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        <title><![CDATA[4 US troops killed in Afghanistan, officials say]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Defense officials say four U.S. troops were killed Tuesday at or near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Retired Vietnam veteran works to honor war dogs with monument]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Retired Air Force veteran Larry Chilcoat has carried Geisha's picture in his wallet for 43 years. Geisha, a war dog, was assigned to Chilcoat during the Vietnam War in 1969. He still thinks about her.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What it takes to become an Army Ranger ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As the military looks to bring women into combat jobs closer to the front lines, including commando units, senior leaders are reviewing the physical and mental requirements that troops must meet in order to qualify for certain positions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[NJ governor backs employment help for vets, support for those with PTSD]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gov. Chris Christie was warmly received Thursday morning at the American Legion convention as he announced initiatives to help veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and looking for jobs after they complete their service.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,103 ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Islamists drive 19,000 farmers from north Nigeria ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scientists seek to neutralize fertilizer often used for Taliban bombs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The four Pentagon scientists gathered at a secret base about an hour's drive from Washington. The three younger scientists wore camouflage jackets and dark, wraparound sunglasses. The fourth was 61-year-old Bob Best who has thick eyeglasses and thinning hair. He was about to build a bomb.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shinseki’s style: Determined, quiet]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s first 100 days included three bold mandates for Eric Shinseki: end the benefits backlog, end veterans homelessness, and enable seamless sharing of medical records between the defense and veterans affairs departments.

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        <title><![CDATA[Pentagon wants more progress from UnitedHealthcare on $20.5B contract]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has extended for a second time an emergency measure to address problems UnitedHealthcare Military & Veterans has had in administering a $20.5 billion contract that provides medical services to military members, retirees and their families.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maine Senate passes bill regulating police use of drones]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Police would have to get a warrant in most cases before using unmanned aerial aircraft, or drones, under a bill initially passed by the Maine Senate on Monday night.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[DOD readies service-by-service plan for women in combat]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Leaders from each service branch and U.S. Special Operations Command laid out road maps Tuesday to begin moving female troops toward the front lines of combat, but said the process would proceed deliberately over the course of years, and be accompanied by a host of studies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Living memorial outgrows space in somber reflection of the wars’ toll]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unlike memorials created after a conflict ends, providing only the chance to look back on history, this one is a living memorial, growing along with the death toll. It presents a visual record of the human cost of war as it’s being paid — a powerful opportunity for reflection while the country can still change the path it has chosen.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poland, Germany probe Nazi-led unit commander ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have enough evidence to press charges and request his extradition from the United States.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jordanian-led exercise poses unique challenges to US Marines]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It’s hot, barren and isolated, and the living conditions for the 2,400 Marines here assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are spartan.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Missing American teenager in Germany returns home]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An American teenager missing in Germany was found alive and well Tuesday and is “safely back in parental custody,” according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army garrison in Ansbach, from which he disappeared more than a week ago.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the civilian-veteran divide to you? Readers respond]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does America need to know about its veterans? What’s the biggest divide between those who have served and those who haven’t? We asked readers to weigh in on those questions, and here’s how you responded.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spangdahlem fighter squadron closing after 60 years in Europe]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When it was time to furl the guidon at the 81st Fighter Squadron’s inactivation ceremony Tuesday, the only A-10 Thunderbolt II in the hangar was a small concrete replica of the squadron’s aircraft on display near the stage.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Germans strike pay raise deal for on-base workers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[German civilians working for the U.S. military are all but assured a pay raise that includes a one-time payout to be made about the same time American defense employees in the country are furloughed.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Afghan forces take over responsibility for security from NATO]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday that Afghan troops will begin the final step toward taking full responsibility for security in all of Afghanistan, amid continued fighting in much of the country and stepped up attacks in the capital, including an explosion shortly before Karzai’s speech.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pratt & Whitney says it will pay for F-35B’s grounding]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit and its subcontractors will pay the entire cost of grounding the Pentagon’s F-35B fighters in January because of a propulsion-system flaw, the unit’s top official said.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[South Korea begins bidding for $7.3 billion fighter buy ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[South Korea has begun accepting bids from aircraft makers to supply 60 new fighter jets at an estimated cost of $7.3 billion (8.3 trillion won).]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA['The eyes of the world are on Gettysburg']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gettysburg, a Pennsylvania town used to visitors, is preparing for its biggest-ever tourist event. More than 400 events are planned from June 28 through July 7 in and around the town and Gettysburg National Military Park to mark the Battle of Gettysburg's 150th anniversary.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Seeking influence, China hosts Mideast peace forum ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[China on Tuesday hosted a Mideast peace forum backing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, part of its quest for greater diplomatic influence in a region of growing importance to its economy.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Viewing the 'Arc of Chaos']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The much broader and longer "Arc of Chaos", actually stretches from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, only Israel, Jordan and the Gulf states (with the exception of Bahrain), have escaped the encompassing and growing anarchy.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[US appoints envoy in bid to close Guantanamo detainee prison]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration announced Monday that it has chosen a longtime Washington attorney who has worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations to find a way to close down the terrorist detainee prison at the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Israeli politician says two-state solution is at a 'dead end']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The idea of a Palestinian state is a "dead end," the Mideast conflict is an intractable problem and Israel has "to live with it," Israel's economy minister said Monday in some of the bluntest comments yet by a member of the country's coalition government.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Timeline: Military women moving into jobs closer to combat ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Law passed making women a permanent part of the U.S. military services.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Libya, chaos is taking a toll on freedom of press, speech]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shortly after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in 2011, a 31-year-old activist had a tattoo put on his arm with the date marking the start of the uprising and rebranded himself a journalist.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hope grows that Iran could pull back from nuclear standoff]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The surprising election of Hassan Rowhani, a moderate cleric, as Iran's president has prompted a wave of speculation about a critical question: Will Iran's new leadership be more willing to compromise on its nuclear program?]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Iran's president-elect called his nation's strained relations with the United States "an old wound" that would take time to heal but signaled Monday that Tehran was ready to work to reduce tensions with Washington and the West.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced at a ceremony on Tuesday that his country's armed forces are taking over the lead for security nationwide from the U.S.-led NATO coalition.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama said Monday that Iran's election of a relative moderate shows that the country's people want to change course. But he stressed that Tehran still needs to show the international community that it's not pursuing a nuclear weapon.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Army colonel in Japan suspended; civilian deputy reassigned]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Army has suspended more officials at its Tokyo headquarters pending the outcome of an investigation into alleged misconduct, officials say.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[U.S. and South Korean officials will hold their third annual joint anti-bioterrorism exercise this week in Seoul, a sprawling mega-city of more than 10 million residents that some fear could someday become a target of an attack.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantanamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees — men too dangerous to transfer but who cannot be tried in a court of law.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent - even though they are authorized in secret.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Groundwork for arming Syrian rebels began before Obama’s announcement]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise currently being held in Jordan as a cover for bringing in personnel and equipment.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[A huge database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday as the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning entered its third week.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sexual assault case at Naval Academy moves to Article 32]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Three Naval Academy football players alleged to have sexually assaulted a female midshipman will face an Article 32 hearing, a Naval Academy spokesman said Monday.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Accused 9/11 plotters back in Guantanamo war court]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks returned to the war court Monday for a week-long pretrial hearing, four months after defense lawyers discovered listening devices in their confidential meeting rooms.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Support is available for families of Oklahoma troops]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ He left for training in February, then for Afghanistan a couple months later.

