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  1. The modified 'batwing' design has tools to remotely defeat improvised explosive devices, including a hook for grabbing or cutting command wire, a rake for breaking up soil, and a spade for moving and digging up items.

    'Batwing' attachment adds new wrinkle to iRobot IED hunters

    The Army's EOD iRobot 310 SUGV has helped soldiers successfully detect improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, but a new attachment known as the 'batwing' is helping them do it from a safer distance.

  1. From boyhood to battlefield: Long war takes its toll

  2. Senators: Limit recruits' athletic shoe choices to U.S.-made footwear

  1. West Point grads eager to step up and serve

  2. Troops offered deals for Memorial Day

  3. Bill would require mental health checkup every 6 months for deployed troops

  4. DoD school director to retire in August

  5. Army vet charged in policeman's slaying found dead in cell

  6. Town turns out to welcome injured Ranger home

  7. Lawmakers want DoD to study whether Tricare may cover horse therapy

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    Biographer regrets affair with David Petraeus

    The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.

    • May. 24, 2013

  2. Tricare approves waivers for beneficiaries in tornado-affected Oklahoma

    Tricare is waiving required referrals for specialty care and emergency prescription refills for its beneficiaries in Oklahoma affected by the May 20 tornado.

    • May. 24, 2013
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    Bush hosts bike ride for combat veterans

    Former President George W. Bush is hosting a 100-kilometer mountain bike ride at his Central Texas ranch for military members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    • May. 24, 2013
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    Former major league pitcher Chris Ray pours one of his baseball-themed beers May 22 at The Diamond in Richmond, Va. The specialty brew will be sold at the Double AA minor league Richmond Flying Squirrels' baseball game May 23. The proceeds are given to military families. Joe Mahoney / The Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP

    Brewers team up on beer to help military families

    Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats.

    • May. 24, 2013

  5. June list for sgt., staff sgt. announced

    These soldiers have been selected for promotion to sergeant or staff sergeant in June, the Army announced Thursday:

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Panel rejects Pentagon's request for base closings

    A new round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    President Obama talks about national security May 23 at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

    Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones

    President Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S.

    • May. 23, 2013

  8. June sergeant selections, A-L

    These NCO have been selected for promotion in June, the Army announced:

    • May. 23, 2013
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    June 2013 staff sergeant promotions

    These NCO have been selected for promotion in June, the Army announced:

    • May. 23, 2013
    • NEWS /

    West Point cadets rescue 2 kayakers

    Two West Point cadets are being credited with rescuing two stranded kayakers on the Hudson River.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Senator: West Point incident illustrates culture of sexual misconduct in military

    Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Thursday.

    • May. 23, 2013

  12. Warrant officer candidates list is out

    The Army has announced these names and projected specialties of soldiers and other U.S.

    • May. 23, 2013

  13. Lawmakers make pre-Memorial Day calls to fix vet claims backlog

    In a pre-Memorial Day push to show their concern about the backlog of veterans' disability claims, House Republicans are calling for an independent task force to recommend a solution while House Democrats pushed the idea of providing temporary benefits to

    • May. 23, 2013
  14. DoD acquisition chief Frank Kendall said the Pentagon will create its own electronic health record system using commercial software. Tom Pennington/Getty Images

    Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records

    The Defense Department is abandoning its plans to build a single, joint electronic health record system with the Veterans Affairs Department in favor of developing its own system using commercial software.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Pacific Army head calls for Stryker Brigade review

    The head of the U.S. Army in the Pacific says Hawaii's Stryker Brigade needs review amid military budget cuts.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech

    President Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 91

    Former World War II Army squad leader and Medal of Honor recipient Vernon McGarity has died at 91.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Retired Army Lt. Col. Richard A. Lester, left, and Atlanta History Center President and CEO Sheffield Hale look over the Army seal May 13 at the nearly finished Veterans Park at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta. Jason Getz / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

    Battleground soil given place of honor in Atlanta

    It seemed like a mission impossible, but Richard A. Lester believed it could be done.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Surplus military trucks get new lives

    They've served their country well. Getting parked in a nondescript dirt lot sure doesn't seem like much of a final resting place.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Cheers, shouts, thumbs up, 'V' signs and general jubilation shows in the expressions of the released POWs in March 1973 as their C-141 plane lifts off from Gia Lam Airport taking them to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Air Force via AP

    Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

    Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Soldier was target of brutal attack in London

    The British government's emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

    Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.

    • May. 23, 2013
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    4 leg exercises with little or no equipment

    You really can do leg exercises without the isolation-style or massive leg press machines found in most gyms. No more leg extension or leg curl machines. No need to find a leg abductor/adductor combo or hoist a 45-pound Olympic bar.

    • May. 22, 2013

  24. Senior NCO promotions announced for June

    The Army's list of senior NCOs chosen to move up in June includes many who must re-enlist in order to be promoted:

    • May. 22, 2013
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    Stolen Valor Act on the way to White House

    The Stolen Valor Act that makes it a federal crime to profit from falsely claiming to have received a military medal for valor is on its way to the White House for President Obama's signature, thanks to the efforts of two Nevadans.

    • May. 22, 2013

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