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 affairs
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…
BRITAIN’S IRON LADY LAID TO REST WITH FULL POMP
By JILL LAWLESS and CASSANDRA VINOGRAD An overhead view of guests attending the ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Wednesday April…
HAGEL WARNS OF DEEP, NEW SPENDING CUTS
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Hagel warned of sharply deeper cuts to…
VETERANS FIGHT CHANGES TO DISABILITY PAYMENTS
By KEVIN FREKING In this March 24, 2013 photo, former Marine Corps Cpl. Marshall Archer, left, a veterans’ liaison for the city of Portland, Maine, speaks to a man on…
FIRST LADY BEARS EASTER GIFTS TO MILITARY FAMILIES
By STACY A. ANDERSON First Lady Michelle Obama looks at four-week-old Shawn Wittaker as he is held by his mother Amanda Wittaker during a visit to the Fisher House, located…
AP: COSTS OF US WARS LINGER FOR OVER 100 YEARS
By MIKE BAKER OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service…
PARRIS ISLAND LEADER SAYS WOMEN CAN HANDLE COMBAT
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER In this Feb. 21, 2013 photo, female recruits form up at the Marine Corps Training Depot on Parris Island, S.C. Brig Gen. Loretta Reynolds, the first…