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Pentagon opens more military jobs to women The Pentagon will lift parts of its longtime ban on women serving in combat units, but only a small fraction of the force will be affected, officials announced Thursday.

Drug raids

Troops seized 772K lbs. of Afghan drugs in 2011 Drug raids are increasingly used as a counterinsurgency tactic to cut off funding for Afghan militants, who have relied on opium and other narcotics sales to bankroll decades of conflict.

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Afghan opium value up 133 percent in 2011

Spec ops in Afghanistan

Spec ops to grow as Pentagon budget shrinks U.S. Special Operations command will grow from about 67,000 forces to 70,000 during the next five years — even as the Defense Department plans to cut $259 billion across the same period.

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Afghanistan exit

Officer paints dismal picture of Afghanistan Lt. Col. Daniel Davis says "the men who do the living, fighting and dying deserve — to have our leaders tell us the truth about what's going on."

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Davis’ essay on ArmedForcesJournal.com

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Sayles set to fight

Three-time Army Combatives winner Staff Sgt. Brandon Sayles will brawl tonight at XFC 16, which will be broadcast live on HDNet.

HUMANISM

Officer seeks recognition

Maj. Ray Bradley is applying to be the first humanist recognized as a “distinctive faith group leader” by the Army.

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Undead bin Laden

In “Osombie and the Axis of Evil Dead,” al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden has returned from his watery grave.

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