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Classified documents provide window into realities of Afghanistan war

"A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the […]
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CIA drones target unnamed suspects in Pakistan

According to counter-terrorism officials, the "CIA received secret permission to attack a wider range of targets, including suspected militants whose names are not known, as part of a dramatic expansion […]
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Army trauma units failing to meet needs of soldiers

James Dao and Dan Frosch, of The New York Times, report on Warrior Transition Units that were created in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal. Meant as safe havens for […]
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Personality disorder used to discharge soldiers, strip them of benefits

A report by Joshua Kors in The Nation explores the Army's fraudulent use of personality disorder diagnoses to discharge soldiers, thus stripping them of their disability benefits and long term […]
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Pentagon mentor system to be overhauled

Tom Vanden Brook and Ken Dilanian of USA Today? report that Defense Secretary Robert Gates "ordered an overhaul of the Pentagon's use of retired senior officers to advise the military, […]
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Deadly military aviation accidents on the rise

"U.S. soldiers have been twice as likely to die from aviation accidents as they were from ground mishaps or incidents over the past two and a half decades, according to […]
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Ex-residents slow to be notified of toxic water on Marine base

Despite a 2007 law requiring the Marine Corps to notify former residents of Camp Lejeune, N.C. that they may have been exposed to contaminated water between 1957 and 1987, many […]
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Soldiers buried as "unknown" due to careless record keeping

Mark Benjamin of Salon.com reports of continuing problems at Arlington National Cemetery.  Burial mix-ups include cremated remains being dumped in a landfill before being recovered and buried as an unknown […]
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Army bypasses ethics code to hire senior mentors

Ken Dilanian, Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker of USA Today report that the Army circumvented its own ethics code to hire two former generals as contractors before the mandated […]
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Agent Orange series

A series by The Chicago Tribune traces the lingering impact of the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.  The evidence of exposure can still be seen in the […]
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