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The US military says 4 of its service members were killed in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan

— Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. service members in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday. Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military force said in a...

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Arctic expedition seeks alternative fuel

US Coast Guard vessel Polar Sea is taking an expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea. Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research...

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Date me, I'ma racist

Date me, I'ma racist Altmuslimah My naïve nineteen-year-old self tried to explain that I, being a good Muslim girl, just didn't date. It was me, not him. He was not convinced that there may be a possibility I was just not into...

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Manhattan Army Cadet Named Rhodes Scholar

Manhattan Army Cadet Named Rhodes Scholar DNAinfo Alexandra Rosenberg, a Senior at the United States Military at West Point studying Sociology, was named a 2009 Rhodes Scholar. Rosenberg will study Global Health Science at...

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Sarah Palin's book tour his NC's Fort Bragg

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin signs a copy her her autobiography, "Going Rogue", at the North Post Exchange at Fort Bragg, N.C., Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Sarah Palin brought her book-signing tour to North Carolina's Fort Bragg...

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Obama, the Teabaggers and Foreign Policy

Obama, the Teabaggers and Foreign Policy Huffington Post (blog) If you have been following what America's right-wing blogers and radio talk-show hosts have been saying about President Barak Obama's just-concluded trip to the...

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Pakistan troops kill 12 militants

Javno.hr Pakistan troops kill 12 militants Javno.hr A senior security official confirmed the operation, saying that paramilitary troops entered Shahukhel area in Orkazai on Monday. A US Army convoy patrols in Kandahar on...

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BAE Systems receives $61 million Army contract

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Defense contractor BAE Systems has been awarded Army contract modifications worth $60.6 million for Bradley fighting vehicles, launch rocket systems and ambulances. Much of the contract award, $54.4...

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Fort Hood soldiers prepare for battle with scars from rampage (AFP)

AFP - Countless commanders in the US Army have prepared battalions for war since the terrorist attacks of September 11, but none of them had do it after losing soldiers in a shooting spree on a home base.

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Remarks at the Defense Information Technology Acquisition Summit

As Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III, Grand Hyatt, Washington D.C., Thursday, November 12, 2009 Thanks very much, Mike. This is especially true with information technology where innovation happens...

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