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  1. Chance to advance drops; names due this week

    More than 80,000 active-duty and full-time support sailors who passed their Cycle 219 advancement exams in March will find out whether they've advanced later this week, though their chance to move up has decreased from last year.

  1. MCPON calls on chiefs in fight against sexual assaults

  2. House panel poised to reject lower pay raise, Tricare fee hikes

  1. Lawmakers prepare sweeping changes to military's sexual assault laws

  2. Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

  3. Coast Guardsman admits desertion

  4. GOP lawmakers seek limits on missile defense cooperation with Russia

  5. House passes bill giving disabled vets expedited airport screenings

  6. FBI identifies Benghazi suspects — but no arrests yet

  7. U.S. lawmakers seek Asia missile defense safeguard

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    VA closing in on mental health hiring goal

    The Veterans Affairs Department is 240 people shy of meeting a goal to hire 1,600 new mental health professionals by June 30, VA officials said Tuesday.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, is escorted into a courthouse May 21 in Fort Meade, Md., before a pretrial military hearing. Patrick Semansky / AP

    WikiLeaks prosecutor accepts plea to 1 count

    The government will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 700,000 classified U.S.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Mothers in uniform get room on base to nurse young

    Army civilian personnel specialist Tracey Leven recalls the time she tried to use a breast pump to express milk in a military office years ago. Instead of 'breast pump in use,' she was required to put a sign on the door reading, '

    • May. 21, 2013
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    A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. AP file

    Court: U.S. can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

    A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Annapolis to host football bowl game this December

    The Naval Academy will be the first-ever service school to host a college football bowl game on campus this December — and the name couldn't be more appropriate.

    • May. 21, 2013

  6. VA partners with DAV, American Legion on faster claims

    The Veterans Affairs Department's latest initiative to try to reduce the backlog of compensation claims is a partnership with the American Legion and Disabled American Veterans to help veterans make sure their file has all the essential information.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Bad behavior prompts review of 7th Fleet sailor records

    After yet another string of embarrassing incidents, leaders in 7th Fleet are cracking down on bad sailor behavior.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Wounded Iraq vet now says he will remain alive

    Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war veteran who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said that he has decided to live for now.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Unclaimed veterans' remains buried

    The unclaimed remains of 35 military veterans, including some from World War I, and two military wives have been given formal military burials in Northern California.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Northwestern Health Sciences University chiropractor Zachary Zachman examines Patrick Nelson, a former Army paratrooper, May 6 in Bloomington, Minn. Thousands of Minnesota soldiers are returning from war with chronic pain from injuries that leave many of them impaired and even disabled. Jessica Mador / Minnesota Public Radio via AP

    Analysis: Chronic pain affects growing number of vets

    Thousands of Minnesota soldiers are returning from war with chronic pain from injuries that leave many of them impaired and even disabled, and there's been a steep increase in such injuries over the past decade.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Navy: Dolphin finds 130-year-old torpedo off San Diego

    The Navy says a trained dolphin has found a 130-year-old torpedo off the San Diego coast.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Feds want to stop travel for man charged in Navy theft

    Federal prosecutors want to stop a former manager at a Navy bombing range in North Carolina from taking a cruise to the Bahamas, saying he may never return to face charges of stealing more than $6 million worth of scrap metal.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    SBA starting new lending program for veterans

    The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands May 6 with his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Xi will confer with President Barack Obama in June in California. Jason Lee / AP

    China's Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected

    China's new leader, Xi Jinping, will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Oiler Merrimack sailing to recycling bin

    The USS Merrimack will be recycled in the city where it was built.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    2 contractors sentenced in Navy bribery scheme

    A federal judge has given three-year prison sentences to two San Diego defense contractors convicted of fraud in a scheme to bribe Navy officials with more than $1 million in cash and gifts.

    • May. 21, 2013
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    Plebes attempt to climb Herndon Monument and retrieve a plebe's dixie cup hat and replace it with a midshipman's cover at the Naval Academy on May 20. Mike Morones/Staff

    Gallery: Plebes complete Herndon climb

    The Class of 2016 took 1 hour, 32 minutes and 43 seconds to remove a 'Dixie cup' cover from the top of the Herndon Monument, marking the end of their plebe year at the Naval Academy.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Governor deploys Okla. Guard to assist after tornado

    Search-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    The Navy has cut spending on command challenge coins. Alan Lessig/Staff

    Navy suspends spending on command coins

    First, massive budget cuts waylaid fleet weeks, Blue Angels shows and 4th Fleet deployments.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    The Navy's re-enlistment system is too bureaucratic, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert says. Pictured, sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson re-up. MC2 James R. Evans / Navy

    PTS needs overhaul, CNO says

    If you've got problems with Perform to Serve, you're not alone. The Navy's top officer has his own issues with the re-enlistment system — and he wants them fixed.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    2 San Diego contractors sentenced in Navy bribery scheme

    A federal judge has given three-year prison sentences to two San Diego defense contractors convicted of fraud in a scheme to bribe Navy officials with more than $1 million in cash and gifts.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    New Stolen Valor Act passes House 390-3

    The Stolen Valor Act, a bill making it illegal to profit from falsely claiming to have received a military valor medal, has passed the House of Representatives again on a 390-3 vote.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Pentagon wants $79.4B for Afghanistan War in 2014

    The Pentagon has asked Congress to approve $79.4 billion for combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014.

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Injured veteran finds outlet at Warrior Games

    Sgt. Evan Davis could talk for hours about the intricacies and techniques behind competitive air-rifle shooting. But he can summarize it best as '90 percent mental and 10 percent fundamental.'

    • May. 20, 2013
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    Draft report touts Reserves as bargain

    The Defense Department is preparing to send a controversial report to Congress that explains in detail how Reserve-component troops are substantially cheaper than active-duty members — an official analysis that is likely to fuel a growing debate about the

    • May. 20, 2013

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