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National Guard cleans up city block before deployment
The commanding officer gathered his soldiers early Saturday morning, brought them to attention and delivered details of their mission. The young men and women saluted, snatched up their arms and occupied the perimeters of a stretch of unfriendly terrain....
Tags: Army National Guard, U.S. Military, Armed Forces, World War I (1914-1918), Korean War (1950-1953)
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Obama foreign policy follies befuddle right and left alike
The young Barack Obama's early enthusiasm for anti-war progressivism is well chronicled in his autobiography. Friendships with the likes of anti-war activists/bombers Bill Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn, poet Frank Marshall Davis, and the notorious Rev....
Tags: Authors, Religious Conflicts, Jeremiah Wright, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism
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Bradley Manning's lawyer calls him young, naive, 'good-intentioned'
An Army prosecutor told a military judge Monday that Pfc. Bradley Manning drew on his military training to harvest hundreds of thousands of classified documents from military computers and dump them on the Internet, where he knew their release would...
Tags: Prosecution, Fort Meade (military base), Bradley Manning, Courts-Martial, Security
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Protesters gather at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning
Chanting "Free Bradley Manning" and wielding signs that read "my hero" and "Americans have the right to know," hundreds of demonstrators descended on Fort Meade on Saturday to support the soldier now facing a court-martial in the largest security breach...
Tags: Iraq, Prosecution, Fort Meade (military base), Bradley Manning, New York City
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Holding the national security course
President Barack Obama's latest changes in his top national security team seem more a shift to a stronger emphasis on human rights than a break with his long-range determination to keep the United States out of nation-building adventurism. His...
Tags: Iraq, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Jules Witcover, Susan Rice, Samantha Power
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Making the most of a cruise gone bad
On May 24, my wife and I embarked on our first cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean ship Grandeur of the Seas to celebrate our sixth wedding anniversary. Having deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Maryland Army National Guard, I had been...
Tags: Iraq, Music, Tourism and Leisure, Army National Guard, Cruises
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Summer health, safety tips The Department of Health offers sun and water safety tips, Lyme disease information for prevention and detection, as well as food safety recommendations designed to reduce the risk of food-borne illnesses at picnics,...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Fort Meade (military base), Lobbying, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Parenting
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Navy Reserve airborne electronic attack squadron makes final Md. flight
For nearly a quarter-century, members of the airborne electronic attack squadron VAQ-209 have launched their jets from this air base in Prince George's County for deployments over Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Earlier this month, Navy Cmdr. James King...
Tags: Iraq, Fort Meade (military base), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Armed Forces, Defense
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Families, friends remember fallen Marylanders
For Theresa Mills, the "most emotional day" came last June when the Marine Corps notification team visited her Laurel home to tell her that her older son had been killed in Afghanistan. The second most emotional day, she said, came Monday. In the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Ellicott City, Accidental Death, Nottingham, Memorial Day
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Should we continue to be the indispensable nation?
In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation." "We are the force for...
Tags: Iraq, Jules Witcover, NATO, Madeleine Albright, Libya
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Md. National Guard preparing for final Afghan deployment
As the Maryland National Guard prepares for what could be its final deployment to Afghanistan, its commander sees a "pivotal point" in the nation's history. More than a decade of deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and other battlegrounds since Sept. 11,...Tags: Iraq, U.S. Department of Defense, Armed Conflicts, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama
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In Benghazi and eyond, fallen workers remembered
Let's take a break from the raging discord that has dominated Washington lately by remembering federal employees who died abroad in service to their country. With so much attention focused on what the government has done wrong, we'll end the week with...Tags: Charles Johnson (football, defensive end), Johns Hopkins University, Joe Biden, Libya, Anne Smedinghoff
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