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  1. Chief quotas: Best chance to advance in 7 years

    Advancement opportunity for chiefs has risen yet again, marking the highest chance to move up in seven years.

  1. Sex assault charges brought against three midshipman

    Three male midshipmen accused of sexually assaulting a female mid while she was unconscious were charged with rape, sexual assault and other sexual misconduct on Wednesday, a Naval Academy release said.

  2. Papp: CG eyes stronger ties with China

    While the Defense Department may have a tenuous relationship with China, the Coast Guard has forged a bond with the country that's getting stronger.

  1. Navy gets new weather forecasting system

  2. Obama sparks new fight in seeking huge nuke reductions

  3. Senator presses Pentagon on Guantanamo feeding

  4. Military Entrance Processing Command chief removed from duty

  5. House bill would let more vets get private care

  6. Afghan leader backs away from Taliban talks

  7. Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions

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  1. 16 dead: Militants infiltrate U.N.'s Somalia office

    Seven al-Qaida-linked gunmen detonated a pickup rigged with explosives at the gate of the U.N.

    • Jun. 19, 2013
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    Travelers hosts baby shower for 40 military wives

    The Travelers Championship golf tournament has served as host for a giant baby shower.

    • Jun. 19, 2013

  3. Maine man gets 3 years for stealing VA benefits

    A Maine man has been sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently obtaining veterans' disability benefits from the federal government.

    • Jun. 19, 2013
    • NEWS /

    Navy holding hearing on deaths of divers in Md.

    Two members of a Navy dive unit are facing involuntary manslaughter and dereliction-of-duty charges in the drowning deaths of two divers at Aberdeen Proving Ground near Baltimore.

    • Jun. 19, 2013
    • NEWS /
    This undated photo provided by Blue Rider Press/Penguin shows award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings. He died June 18 in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said. Blue Rider Press / Penguin via AP

    Journalist who took down Army four-star dies in car wreck

    Michael Hastings, whose stunning 2010 report for Rolling Stone led to the removal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as head of coalition forces in Afghanistan, died in a fiery car crash Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to numerous media reports.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  6. VA Gulf War panel members walk out to protest changes

    Three members of a Veterans Affairs Department advisory committee on Persian Gulf War illnesses walked out of a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest planned changes to the board's makeup — alterations they say are designed to neuter the often outspoken panel.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  7. Spec Ops may need to be exempt from integrating women, SOCOM official says

    Special Operations Command may require special exemptions from the Pentagon's plan to open all military jobs to women by 2016, a top SOCOM general said Tuesday.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  8. Marley Ungaro sent this photo of her husband, Lt. Andrew Ungaro, and their daughter, Langley, to an online contest seeking the nation's 'hottest dad.' Courtesy of Andrew and Marley Ungaro

    Navy doctor named 'America's Hottest Dad'

    When a website solicited nominations for a national 'Hot Dads' contest, it got a rack of entries — about 1,500 — showing shirtless men displaying their abs while holding their toddlers, soldiers preening in their uniforms and random 30-somethings mugging

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  9. Marine Corps Capt. Paul Gates, commanding officer of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, pauses during a dismounted patrol with Afghan National Civil Order Policemen during Operation California APril 28 in Kajaki district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials. Marine Corps

    U.S., Afghans, Taliban to begin peace talks in Qatar

    Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  10. U.S. may need to fill 'gaps' in Afghan forces after 2014

    The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the Afghan military may need some operational support beyond the planned end of combat operations there in late 2014.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  11. Editorial: A call for common sense

    Inspectors across the Navy and Marine Corps are walking through workspaces, galleys, berthing spaces and even the heads, looking for anything that might be deemed 'offensive' and inappropriate.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  12. National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander testifies June 18 on Capitol Hill before the House Intelligence Committee. J. Scott Applewhite / AP

    Army 4-star defends surveillance program

    The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, in a forceful defense of spy operations that wa

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  13. Plan seeks to hire reservists, vets for border duties

    Reservists and veterans would be actively recruited for border security jobs, with incentives including student loan repayment and signing bonuses, under a bipartisan Senate plan unveiled Monday.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  14. Afghan forces taking security lead nationwide

    Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide, President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday in a significant milestone in the 12-year war.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
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    Big E leaving Norfolk one last time

    The Enterprise is leaving Naval Station Norfolk for the last time.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
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    2 Naval Academy grads killed in Ala. crash

    U.S. Naval Academy officials say two graduates have been killed in a single-vehicle crash in Alabama.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  17. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, talk to media during a news conference at the Pentagon on May 17. Women may be able to begin training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under broad plans Hagel is approving that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in the country's elite special operations forces, according to details of the plans submitted to Hagel that were obtained by the Associated Press. Carolyn Kaster / The Associated Press

    Military plans would put women in most combat jobs

    Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
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    John Harman/Staff

    Inspectors on fleetwide hunt for anything offensive

    Navy and Marine inspectors have less than two weeks to roam all workspaces and community areas to root out anything that hints at being lewd, crude or just plain offensive to your co-workers.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  19. Wilma Rees, 90, of Arizona (right) and her twin sister, Amelia Kizer, 90, of Nebraska, members of the American Rosie the Riveter Association (ARRA), worked on B-17 bombers at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle during World War II. Members of ARRA toured a portion of the former GM Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti Township. The 5-million-square-foot plant was built by Henry Ford to make B-24 bombers for the military during World War II and is likely to be destroyed by GM's bankruptcy trust to make way for new development. James Fassinger / Detroit Free Press

    WWII riveters return one last time to bomber plant

    Rosie the Riveter returned to her factory, just a few months before it's likely to be demolished.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  20. WikiLeaks trial witness: Troop email addresses could be used in cyberattacks

    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.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  21. After almost seven years, the Polar Star is heading into ice trials in the Arctic. PA3 Jordan Akiyama / Coast Guard

    Polar Star gets back to work

    After almost seven years out of commission, and a reactivation cost of $90 million, a Coast Guard heavy icebreaker is back in action.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  22. 2 female pilots among six service members selected to be astronauts

    NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  23. Active, former Navy aviators among 8 new astronaut trainees

    Two Navy aviators — one active, one former — are among NASA's latest astronaut trainees, a group of eight individuals selected from more than 6,100 applicants, the agency announced Monday.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  24. Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, right, has asked a judge to allow his defamation to go forward against the wife of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, left. The Associated Press

    Ventura wants 'American Sniper' lawsuit to proceed

    MINNEAPOLIS Attorneys for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura asked a federal judge Monday to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain 'American Sniper' author Chris Kyle to go forward with Kyle's widow as the defendant.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  25. Some Wisconsin National Guard members face furloughs

    Hundreds of Wisconsin National Guard members face furloughs as the result of the automatic federal budget cuts that took effect earlier this year.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

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