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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 28: Actor and Army National Guard veteran Tom Selleck, master of ceremonies, speaks during an event for a Memorial Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. Today's ceremony at the memorial is the first event in the ongoing, 13-year Vietnam 50th Anniversary Commemoration Program that, according to the Department of Defense, 'will partner with other federal agencies, veterans groups, state, local government and non-government organizations to thank and honor veterans of the Vietnam War.' The black granite memorial bears the names of 58,272 military people who were killed in the Vietnam War.
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that all of the reserve-component troops originally eligible for the full PDMRA benefit should receive what was promised to them ... When the Pentagon changed the policy, it should have made clear that troops currently serving on active duty would be grandfathered in under the original policy. But it didn’t. … You would think it might be pretty simple for the Defense Department to correct its mistake. Of course, that wasn’t the case.
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12th military member tied to prostitution scandal
military personnel who have been implicated. The Secret Service has also taken action against 12 of its employees.Three Defense Department officials said the 12th military person involved was in Colombia in advance of President Barack Obama 's arrival for Read more »
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Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at 80
Colson pleaded guilty to efforts to discredit Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg . It was Ellsberg who had leaked the secret Defense Department study of Vietnam that became known as the Pentagon Papers.The efforts to discredit Ellsberg included use of Nixon's Read more »
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Govt IDs more airwaves for more mobile broadband
earlier identified 115 megahertz of spectrum that could be freed over five years. Of that, 100 megahertz would be shared with Defense Department radar systems. Another 15 megahertz would be reclaimed from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites Read more »
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Editorial: Base-closing time for Congress
trillion in spending, yet its proposal for two new rounds of base closings got a cold reception on Capitol Hill last week. The Department of Defense has more than 700 bases in the United States and abroad. When military officials say closing some would save Read more »
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Criticism over lack of medals database
last week criticized the Defense Department for failing to create a searchable database of medals recipients, a potential solution to identifying and prosecuting people who falsely claim to have received the honors. Witnesses from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Read more »
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Plan X: Pentagon's blueprint for full-fledged cyberwar
leaders leer at the personal and otherwise private actions on every American’s computer. Now with Plan X, the US Department of Defense wants to make sure that when spying on their own citizen’s computer habits gets boring that they will be able to investigate 1:24 PM from Russia Today Read more »
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Leon Panetta attempts to clean up after his President
which he will brief our allies on America’s new Pacific-oriented defense strategy. In its briefings on the trip, Defense Department officials have stressed the importance of India to U.S. strategy, noting that it is the only country specifically mentioned 11:58 AM from Power Line Read more »
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DoD terminates Iraq Campaign Medal
and Operation New Dawn has been issued by the Pentagon. An order terminating the campaign medal was issued April 23 by the Defense Department, but is effective to Dec. 31, 2011, the day Operation New Dawn ended. This means the ICM is not authorized for service 5/30/12 from Army Times Read more »
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DOD identifies Okinawa-based Marine killed in Afghanistan
FOSTER, Okinawa — An Okinawa-based Marine was killed in action in Afghanistan on Memorial Day, according to the Department of Defense. Sgt. Julian C. Chase, 22, a native of Edgewater, Md., died Monday while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, 4:42 AM from Stars and Stripes Read more »
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An app for fighting swashbuckling pirates
DoD's Armed with Science technology blog which writes about cutting-edge research and development at the Department of Defense, recently mentioned that it will begin funding an Office of Naval Research sponsored project aimed at developing Web applications 5/30/12 from Milblogging.com - Military Blogs Read more »
