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Burning Up at My Bachelor Party

Chris Kyle | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Marines, Tarawa, Fenway Park, Jane Fonda, Twitter, Drinking Water, Bachelor Party, The Hangover, Drinking, Midway, Living News

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 08.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Marines, Harvard Business School, Auto Industry, Local-Motors, Business News

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 08.16.2009 | 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 08.12.2009 | 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 08.06.2009 | 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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Obama's Consequential First 4th: NoKo, AfPak, Iraq, Russia, Palin (Palin?!)

William Bradley | Posted 08.04.2009 | 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

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 08.02.2009 | 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

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 07.09.2009 | World

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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 07.05.2009 | Politics

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 07.02.2009 | 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

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 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Suicides, Marines, Army, Military, Afghanistan, Suicide, Iraq, Afghanistan War, US Navy, Politics News

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 06.27.2009 | Comedy

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

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 06.11.2009 | 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

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

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FBI Weren't the Only Ones Objecting to Torture in 2002 -- So Did the Army, Marines & Air Force

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marines, Robert Muller, Army, Guantanamo Bay, Jim Haynes, Air Force, Donald Rumsfeld, Navy, Captain Jane Dalton, Richard Myers, Fbi, Torture, Politics News

When Donald Rumsfeld approved "enhanced interrogation techniques" for Guantanamo Bay in 2002, there were already serious objections to the use of torture from the military.

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Bloomberg 3? NYC Veterans 0

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Veterans Affairs, Troops, Mental Health, Memorial Day, Mayor Bloomberg, Middle East Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Veterans Day, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, President Obama, Michael Bloomberg Term Limits, Mike Bloomberg, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Iraq Veteran Suicide, Students, New York, New York City, Tbi, Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Marines, Iraq PTSD, Veterans Benefits, Homeless Veterans, Middle East, Ptsd, US Navy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Politics News

Ask any veteran and he or she will tell you that over the past several years New York City's Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs has done little or nothing to assist the hundreds of thousands of veterans in the city.

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For Veterans, "Happiness is a warm puppy"

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 04.09.2009 | Style

Recently, I learned that the comic-strip writer Charles Schulz was a decorated veteran of WWII and experienced severe forms of the shock and melancholy that often results from combat.

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A Peace Movement Win

Tom Hayden | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Anti-War Movement, Marines, Bush Administration, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, War, Harry Reid, Peace, North Carolina, Iraq Withdrawal, World News

This is a clear victory for those in the peace movement who supported Obama as the first anti-war candidate with a chance to become president.

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You May Be Surprised: A Marine Mom and Army Officer Discuss How War Can End

Deanie Mills | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: Killing, Iraq War, Marines, Military, Iraq, Special Forces, World News

I am pro-military. I am also opposed -- and have been from the very beginning -- to the Iraq war.

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A Different Kind of Homecoming

Dan Glickman | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance, Hbo, Marines, Mpaa, Academy Awards, War, Oscars, Military Conflict, Movies About Iraq, Movies, Strobl, Entertainment News

It is that rare film that compels me to encourage everyone I know -- particularly policymakers -- to stop, look and listen.

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Saturday's Provincial Elections Demonstrate "Ordinary" Iraqis' Courage

Heather Robinson | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy, Iraq, Iraq Provincial Elections, Manhattan, World, The Guardian, Elections, Politics, Soldiers, Marines, Iraqis, Sailors, Security, Voting, World News

For the first time in Iraq's democratic history, at Saturday's provincial elections, Iraqis handled security themselves -- a remarkable accomplishment.

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"I Hope Obama Fails" -- Limbaugh and Al-Qaeda Agree on Obama

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Violence, Coulter, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Marines, Politics, Service, James Dobson, Al Queda, Patriotism, Media News

American success terrifies some on the right. They know America's success and President Obama's success is, for now, one and the same.

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Top Marine: Time For His Troops To Leave Iraq, Enter Afghanistan

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Iraq is stable enough to allow the roughly 22,000 U.S. Marines there to withdraw, the service's top general said Friday. "The time...

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Violent Veterans, the Big Picture

Helen Benedict | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pain, Veterans Affairs, Emotion, US Soldiers, Violence Against Women, Mental Health, Trauma, Iraq Violence, Violence, Soldiers in Iraq, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Resentment, War in Iraq, Iraq Veteran Suicide, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Iraq War, Emotions, Iraq Veteran Stories, Marines, Anger, Iraq Veterans, Soldiers, Army, Iraqi Civilian Deaths, Iraq Veterans Suicide, Iraq War Casualities, Iraq, Iraq Veterans Mental Health, Politics News

Iraq War veterans seem to be killing and hurting themselves and others more than veterans of any other war in American history.

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Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, The Clintons, James Winborn Turner, Greatest Generation, Man on the Moon, America, 9/11, The Flag, Civil War, Democratization, Win, Reagan, Ayn Rand, American History, Texas History, Houston, Pride, Great Depression, American Nostalgia, Preemptive War, American Know How, Marines, Trickle Down, Meritocracy, Texas, Shareholder Value, Barack Obama, American Attitude, Patriotism, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam, Living News

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

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COP Haditha

S.D. Liddick | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Read More: Haditha, Iraq, Army, Military, Marines, World News

The Syrian Desert is cold in December. I knew from similar country in Southern California and Nevada it would be like this. But I wasn't prepare...

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