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James (Jim) Kirkpatrick II
James (Jim) Kirkpatrick II from Newport Beach passed away peacefully at home on November 16th, 2012 at the age of 87. Jim was born April 23rd, 1925 in Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated from Fishburne Military Academy before earning his Bachelor’s...
Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), College Baseball, Awards and Prizes, Literature, United States Naval Academy
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Women service members sue over Pentagon combat exclusion policy
Four women service members, including two who received the Purple Heart for combat wounds, have sued the Defense Department over its policy that bars women from direct ground combat positions. The women, who have completed combat tours in Iraq and...Tags: Laws, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, Justice System
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Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AP) — The U.S. will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack, the Pentagon said Friday. Defense...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Turkey, Weaponry, Wars and Interventions, Missile Systems
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Construction is complete on behemoth airship; first flight planned
A massive cargo-carrying airship has taken shape inside one of the 17-story wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin. According to aircraft maker Worldwide Aeros Corp., construction is complete on a 36,000-pound blimp-like aircraft...
Tags: Military Equipment, Air Transportation Industry
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Military families worried by US fiscal cliff cuts
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the White House over federal spending cuts could chip away at military health...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, White House, Health Insurance, Leon Panetta, Family
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John Boehner takes Republican Party over cliff
Well, what do you know? We didn't go over the fiscal cliff, after all. In the end, the country was spared. Only the Republican Party was destroyed. Or, at least, severely damaged. Thanks to John Boehner. Commentators quickly ran out of words to describe...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Public Finance, Democratic Party, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Medicare
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Women in U.S. military fight for right to serve in combat
As a woman in the Army, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Hunt is barred from serving in the infantry. But that didn't stop commanders in Afghanistan from tapping her when they needed a female soldier to accompany men on their door-kicking missions. Hunt's job on...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Trials, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, Justice and Rights
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Rights and the 'war on terror'
Congress and President Obama have been buffeted by criticism for the way they handled, or mishandled, legislation designed to prevent the economy from going over the so-called fiscal cliff. Comparatively, little attention has been paid to another recent...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Trials, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress
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Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term...
Tags: United Nations, Democratic Party, Wars and Interventions, John Kerry, Afghanistan
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The Hagel question
In choosing former Sen. Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense, has President Obama made an "in your face" appointment, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) complains? Perhaps. Given criticism of Hagel by supporters of Israel and gay rights groups, his nomination...
Tags: Israel, Chuck Hagel, Wars and Interventions, Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Military
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Obama chooses Hagel for defense secretary, Brennan to head CIA
Associated PressDespite Republican misgivings, President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him “the leader our troops deserve.” He also chose White House counterterrorism...Tags: Democratic Party, Wars and Interventions, John Kerry, Iraq War (2003-2011), Defense
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Obama backs off hard lines in search of compromise
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks before the economy-threatening "fiscal cliff" is due to kick in, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are making significant concessions to each other, backing off what had once been ironclad...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party, Home Heating, Economic Indicator, John Boehner
Nov 27, 2012
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Dec 18, 2012
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