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Sailors And Marines Can Now Expect Random Alcohol Tests
Sailors and Marines who drink too late at night will be caught the next morning by breath-tests at duty stations. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has announced the installation of breathalyzer machines in...
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Virtual Reality Lenses Will Change How Troops Fight On The Battlefield
Defense researchers have designed a contact lens that superimposes 3-D virtual reality directly onto your eye. The iOptiks can enhance vision too, if you're not blessed with 20/20 sight. DARPA...
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US Army Suicides Are Up 80% Since The Start Of The Iraq War
Suicide among young Army personnel rose 80% between 2004 and 2008, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the last two years that had data available for the study — 2007 and 2008 — 255 soldiers took...
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2 Uniformed French Soldiers Shot Dead As They Used ATM
2 French soldiers have been shot dead in the southwestern French city of Montauban, CNN reports. The two men were killed and a third wounded by a person on a scooter, wearing a helmet with a visor,...
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The Lawyer Who Represented The 'Barefoot Bandit' Will Defend The US Soldier...
John Henry Browne, the lawyer who represented the teenage thief known as "the Barefoot Bandit," will help defend the US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar, the Seattle Post...
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Someone Is Murdering French Soldiers — And No One Knows Why
New details have emerged in the murder of two French soldiers yesterday and the murder of another soldier at the weekend. We already knew that in both attacks the shooter was riding a motorbike or...
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Sometimes The Only One Who Can Remind Troops How To Feel Is A Dog
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is expensive, not just in dollars, but the number of medically dependent U.S. men returning home from war, and the unsettling number who take their own lives....
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Alleged Afghanistan Shooter Identified As Robert Bales
The US Army soldier suspected in Sunday's massacre in Afghanistan has been identified as 38-year-old Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, according to media reports. Citing Defense Department sources, CNN’s...
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Russia Is Reportedly Sending 20,000 To 25,000 Troops To Its Southern Regions
Multiple unconfirmed reports have suggested that Russia is sending between 20,000 and 25,000 federal troops to its southern region of Dagestan. The reports come from Moscow-based analyst group...
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The Afghanistan Shooting Suspect Had An Incredibly Shady Financial History
CINCINNATI (AP) — The U.S. suspect in the slaughter of 16 villagers in Afghanistan has a trail of shaky financial dealings — from working in penny-stock boiler rooms that drew numerous client...
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Days Before The Massacre, Afghans Say US Troops Told Them They 'Would Pay'
Residents of an Afghan village near where an American solider is alleged to have killed 16 civilians are convinced that the massacre was in retaliation for a roadside bomb detonated in the area a few...
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AWOL Soldier Arrested For Trying To Defraud Paul Allen
A soldier on the Army's Absent Without Leave was arrested for attempting to use billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's bank account to make over $15,000 in purchases, as reported by the...
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Germany Is Planning A Veterans' Day Which Would Honor Even Its Fallen Nazi...
Germany may finally institute a Veterans’ Day to honor its soldiers fallen in combat, Deutsche Welle reports. The decision has received a mixed response in Germany: most of its veterans were members...
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This US Soldier Returned Home To A $21,000 Verizon Wireless Bill
Verizon Wireless is backpedaling after a U.S. soldier called them out for charging him more than $21,000 for calls he made while overseas. Before Brent Worthington left for a five-month tour in Iraq,...
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Three Techniques The Army Uses To Toughen Soldiers Up
Via Annie Murphy Paul's very interesting article in Time: 1) "Mental toughness comes from thinking like an optimist." The program’s key message: Mental toughness comes from thinking like an optimist....
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One Of Joseph Kony's Top Commanders Has Been Captured By Ugandan Troops
The Ugandan army has captured a top commander of the Joseph Kony-led Lord’s Resistance Army, although Kony himself remains elusive, The Wall Street Journal reports. Caesar Achellam, a major-general in...
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This Is How The Huge Defense Budget Cuts Will Shape The US Military
Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter gave a talk to the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank that develops an immense amount of defense policy in D.C. While he...
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This Iraq War Vet Is Suing A Landlord For Denying Him An Apartment
The trouble began when Sgt. Joel Morgan was turned away from an apartment by an anti-war landlord who allegedly argued his service and her beliefs presented a "conflict of interest." Now Morgan, a...
View ArticleChinese Archaeologists Just Found 100 More Terracotta Warriors
It has certainly been a busy week for Chinese archaeologists. Not only is the Great Wall twice as long as previously estimated, 100 more soldiers joined the ranks of the terracotta army bringing the...
View ArticleHere's How The Chinese Deal With Wasps
This video of the Chinese army using military flamethrowers to take down a five-foot-wide wasp's nest supposedly comes from the village of Jiangjin Tsx Wan Yuen Tsuen. The colony of wasps was...
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