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About 9,600 current and former Marines are eligible for at least $500 through a new program that pays troops for the months they were kept on active duty by the Defense Department’s stop-loss policy, Marine officials said.The program pays active-duty, former and retired service members $500 for every month and partial month (Read More)
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FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of (Read More)
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DANANG, Vietnam — On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.Le piloted the USS Lassen on Saturday into Danang, home of China Beach, (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey warned Sunday against focusing on the Muslim faith of the suspected Fort Hood shooter.Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist at Fort Hood, Texas, is suspected of shooting 13 and wounding 29 during last week’s rampage.Casey said focusing on Hasan’s Muslim background could “h (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as “all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable” because it occurred on the nation’s largest Army post.He praised those who ended the shootings, which killed 13 and wounde (Read More)
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TOKYO — Japan’s foreign minister said Sunday that no deal on relocating U.S. troops on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa can be expected during President Barack Obama’s visit this week, saying the issue needs more time to resolve.Obama is scheduled to arrive Friday, and a meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is (Read More)
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When Nouriel Roubini talks, the world listens. Roubini is, of course, the once-obscure New York University economist whose dire warnings about a financial crisis proved depressingly prophetic. Last week, Roubini was shouting. Writing in the Financial Times, he warned that the Federal Reserve and other government central ban (Read More)
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The Post asked military experts and others for insights about Thursday's shootings. Below are contributions from Bing West, Alex Gallo, Kayt Sukel, Scott Quilty, Fran Hanlon and Ann Wright. (Read More)
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FORT HOOD, TEX . -- Military and federal officials investigating Thursday's mass shooting at this sprawling Army post spent the weekend poring over evidence they seized from the apartment of the alleged shooter, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, including his computer and multiple e-mail accounts he may...
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KABUL -- Afghan officials said Saturday that a NATO airstrike had inadvertently killed several Afghan soldiers and policemen a day earlier in northwestern Afghanistan.
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A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base. At least 13 died and more than two dozen were wounded. (Read More)
Military Times - News:
NEW YORK — The Fox NFL pregame show Sunday will be broadcast from a military installation in Afghanistan.The six-man announcing crew traveled to an undisclosed location in the country this week to honor service members three days before Veterans Day. The two-hour show begins at 11 a.m. Eastern.The network said idea came abo (Read More)