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Military plans would put women in most combat jobs
Declaring "the days of Rambo are over," a top general said Tuesday that cultural, social and behavioral concerns may be bigger hurdles than tough physical fitness requirements for women looking to join the military's special operations units. Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, director of force management for U.S. Special Operations Command, ...
US military plans to put women in most combat jobs
U.S. military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines. Under details of the plans obtained by The Associated Press, women could start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as ...
US military plans would put women in combat jobs
Women may be able to start training as U.S. Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy commandos a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces. Details of the plans ...
Military women moving into jobs closer to combat
1948 — Law passed making women a permanent part of the U.S. military services 1975 — The Air Force puts the first woman on operational crew status 1976 — The first group of women enters the U.S. military academies, as directed by legislation signed by President Gerald Ford a year ...
Defense report: Troops in bin Laden raid revealed
U.S. special operations forces who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden were in uniform and wearing nametags during a CIA award ceremony attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty," a Pentagon inspector general's report said Friday. The report, however, omits a number of revelations ...
Top military leader disputes diplomat on Benghazi
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that four members of Army special forces in Tripoli were never told to stand down after last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, disputing a former top diplomat's claim that the unit might have helped ...
Defense report: Post-bin Laden raid security lapse
Several weeks after overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the raid commander in a speech attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty," according to a draft report by Pentagon investigators. Under security rules, the commander's name was ...
US Army generals deny outside pressure in sex case
U.S. Army generals denied they were pressured to charge and prosecute a colleague who faces a court-martial on several charges that include forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and adultery. The case comes as the U.S. military takes a high-profile stance against sexual assault within its ranks. In Washington on ...
Army generals deny outside pressure in sex case
Three U.S. Army generals took turns on a witness stand at Fort Bragg Tuesday during a pre-trial hearing for another general facing sexual assault allegations. Gen. Dan Allyn and Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Colt denied they were pressured to charge and prosecute Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, who faces a court-martial on ...
China skeptical of expanded US role in the Pacific
A Chinese military leader on Saturday pointedly questioned the expanded U.S. role in the Pacific after the Pentagon chief said he hoped for better military ties between the two powers. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a speech at a security conference in Singapore, also warned China about cyberattacks seemingly ...
Hagel issues stern warning to China
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged message to Beijing — holding out hope for a slowly improving military relationship with the Asian giant while issuing a stern warning on cyberattacks coming from that country. But he was met with immediate skepticism from the Chinese delegation in the audience, who ...
PANEL SAYS U.S. COMBAT COMMANDERS SHOULD HANDLE WAR ZONE INQUIRIES
c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — Concerned about possible flaws in criminal proceedings against U.S. troops accused of killing or abusing civilians in a war zone, a Defense Department panel has proposed that investigations and prosecutions of crimes be carried out by a senior commander in the theater ...
Ex-Defense Secretary Panetta has deal for memoir
Leon Panetta is the latest Cabinet member who served during President Barack Obama's first term to have a book deal. The 74-year-old Panetta has an agreement with Penguin Press for a memoir about his long public career. He has served in Congress, as chief of staff under President Bill Clinton ...
Military sex assault victims victimized twice
Army Pvt. Anna Moore spotted the man approaching as she knelt on the hallway floor, scraping off a dingy layer of wax. He was a sergeant from another battery with no apparent reason for entering the empty third floor of her barracks. Why was he there, she wondered. "Look at ...
Defense employees could get notices in mid-March
Up to 13,000 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base civilian employees could be notified of job furloughs of up to 22 days by mid-March, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., that many of the 800,000 civilian employees in the military will face ...
Veterans Day
On this Veterans Day, the military is struggling with a damaging new story about the mishandling of remains of fallen U.S. servicemembers, where officials at the Dover, Delaware facility are accused of sending some remains to local landfills. "None of us will be satisfied until we have proven to the ...
Flood worries and some relief in Irene's wake
[9:05 p.m.] The federal government has more than doubled the number of North Carolina counties eligible for federal financial assistance tp help state and local governments protect the public and property following Hurricane Irene. Gov. Beverly Perdue's office said President Obama expanded Sunday to 34 eastern counties his federal disaster ...
Jonah Goldberg: Anger over CIA flap should be directed at Panetta, Democrats
Where’s the outrage?If this country had its head on straight, there would be nothing but white-hot popular fury over the latest Bush-era CIA scandal broken by The New York Times.CIA director Leon Panetta reportedly told congressional committees that under Dick Cheney, the CIA hatched a plan, in the wake of ...
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