vote, Donald Inbody, Black Voters, Austin, Museum of the Marine Corps, Independent Voters, University of Texas, Joe Biden, Democrats, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Iraq War, Virginia, Young Voters, Pollsters, Patriotism, Marines, Military, Latino Voters, US Marines, Iwo Jima, World War II, Michigan, Military Families, Republicans, Minorities, Don Inbody, Diane Tucker Military Closing Ranks, Home News
Diane Tucker

"Everyone I talk to wants change but on base you can't say certain things. At a bar or a party, everyone tells me they're voting for Obama... My military friends are tired of being lied to."

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Obama's Consequential First 4th: NoKo, AfPak, Iraq, Russia, Palin (Palin?!)

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Russia, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Missile Defense, Pakistan, North Korea, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Moscow, Iraq, Navy, John McCain, Dmitri Medvedev, Marines, Vladimir Putin, Nuclear Test, Missile, Japan, South Korea, Korean War, Camp David, Islamic Republic of Iran, Politics News
William Bradley

North Korea was to have been the drama of the day. But it turned into a major fizzle.

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The Military Industrial Complex: Truck You, Detroit, or Tanks for Nuttin' Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mraps, Contractors, Afghanistan, Detroit Three, Gm, Obama, Chysler, Ford, Oshkosh-Truck-Corp, Marines, Military, Army, Iraqs, Detroit, Navistar, Ieds, General Petraeus, Dod, Detroit Bailout, Atvs, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.

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7,000 US Marines Patrolling Southern Afghan Desert

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Marines, Warwire, Afghanistan, War Wire, Taliban, Marines Patrolling Afghanistan, Afghanistan Marines, World News

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Teams of builders worked through dust storms Monday to expand a base for a brigade of U.S. Marines now fanning o...

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Veteran Stigma: "What Does My Country think of Me?"

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Stigma, Mental Health, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Veterans Affairs, Afghanistan, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Penn State University, Air Force, War in Iraq, Veterans, Department of Homeland Security, Iraq War, U.S. Coast Guard, Marines, Army, Janet Napolitano, Department of Veterans Affairs, Defense Department, US Navy, Politics News
Luis Carlos Montalván

The stigma that veterans face has turned into widespread employment discrimination, precisely at a time when getting a job is especially difficult.

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Hipster Joins Marines, Wins Purple Heart In Ultimate Act Of Irony

Emmett Rensin | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Iraq War, Marines, Political Satire, Irony, New York, Youth Culture, Hipsters, Hipster Iraq, Hipster Purple Heart, Emmet Rensin, Joshua Cohen, Joshua Cohen Purple Heart, Joshua Cohen Hipster, Joshua Cohen Iraq, New York News
Emmett Rensin

Though no amount of exercise or food was able to add a pound to Cohen's body, he reported finding boot camp surprisingly easy. Sgt. Marvin DeLores remembers Cohen as "One of the easiest-conditioned guys I've met in years. Hardly took much work at all to shape him up."

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The 1%: America Insourcing Sacrifice

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Suicides, Marines, Army, Military, Afghanistan, Suicide, Iraq, Afghanistan War, US Navy, Politics News
Sean Gilfillan

Why is America insourcing sacrifice to 1% of its population when it is deemed necessary to our national security and interests?

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The Few and the Proud? A Red-Band Marine Recruiting Video

Dan Mirvish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Marines, Martin Eisenstadt, Afghanistan, Humor, Satire, Military Recruiting, Iraq, Warren G. Harding, US Navy, Comedy News
Dan Mirvish

At a time when we are reconsidering every decision made during the Bush/Rumsfeld era, from torture to the invasion of Iraq to the speculation of addin...

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Marine's Deaths Focus Pentagon and Civilians on Motorcycle Safety

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Long Beach, Krxa, Charles Karel Bouley, Billboard, Entertainment, Kfi, Msf, Karel, Kgo, Safety, Advocate, Motorcycles, Huffingtonpost, Gay, Politics, Marines, Sixsixone, Radio, Kngy, Knx, Piaggio, Vesap, Laub, Gladden, Timoni, Style News
Charles Karel Bouley

As America retools and rethinks the way we move about, motorcycles have got to be part of the national solution.

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