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SEC accuses city of Victorville, others of fraud in bond sale
Ever since the Department of Defense shut down George Air Force Base in 1992, the high desert town of Victorville has struggled to reinvent itself. The city encouraged massive residential and retail development. It invested in two new power plants....Tags: Laws, Collective Contract, Wage Contract Issues, Companies and Corporations, Finance
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Imperial County supervisors share joint strike fighter concerns with high-ranking congresswoman
Staff WriterLocal comments on the draft environmental impact statement on homebasing the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter squadron were shared with U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, second highest-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, as she attended...Tags: Loretta Sanchez, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Juan Vargas
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Wounded veterans' partners get scholarships to UMUC
Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he was deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver. Army Spc. Max Poyer, exposed to frequent mortar blasts in Afghanistan,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Awards and Prizes, Hospitals and Clinics, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Financial Aid
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Fort Leonard Wood on notice as US Army plans to cut 80,000 soldiers
jkaplan@kspr.comWAYNESVILLE, Mo -- The US Army plans slash 80,000 military positions from its bases and forts around the world. Officials at the Pentagon tell KSPR News the plan, called "Army 2020", will save approzimately $4.5 billion. The Army's proposed action -...Tags: Afghanistan, Armed Forces, U.S. Army
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Air Force staff sergeant from California is killed in Afghanistan
An Air Force staff sergeant from a base in Northern California has been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Sunday. Richard A. Dickson, 24, of Rancho Cordova, east of Sacramento, was among four Air Force personnel killed...Tags: Afghanistan, Transportation Accidents, Military Equipment, Air and Space Accidents, Armed Forces
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Defense Department becomes a wildlife protector
Many of the nation's 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands where soldiers trained without complaints from neighbors about the roar of warplanes and the sound of gunfire and explosions. Now, with urban...
Tags: Conservation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Army, Environmental Issues
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Critics make case against pay caps, higher TRICARE fees
Military folks upset by Obama administration proposals to cap pay raises, to phase-in sharply higher co-pays on prescriptions filled off base and to raise TRICARE costs on working-age retirees also tend to rail against such changes with arguments...Tags: Career and Workplace, Government Health Care, Defense, Government, TRICARE
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Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy
A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...
Tags: Renewable Energy, St. Mary's County, Prisons, Science and Technology, Wildlife
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Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle. Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past...
Tags: Elections, Unemployment Benefits, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rob Portman
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Radar shows U.S. border security gaps
WASHINGTON — A sophisticated airborne radar system developed to track Taliban fighters planting roadside bombs in Afghanistan has found a new use along the U.S. border with Mexico, where it has revealed gaps in security. Operated from a Predator...
Tags: Immigration, Migration, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Politics, National Security
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Hampton VA opens doors to medics, corpsmen
— When Mathew Vance began looking for a job in Hampton Roads, he had plenty of experience to sell. The 30-year-old Wyoming native had been a combat medic in the Army and later in the Texas Army National Guard. He had deployed twice to Iraq,...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, Veterans Affairs, Basketball
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The truth about torture
If there were any remaining doubts that what the CIA did to captured terrorist suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was torture, a report last week by an independent investigative panel should put them to rest. According to the report by the...Tags: Prisons, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Police Investigations, U.S. Military, Justice System
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