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Thousands of Soldiers Unfit for War Duty
By not in system - AOL News(July 6) -- More than 13,000 active-duty Army soldiers -- the equivalent of four combat brigades -- are sidelined as unfit for war because of injury, illness, or mental stress. ...
Pvt. Mike Mansfield: Just One Marine in Arlington Cemetery
By James Grady - Politics DailyOf all the chiseled stones standing silent watch over us in these uncivil and dangerous political times, this Memorial Day consider one modest white-marble slab on a green hillside at Arlington National Cemetery: Michael Joseph Mansfield PVT U.S. Marine Corps Mar 16 1903 Oct 5 2001 Private Mansfield fell not in battle like so many Americans, nor did he endure combat's scars. He lived to know his grandchildren and died at 98 in Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In these MySpace and "American Idol" days, he ordered that his headstone in Arlington disclose no more personal glory than that honor ...
Pew Study Salutes Pentagon for Eco-Friendly Thinking
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(April 20) -- An organization that buys jet fuel by the billions of gallons and gets around in gas-guzzling tanks seems an unlikely leader in the effort to go green. But according to a report released today by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, the U.S. military is making great strides in curbing its appetite for fossil fuels. "This whole [Defense Department] is mobilized and thinking green," said John Warner, the former Navy secretary and Virginia senator, who worked with the Pew Project on its study. For instance, he said, troops in Afghanistan are using ...
Volcanic Ash Forces Military to Reroute Flights
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 16) -- The cloud of volcanic ash still expanding across Europe has forced the U.S. military to cancel all of its flights in and out of key bases in Germany and Britain, according to the Department of Defense. The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has already forced some 17,000 commercial flight cancellations today in Europe and effectively halted air travel between the United States and Europe. The military is no exception. According to an official notice, all flights were canceled into Ramstein Air Base, which serves the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional ...
How Offshore Drilling Affects US Military
By Dale Eisman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 31) -- President Barack Obama's decision to expand offshore energy development could put oil platforms in the middle of some of the military's prime East Coast training areas, tracts of open ocean and airspace now largely reserved for ship maneuvers, bombing runs and naval gunfire. And the armed forces, which have long zealously guarded their training grounds, apparently are fine with it. Environmentalists howled Wednesday about the administration's plan to push oil and gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the Virginia coast. Alex Wong, Getty Images President ...
US Military Plans to Restart Airlifts Out of Haiti
By not in system - AOL NewsMIAMI (Jan. 31) -- The U.S. military will resume bringing Haitian earthquake victims to the United States aboard its planes for medical treatment, ending a suspension that lasted several days, the White House said Sunday. The military had brought hundreds of critically injured Haitians to the United States aboard its planes before halting the flights on Wednesday. Since then, at least a handful of patients were flown on civilian aircraft, and other flights continued to carry U.S. citizens and other mostly non-injured passengers. Late Sunday, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the ...
Doctors Skirt Airlift Halt to Save Critically Ill Haitian Children
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Jan. 31) -- Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of three critically ill child victims of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday, flying them to U.S. hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspension of medical evacuation flights. A 5-year-old tetanus victim, a 14-month-old boy critically ill with pneumonia and a baby with third-degree burns were sent to Children's Hospital in Philadelphia by the aid group Partners in Health, based in Boston. The airlift had been in doubt after the U.S. military stopped medical evacuation flights on Wednesday night ...
Obama Vows Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Andrea Stone - AOL News(Jan. 27) -- It was just one sentence, buried deep within the State of the Union address. But for gay rights advocates who have been less than enthralled with President Barack Obama in the past year, they at least made the cut. "This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are," Obama said. Obama's pledge comes after a year of mixed blessings for gay rights supporters, who have criticized the president for ignoring or moving too slowly on their issues. The president's ...
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