Forced to shrink, Army National Guard gets pickier
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Suffer from a bad case of acne? That could disqualify you from joining the Army National Guard. Too many speeding tickets? In today's slimmer, smarter Guard, that could keep you out, too.

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Bush opens Pacific War museum gallery
Former President George H.W. Bush used a large pair of gold scissors Monday to cut a red ribbon and dedicate an expansive new gallery that carries his name at the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Bush and his wife, Barbara, were among som...See Story

 

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Only a fraction of wounded veterans who could get better benefits have applied in the two years since Congress, acting on concerns the military was cutting costs by downplaying injuries, ordered the Pentagon to review disputed clai...See Story

 

Nationwide Sweepstakes Raises More Than $150,000 for AFF to Help Military Familie
OSHKOSH, Wis. (July 30, 2010) — The Armed Forces Foundation (AFF) and Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK), today presented two servicemen with the Rumble With a Cause sweepstakes grand prizes. The winners, U.S. Army Staff Sg...See Story

 

Army opens prep school for dropouts to fill ranks
FORT JACKSON, S.C. - Austin Swarner left high school to care for his mother while she fought a losing battle with cancer. Tony Brown wanted to begin supporting himself and left two classes shy of a diploma. Haelee Holden got tired of trying to make i...See Story

 

Questions, answers on US military options
WASHINGTON – Pentagon planners are examining what the U.S. military can do at sea and on land in response to a dangerous spike in international piracy off the Somali coast. A look at some of the options:

Q: The Navy sent a warship to help th...See Story

 

New GI Bill sending veterans to school this fall
WASHINGTON – Spc. Marco Reininger started the year on the dusty streets of Afghanistan. He'll end it on the campus of Columbia University with the government picking up a large chunk of the $100,000 tab for tuition.

The Post-9/11 GI Bill rol...See Story

 

WWII veteran had Hitler's art book on bookshelf
DALLAS – After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close.

Making his way through the Berghof, Hitler's...See Story

 

Explorers Find 1780 British Warship in Lake Ontario
A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep wa...See Story

 

Veterans from 1960’s chemical tests press for help
Lawmakers and veterans of secret Cold War-era chemical and germ tests on military personnel demanded help from the Bush administration Thursday, but they got no satisfaction. Officials from the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department said there wa...See Story

 

Fraud costs military health program $100 million-plus
MADISON, Wis. - The U.S. military's health insurance program has been swindled out of more than $100 million over the past decade in the Philippines, where doctors, hospitals and clinics have conspired with American veterans to submit bogus claims, a...See Story

 

Troop depression on rise in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.

And in a recurring theme for a force strained by its s...See Story

 

Future annual Iraq tab $10 billion plus
WASHINGTON - The cost of a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq similar to the peacekeeping role American troops have played in South Korea would range from $10 billion to $25 billion a year, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.
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Soldier subdued by stun gun shoots 2 Fla. deputies
NICEVILLE, Fla. – Two deputies from a troubled sheriff's office in Florida had no warning a confrontation with a National Guard soldier accused of beating his wife would turn deadly, the sheriff said.

Deputies Burt Lopez and Warren "Skip" Yo...See Story

 

Top uniformed officer: Gay ban should be lifted
WASHINGTON – The military's top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to "lie about who they are in...See Story

 

Military enthusiasts begin re-enacting Vietnam War
BOALSBURG, Pa. – The dirt paths that lead to Alpha Company's field headquarters are lined with overgrown grass and weeds. A canvas tent is protected by machine guns, sandbags and Army-green storage boxes. And lurking somewhere outside is the enemy: t...See Story

 

VA tests system for electronic disability claims
BALTIMORE — If the interminable backlog of veterans' disability claims has any chance of being eliminated, the system must go paperless.

But how to move to a fully electronic system is the quandary, and one Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Sh...See Story