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Bleak budget picture takes toll on enlisteds

Enlisted airmen are nervous about keeping their jobs because of speculation about defense cuts, and the brass only add to their anxiety when they keep insisting everything is fair game, according to the service’s top enlisted leaders.

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Suspected Cole bombing mastermind charged

The No. 1 suspect in the planning of the October 2000 attack on the destroyer Cole has been formally charged and could be sentenced to death if convicted, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.

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Bleak budget picture takes toll on enlisteds

Enlisted airmen are nervous about keeping their jobs because of speculation about defense cuts, and the brass only add to their anxiety when they keep insisting everything is fair game, according to the service’s top enlisted leaders.

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Bleak budget picture takes toll on enlisteds

Enlisted airmen are nervous about keeping their jobs because of speculation about defense cuts, and the brass only add to their anxiety when they keep insisting everything is fair game, according to the service’s top enlisted leaders.

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Lawmakers: Military homeowners need more help

Twelve members of Congress have sent a letter to officials at the Treasury Department, Housing and Urban Development Department, Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Securities and Exchange Commission urging them to help military homeowners hurt by the housing market … Continue reading

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Pocket robots gain ground with Marines

It takes guts to be the point man breaching a door and heading into the unknown. What’s on the other side? It could be an empty room. There could be a family huddled in the corner. Or a Marine could … Continue reading

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Aircrews use tablets as ‘electronic flight bag’

The flight bag jammed with maps, performance logs, operations manuals and more is a thing of the past for a growing number of airmen.

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Army to cut nearly 50,000 soldiers over 5 years

The Army is preparing to launch in March a five-year, nearly 50,000-soldier drawdown, using a combination of accession cuts and voluntary and involuntary separations, similar to the post-Cold War drawdown of the 1990s, according to Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, … Continue reading

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Combat controller to receive Silver Star

A combat controller whose airstrikes helped his team overcome daunting odds during a pair of 2009 missions in Afghanistan is to receive the Silver Star today during a ceremony at Pope Field, N.C

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Greenert takes over for retiring CNO Roughead

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Adm. Jon Greenert assumed the helm of the Navy in a ceremony before hundreds at the Naval Academy on Friday, becoming the 30th chief of naval operations.

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