But Sgt. Jeffery Argyle, 32, of the Oklahoma National Guard, is not completely gone.

Haley Argyle, 31, knows her husband, J.J., will call most mornings at 8:30 and again when he goes to bed, 2 p.m. her time.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Charles Moore Jr. is no stranger to the fears and anxieties of war, having flown more than 600 combat hours in fighter jets and now serving as a commander of a collection of squadrons responsible for more than 130 aircraft that comprise the Air Force’s most diverse flying wing.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Expect only seven more captives to be charged at the war court, the chief Pentagon prosecutor said Sunday, offering a much reduced vision of the scope of the special court after a federal court setback.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tour guide Ahmed Shihab cried when he saw how thieves ravaged an ancient burial site here that includes a pyramid dating back nearly 4,000 years.

“This is our history and heritage, and they are selling it at a cheap, cheap price,” he said.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[For years, Hal Miller wouldn’t talk about landing on Utah Beach and the subsequent D-Day invasion. How, with his twin by his side in Normandy on June 6, 1944, he witnessed history. But now — thanks to the social networking platform Twitter — his story is being shared to remind younger generations of the sacrifices and horrors of World War II.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Wisconsin National Guard members will be furloughed for 11 days as part of the federal sequestration.

The sequester will affect roughly 700 people who are considered Department of Defense technicians, which range from pilots and mechanics to folks who work in finance and human resources. National Guard members recently received word of just how many furlough days, which had been rumored to be as many as 20.

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        <description><![CDATA[From property tax breaks to high school diplomas to expedited licensing for certain professions, 2013 is becoming a banner year for veterans in Michigan.

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