Military Times - News:
TOKYO — Japanese police identified an American soldier Thursday as the prime suspect in a fatal-hit-and-run accident on the southern island of Okinawa and asked the U.S. Army to bring him in for further questioning.The incide (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those who fought in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were (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 command (Read More)
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Naval Academy leaders removed two midshipmen from a color guard that performed at the World Series last week because they were white men, and replaced them with a non-white man and a white woman so the academy could present a (Read More)
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As the Coast Guard plans a Friday memorial service, officials are offering few details on the possible causes for a mid-air collision between the service’s C-130 Hercules transport plane and a Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra o (Read More)
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LOS ANGELES — With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell Monday on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and a Coast Guard plane (Read More)
Military Times - News:
The commander of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., was fired Friday afternoon for loss of confidence in his ability to lead.Col. Joel S. Westa was the second wing commander at Minot to lose his job in October. (Read More)
Military Times - News:
SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard and Navy were still hoping Friday to find survivors of a collision between a Coast Guard plane carrying seven people and a Marine Corps helicopter carrying two off the Southern California coast.The (Read More)
Military Times - News:
When Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach took his fight public to stay in the Air Force, he never told the millions watching him on national TV exactly how his commanders came to learn he is gay.Fehrenbach, 40, talked about his 18 yea (Read More)
Military Times - News:
SAN ANTONIO — Retired Army Sgt. Richard Yarosh has gotten used to the stares. His face is blanketed in knotty scar tissue. His nose tip is missing. His ears are gone, as is part of his right leg. His fingers are permanently b (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
Rep. Jeff Flake, serving his fifth term in Congress, is a fifth-generation Arizonan, raised on a ranch near the town of Snowflake. He served a Mormon mission in southern Africa, worked for a public affairs firm in Washington, (Read More)
Military Times - News:
The family of a sailor slain in Newport News, Va., is pressing the Navy to court-martial and dishonorably discharge the fellow sailor convicted of killing her.Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has already weighed in, telling the Navy (Read More)
Military Times - Guard & Reserve:
About 90 Hawaii National Guard members left Wednesday for American Samoa to help in the recovery efforts on the Pacific island, National Guard officials said. Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs from the 154th Wing, an associate unit b (Read More)
American Forces Information Services - News Articles:
A new social media policy being prepared for presentation to the Defense Department's top leaders will balance the pros and cons of social networking sites, the department's top public affairs official said. (Read More)
Military Times - News:
Elmo, Cookie Monster and their buddies are taking their Sesame Street message to military children at bases in Europe, Alaska and Hawaii.The Muppet USO tour started Sept. 8 at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom. Military ch (Read More)
Military Times - News:
A graphic photograph of a mortally wounded Marine released for publication Thursday by The Associated Press — over the objections of the family and the Pentagon — has reignited the debate over how to juggle combat coverage wi (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
Wilson P. Dizard Jr., 87, a retired Foreign Service officer and author who specialized in public affairs and telecommunications work and became a consultant on communications and information policy, died Aug. 31 at Sibley Mem (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Tesla Motors has hired Ricardo Reyes away from Google as the company’s first Vice President of Communications. Reyes is currently the head of global communications and public affairs at YouTube. Reyes will officially join Tes (Read More)
Military Times - News:
Apology accepted — by the chief, if not by you.Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, has offered a mea culpa for telling a joke to a Marine Corps audience that used the Air Force as the punch line, acco (Read More)
Military Times - News:
The Defense Department is all a-Twitter about whether to allow service members continued access to highly popular social networking sites on government computers because of network security, bandwidth and privacy concerns, a (Read More)