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Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
Top Marine Says DADT Repeal Won't Lead to Exodus in Force
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps commandant who once said openly gay service members would be a dangerous "distraction" and was among the most outspoken opponents of repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy said today he does not expect to lose troops over the change. "I haven't had any indication yet at all, not at all," Gen. James Amos told reporters when asked if he expected the mass exodus of troops that Sen. John McCain and other critics predicted if the ban was lifted. Amos was visiting troops in Afghanistan's Helmand Province when President Barack Obama signed the repeal ...
Report: Marine Corps Delayed 'Urgently Needed' Laser Weapon
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe military needlessly delayed by six months an urgently needed, nonlethal laser weapon that could have saved the lives of U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians, according to a report released today by the Pentagon's inspector general. "Delays left Marines deployed to Iraq in 2006 without a critical nonlethal weapon to more effectively perform security missions for nearly 6 months," Richard Jolliffe, the assistant inspector general, wrote in a memo accompanying the main report, which examines the Marines' effort to procure the lasers. The problem dates back to a 2005 request by the 2nd Marine ...
Pentagon Outlines Plans to Implement 'Don't Ask' Repeal
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Pentagon, releasing the first details of its plan to implement a new law that will allow gays to serve openly in the military, said today it could begin training troops in February and could be certifiably ready to drop the "don't ask, don't tell" policy by the end of 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates set Feb. 4 as the deadline for officials to deliver their plan to integrate gays into the military. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwright, right, and Clifford Stanley, defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness, ...
Nothing Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs Like a Dog's Nose
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsIn the war on roadside bombs, the Pentagon has spent billions on everything from radio-signal jammers to robots, but there's one tool that's beaten them all -- dogs. Now, instead of trying to come up with a technology that's better than dogs, Navy scientists are focusing on how to make the bomb-sniffing dogs work better. Christophe Simon, AFP / Getty Images Bomb-sniffing dog Corporal Ace searches for explosives near a U.S. Marine from 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, Charlie Company during a patrol around Huskers camp in the outskirts of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand ...
Gates Shifts Military Spending: 'Not Every Defense Dollar is Sacred'
By David Wood - Politics DailyA draining war and record-high defense spending financed by borrowing are driving yet another effort to control the military budget. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, citing a "grim financial outlook'' but also the "growing peril of the future,'' Thursday announced minor shifts within the defense budget of about $178 billion over five years. "Not every defense dollar is sacred,'' he told reporters at the Pentagon. But, he warned, "We shrink from our global responsibilities at our peril,'' and he said under the current Obama administration plan, the defense budget will continue to rise ...
Coast Guard Recruiting Station Latest Target in Shooting Spree
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- A shot fired at a Coast Guard recruiting station in Woodbridge, Va., earlier this week has been connected through ballistics evidence to four other mysterious shootings in the area. Police said one shot was fired at the building at some point late Monday or early Tuesday, damaging but not breaking a window. Nobody was hurt. Whoever is behind the shootings is following a pattern: The targets are all related to the military, the shootings occur late at night or early in the morning, and so far nobody has been harmed in any of them. The attacks began in mid-October when shots were ...
Former Marine Acts as Iraq War Vet's Legs in Marathon
By David Moye - AOL News
(Nov. 1) -- When Marine Sgt. Eddie Ryan finished the Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday, he proved that anything is possible -- with a little help from your friends. All his life, Ryan's two biggest dreams were to become a Marine and to run in the Marine Corps Marathon, a grueling event that takes place every October in Washington, D.C. Melanie Purcell Former Marine Bryan Purcell (standing) and Marine Sgt. Eddie Ryan teamed up to compete in the Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday. The two didn't know each other until Purcell showed up on Ryan's doorstep and offered to be his legs for the ...
FBI: Shots at Military Sites May Stem From Grudge
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Oct. 29) -- The FBI believes the gunman who fired shots at several Virginia military sites, including the Pentagon, could be a military servicemember with a grievance against the U.S. Marine Corps, FBI officials said today. "It may be that he feels he has been wronged by the Marine Corps in his professional and or personal life," FBI special agent John Perrin told reporters. "The subject of his grievance does appear to be the institution of the United States Marine Corps and not the individual men and women Marines, for whom he may feel a great deal of respect, admiration and even ...
FBI Links 2 Shootings at Northern Virginia Military Facilities
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Oct. 27) -- The same weapon was used to fire shots at the Pentagon and another Northern Virginia military location, and now investigators are trying to determine whether the gun was used in a third shooting, the FBI said today. The first shooting occurred at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va., during the early-morning hours of Oct. 17. The second shooting occurred two days later at the Pentagon in Arlington. Officers heard shots being fired around 5 a.m. The shots are believe to have originated somewhere in the vicinity of the Pentagon's south parking lot, which faces ...
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