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End of Military Gay Ban Is Pivotal Moment in History
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 18) -- The Senate's 65-31 vote to end the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was more than historic. It was a long time coming. But for the men and women whose lives and careers were touched for so many years by the ban, it was mostly personal. For Grethe Cammermeyer, the Vietnam combat nurse who came out as a lesbian in 1989 and whose struggle to stay in the military made her famous, the Senate vote brought tears. It's "the relief of finally seeing that we can serve with dignity and with integrity and that people no longer have to lie," she said. For ...
McCain: 'Don't Ask' Repeal May Cause Troop Exodus
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 2) -- Senate Republicans, led by Arizona's John McCain, today raised the specter of a mass exodus of offended troops if gays are allowed to serve openly in the military. In a preview of a debate McCain hopes to keep from reaching the Senate floor for a vote this month, opponents vehemently rejected a 10-month Pentagon study that found there would be minimal disruption in the ranks if Congress repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, they told Pentagon leaders they did not take seriously enough resistance from Army and ...
Openings Give Obama Chance to Shape Military
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Nov. 8) -- Here's one place with plenty of job openings: the "E" Ring of the Pentagon. In the next several months, the secretary of defense and four of the six uniformed members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are expected to retire. This kind of mass exodus of military brass is "virtually unheard of," said John Ullyot, a Republican strategist and former spokesman for the Senate Armed Services Committee. "It's very rare to have so many service chiefs up" all at once, he said. "Even in peacetime this would be a lot of turnover, a lot of change for the biggest part of the ...
Missile Mishap Revives Alarm Over Nuclear Arsenal
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(Oct. 27) -- Computer glitches, hardware failures and unexplained communication outages happen all the time. But when the affected systems control nuclear-armed missiles, it gets a little scary. That's why Saturday's brief malfunction at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, disconnecting 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles of the 450-ICBM-strong U.S. arsenal from their human controllers, has raised concerns just two years after a Defense Department panel said there had been "an atrophy of the Air Force's nuclear mission." USAF / AFP / Getty Images An Air Force technician inspects an ...
Calif. Judge Rules Military's Ban on Gays Unconstitutional
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., has ruled that the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service personnel is unconstitutional, declaring that the so-called "don't ask, don't tell'' policy violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of lesbians and gay men. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said that Justice Department attorneys had failed to prove that the policy "significantly furthers government interests in military readiness or troop cohesion, or that discharge is necessary to those interests." By contrast, Phillips noted that booting homosexuals ...
Military Chief Defends Obama on Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 3) -- Public praise for their civilian superiors is expected of senior uniformed leaders. But the nation's top military man seemed to go out of his way on Wednesday to praise President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, then begin withdrawing them by the middle of 2011. "His is a more balanced, more flexible and more achievable strategy than we have had in the past, one based on pragmatism and real possibilities," Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a pair of congressional committees. "And speaking for the ...
With Surge Over, Troops Could Be Coming Home
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAdmiral Michael Mullen said today that he expects to be able to recommend troop reductions in Iraq this fall, as security gains from the troop surge continue to hold. Mullen made his comments in a Pentagon press conference with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the occasion of the removal of the last of five additional brigades ordered into Iraq as a part of the surge. The withdrawal of the third infantry division's second brigade officially ended the surge, and went little noticed in the mainstream press, itself an indication of the strategy's effectiveness.Mullen said that any additional ...
Mullen Warns Soldiers' Pay in Jeopardy
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, is warning Congress that the Pentagon will be forced to stop paying soldiers after June 15th if a $108 billion supplemental war-funding measure is not passed soon. He told Roll Call (subscription required) that the uncertainty surrounding the bill creates unnecessary pressure in the military. "It makes it extremely difficult to execute the day-to-day business of the Pentagon without knowing the money is coming," he said.The Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have been calling on Congress to pass the supplemental ...
Mullen Warns Clinton, Obama on Iraq Pullout
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has a warning for the Democratic presidential candidates: don't pull out from Iraq too fast. Navy Admiral Michael Mullen said that a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq could potentially erase all of the gains that have been made there in the past year.Mullen was speaking to ABC News and was responding to a question about the Joint Chiefs' preparations for a new Administration, especially one that may want to withdraw from Iraq. Mullen, whose term will extend into the next Administration, Republican or Democrat, said that the military needs to be ...
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