US Navy dispatches destroyer, P-3C in search of Malaysian airliner

The U.S. Navy has dispatched the USS Pinckney and a P-3C Orion aircraft to assist in the search of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday morning.

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Ukrainian official: More Russian troops have arrived in Crimea

The Associated Press reported seeing a convoy of military trucks, some bearing Russian license plates, rumbling toward Simferopol, the Crimean capital. Seated inside were heavily armed soldiers.

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Military Update

Budget documents: Commissaries to be run as business, not benefit

Behind the plan to slash taxpayer support of commissaries is a concept Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his senior advisors have embraced that base grocery stores should operate as a business and not a benefit.

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Commissary prices expected to increase after budget cuts

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General's tearful accuser describes forced oral sex, violence

Sobbing and burying her head in her hands, a U.S. Army captain testified Friday that Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair twice forced her to perform oral sex in her office in Afghanistan after she demanded he remove her from her job working directly for him.

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Soldier coordinating sex assault program charged in prostitution case

Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended after assault allegation

Pentagon outlines ideas for hybrid retirement system

Amid attempts to reduce military personnel spending, the Pentagon on Thursday presented its official thinking on the politically touchy issue of how remake the military retirement system.

Punishment for soldier's non-salute selfie will be kept secret

The punishment of a Fort Carson soldier, who caused internet outrage with a ‘selfie’ of her avoiding saluting the flag, will be kept secret, officials on the post said Friday.

National Guard soldier suspended over ‘distasteful’ military funeral photos and comments

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Malaysia Airlines plane may have turned back, military chief says

There was still no confirmed sighting of debris in the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam where Flight MH370 vanished from screens early Saturday morning en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
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Banging on drums and waving "Sayonara nukes" signs, thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park and marched to Parliament Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.

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Rediscovered trenches bring WWI to life in England

Two lines of trenches face off across No Man's Land. A soldier marches, rifle in hand, along a ditch. These are instantly familiar images of World War I — but this is Britain, a century on and an English Channel away from the battlefields of the Western Front.
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Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended after assault allegation March 6, 2014
US Navy dispatches destroyer, P-3C in search of Malaysian airliner March 8, 2014
Malaysia Airlines plane may have turned back, military chief says March 9, 2014
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General's tearful accuser describes forced oral sex, violence March 8, 2014
Fort Carson: Punishment for soldier's non-salute selfie will be kept secret March 7, 2014
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