AIR FORCE NUCLEAR UNIT FAILS KEY SECURITY TEST
AIR FORCE NUCLEAR UNIT FAILS KEY SECURITY TEST In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, a Malmstrom Air Force Base missile maintenance team removes the upper section of…
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PACIFIC FLEET’S SUBMARINE FORCE GETS NEW COMMANDER
By AUDREY McAVOY Rear Adm. James Frank Caldwell, Jr. receives a lei from Tammy Dureg, a fellow member of the Honolulu Pearl Canoe Club, after a U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine…
YEMEN’S GOVERNMENT SAYS IT FOILED AL-QAIDA PLOTS
By AHMED AL-HAJ A policeman checks a car at the entrance of Sanaa International Airport, in Yemen, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at…
US MILITARY EVACUATES EMBASSY PERSONNEL FROM YEMEN
By DEB RIECHMANN and LOLITA C. BALDOR FILE – In this Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 file photo, a Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading…
MILITARY PAINTS DIRE PICTURE FROM BUDGET CUTS
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pauses during a news conference at the Pentagon, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Hagel warned that the Pentagon may have to mothball up…
IN EGYPT BLOODSHED, DOZENS OF MORSI BACKERS KILLED
By AYA BATRAWY and TONY G. GABRIEL The corpse of a supporter for Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, killed during clashes with security forces at Nasr City, where pro-Morsi protesters…
ARMY SAYS NO TO MORE TANKS, BUT CONGRESS INSISTS
By RICHARD LARDNER In this photo taken April 23, 2013, Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Army’s hulking Abrams tank, built to…
GROUP: SUDAN ARMY SUPPORTING FUGITIVE WARLORD KONY
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA FILE – In this Nov. 12, 2006, file photo, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists’ questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian…