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Soldier's suicide illustrates problems in military psychiatric care

Tapping into hundreds of pages of medical records, Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel told the story of Iraq vet James Weigl, who committed suicide soon after his return […]
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Consultancies a cash-cow for retired military

A USA Today investigation found that the Pentagon has hired "at least 158 retired admirals and generals...to offer advice under an unusual arrangement. Most of the retired officers, one to […]
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Jobs linked to aircraft production complicate attempted budget cuts

The Boeing C-17 is a $250 million aircraft used by the military to transport troops and supplies. Despite the Pentagon asserting it has plenty of C-17s in its fleet, Congress […]
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Cost of U.S. Army aviation accidents on the rise

A report by Michael Fabey shows that aviation accidents have been much costlier in 2009 according to an Aerospace Daily analysis of Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center data.  "The average cost […]
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Private security firm bought weapons on Iraqi black market

An investigation by T. Christian Miller and Aram Roston for ProPublica shows that Triple Canopy, the top private security contractor in Iraq, "swapped booze for weapons and supplies from the […]
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Army ends practice of profiling journalists covering war efforts

Stars and Stripes (Washington, D.C.) reporter Kevin Baron reports that less than a week after the paper first revealed that the Pentagon was routinely profiling journalists, the Army decided to […]
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Military suicides a mounting problem

An article by Erica Goode of The New York Times reports on the mounting number of soldiers committing suicide, detailing the stories of four soldiers from the 1451st Transportation Company.  […]
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Report shows missteps by Army left troops vulnerable in Afghanistan

Hal Bernton and Cheryl Phillips of The Seattle Times reported on an unreleased study that concluded Army missteps directly contributed to one of the bloodiest battles in the Afghanistan war. […]
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Violence follows some soldiers home from war

A two-day series by Dave Phillips of The (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Gazette retraces the steps of soldiers who have returned from war and ended up incarcerated for crimes they committed […]
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Many Pentagon contractors go unnamed

"The Pentagon’s unnamed contractors placed 14th on the Defense Department’s ranking of top contractors for 2008, according to an Aerospace Daily analysis of an independent national database of government contracting […]
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