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  1. NATO solders walk toward a Chinook helicopter June 18 after a ceremony at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide.

    Karzai suspends talks with U.S. over Taliban move

    The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find ways to end the nearly 12-year war.

  1. Honor proposed for Puerto Rico-based Army unit

  2. Travelers hosts baby shower for 40 military wives

  1. Fort Belvoir to open East Coast's largest Exchange

  2. Maine man gets 3 years for stealing VA benefits

  3. Prime ContentNew rules: No booze, 9 p.m. curfews at training posts

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

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

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

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

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  1. 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

  2. La. Guard's top enlisted adviser fired

    The Louisiana National Guard's highest officer has fired his top enlisted adviser for alleged sexual harassment.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  3. 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
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    Former soldier seeks custody of child born to 14-year-old

    A central Missouri couple is concerned that a former soldier will be granted visitation or custody of the child he conceived with their 14-year-old daughter.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  5. 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

  6. 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
  7. Hawaii Rep. Mark Takai

    Hawaii rep to be promoted in Army National Guard

    Hawaii state Rep. Mark Takai is getting a promotion in the Hawaii Army National Guard.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  8. Arizona Guardsman sentenced on Mass. drug charges

    A sergeant in the Arizona National Guard who served in Iraq has been sentenced to three years in a Massachusetts prison after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme to move $1 million worth of cocaine from Mexico to Canada.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
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    Workplace cleanup underway for offensive material

    Workplace inspections are underway across the Army for material that might be construed as inappropriate, degrading or offensive.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  10. 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
  11. 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

  12. 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
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    Ranger's parachute death under investigation

    A team from the Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center is investigating an apparent parachuting mishap that killed an Army Ranger who had just returned from a deployment to Afghanistan.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  14. 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

  15. Thieves steal motorcycles, camper from wounded Special Forces soldier

    A Special Forces soldier who lost his legs to a bomb in Afghanistan but returned to the Army is grappling with the loss of his motorcycles and a camper from his parents' North Carolina home.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  16. 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
  17. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno called sexual harassment and assault the biggest problem facing the service. Lisa Ferdinando / Army

    Leaders renew resolve to stop sex assault

    The Army has issued a mea culpa: We have failed soldiers, we've lost their trust, and we are committed to getting it back again.

    • Jun. 16, 2013

  18. Ky. Guard plans aviation facility expansion

    A plan to relocate and expand hangar space to house Kentucky National Guard helicopters is meeting some resistance from neighbors.

    • Jun. 16, 2013

  19. Consideration of Syria no-fly zone relies on Iraq experience

    The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria's civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts.

    • Jun. 16, 2013

  20. Afghans poised to take security lead from U.S., NATO

    One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are taking the lead for security nationwide, bringing the moment of truth on the question of whether they are re

    • Jun. 16, 2013
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    New training documents focus on Africa, Pacific

    The Army has published a new training document to help units prepare for engagements, missions and exercises in Africa.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
  22. Ahmed Zuhair poses June 14 for a photo backdropped by the four-faced clock, atop the Abraj Al-Bait Towers, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Zuhair, a former sheep merchant who was never charged with any crime during seven years at Guantanamo, stopped eating in June 2005 and kept up his protest until he was sent home to Saudi Arabia in 2009. The Associated Press

    Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed

    For more than three months, the U.S.

    • Jun. 15, 2013
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    Pfc. Christopher P. Dona was killed June 13 in an apparent parachuting mishap. Army via AP

    Army names 21-year-old Ranger killed in mishap

    The Army Ranger killed in an apparent parachuting mishap was a 21-year-old veteran from Massachusetts who recently returned from Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

    • Jun. 15, 2013

  24. Search planned for missing Bragg soldier

    Another search is planned for a missing Fort Bragg soldier who disappeared more than a year ago.

    • Jun. 15, 2013

  25. Guilty verdict in classified Cambodia papers case

    A military jury on Friday convicted a Hawaii-based Army officer of unauthorized possession of classified documents and giving a document with classified assessments of Cambodia to a person not entitled to have it.

    • Jun. 15, 2013

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