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Veterans Angered By Proposed Increase In Tricare Fees

» by April 10th, 2012 at 2:43 am » Comments (3)

The Stars & Stripes has an update on the fight to increase Tricare fees for retired military personnel: Older retirees like Air Force Master Sgt. Floyd Sears, 81, stand shoulder to ...more »

US Lawmakers Want Pentagon To Consolidate More Bases In Europe, Could Korea Be Next?

» by April 6th, 2012 at 3:25 am » Comments (2)

With the Pentagon facing the possibility of even more budget cuts the idea of having another BRAC has been floated which has made lawmakers unhappy:  Overcoming stiff opposition on Capitol Hill ...more »

Marine Facing Discharge For Facebook Postings Will Fight Removal From the Corps

» by April 5th, 2012 at 8:03 am » Comments (16)

This is going to be real interesting to see how this case turns out considering that the Marine in question now has a team of lawyers, Congressmen, and the ACLU ...more »

Is the US Returning To A Pre-9/11 Mentality?

» by March 29th, 2012 at 5:58 pm » Comments (8)

I think this panel is right in regards to the US slowly returning to a pre-9/11 mentality where people don't recognize how a good chunk of the world is opposed ...more »

Army NCO’s Set To Be Screened By Retention Board

» by March 28th, 2012 at 5:31 pm » Comments (7)

Its coming, a whole bunch of NCO's are going to be pink slipped: Fifty percent of the Army’s senior noncommissioned officers will be considered for possible involuntary separation by boards that ...more »

Study Finds That The Military Falsely Discharged Thousands For Personality Disorders

» by March 27th, 2012 at 5:06 am » Comments (4)

For the longest time the personality disorder chapter has been used in the Army as a catch all to discharge troublemakers and it appears that some people may have gotten ...more »

Marine To Be Discharged Over Facebook Posts Critical of President Obama

» by March 22nd, 2012 at 8:11 am » Comments (25)

The Marine with the Facebook page that was critical of President Obama is now getting kicked out of the service: An outspoken Marine critical of President Barack Obama says he was ...more »

Lynndie England Is Looking for A Date, Anyone Interested?

» by March 21st, 2012 at 5:52 pm » Comments (27)

If any ROK Heads are having a hard time finding a date I have found someone that is available: Convicted in 2005 of "conspiracy, maltreating detainees and committing an indecent act," ...more »

US Army Could Implement New PT Test Later This Year

» by March 19th, 2012 at 5:23 pm » Comments (23)

It looks like the new US Army PT standards could be coming sooner rather than later: More than 10,000 tests were conducted, mountains of data were compiled, and a few dialogues ...more »

Facts Show Ft. Lewis Is No Different From Any Other US Military Installation

» by March 19th, 2012 at 8:08 am » Comments (7)

Considering how the national media has been pushing the storyline of how Ft. Lewis is some kind of rogue base with doctors sending crazy people to war, it is good ...more »

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