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Overseas Tours Cost Soldiers Child Custody

Deployment often means troops have rough time in court

Feb 15, 08 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - In what the Pentagon and parent-advocacy groups agree is a growing trend, troops serving overseas are unable to maintain custody of their children upon their return, NPR reports. One National Guardswoman raised her son until her unit deployed to Iraq, when his father took temporary custody. AFter she returned home,... More »

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parenting • National Guard • US military • military families • Iraq veterans • Afghanistan veterans • Tanya Towne • soldiers' families • custody battle

Okinawa Rape Case Reignites Anti-US Ire

Citing discipline lack, angry Japanese want less military presence

Feb 14, 08 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - The arrest this week of a US Marine on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl on the Japanese island of Okinawa has stirred long-simmering resentment of the nearly 50,000 American troops stationed there, Reuters reports. “Considering that such vicious, atrocious incidents have never ceased to occur, we must... More »

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Japan • US military • rape • Okinawa • Marine • Tyrone Hadnott

9/11 Executions Could Take Place in Gitmo

Military rules changed allowing executions far from federal courts

Feb 13, 08 7:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Six 9/11 suspects detained at Gitmo could be executed at the controversial prison compound if found guilty, legal experts say. Military regulations used to require that executions take place at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, but that rule was amended two years ago to allow prisoners to be executed in "... More »

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execution • US military • capital punishment • September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • execution chamber • Fort Leavenworth

UC Berkeley Rumbles Over City Council's War Criticism

Pro- and anti-war groups plan protests

Feb 12, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Berkeley is getting a little of its ‘60s vibe back, with pro- and anti-war groups gearing up for a night of demonstrations as the City Council decides whether to revoke a letter critical of the Marine Corps, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The council’s letter, written 2 weeks... More »

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US military • UC Berkeley • protests • political activism • Marine

Japanese Fury Mounts Over
US Marine
Rape Case

'Unforgivable' crime threatens alliance

Feb 12, 08 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Tensions continued to mount in Japan today in the aftermath of the arrest of a US Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Okinawa. "It is unforgivable," Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told a parliamentary panel. "It has happened over and over again in the past and... More »

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Japan • US military • rape • Okinawa • military bases

US Marine Busted in Rape of Okinawa Schoolgirl

Governor furious as marine denies crime

Feb 11, 08 5:23 AM CST
(Newser) - A US Marine has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa, where resentment is already running high against American military presence, Reuters reports. The 38-year-old Marine allegedly raped the teen in a car yesterday, officials said. "This kind of crime cannot be forgiven, especially... More »

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military • Japan • US military • rape • Okinawa • Marine

Diary of a Bitter al-Qaeda Leader

Insurgent slams Sunnis who've deserted group to join American forces

Feb 10, 08 12:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda’s once indomitable force in Iraq is suffering from diminished ranks and low resources: That’s the word not from US generals but from one of the insurgent group’s leaders. In a bitter 16-page diary, Abu Tariq blasts former members who deserted al-Qaeda to join American forces. “... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • US military • Sunnis • Awakening Councils • al-Qaeda • Abu Tariq • emir

US Readies Major 9/11 Trial of Gitmo detainees

Case could bring closure for White House, or revive criticisms

Feb 9, 08 6:50 AM CST
(Newser) - US military prosecutors are finalizing plans for a major trial against Guantanamo’s 9/11 suspects, sources tell the New York Times. Among those likely to be charged is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has claimed full responsibility for the attacks. “The thinking was 9/11 is the heart and soul... More »

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Pentagon • US military • trial • September 11 • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • Guantanamo prisoners • terror suspects

Germany Balks at US Request for Troop Help

Call for reinforcements in southern Afghanistan outside 'point of focus'

Feb 1, 08 5:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Germany has rejected a request from US defense secretary Robert Gates for more troops to fight the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan, Der Spiegel reports. German defense minister Franz Josef Jung prefers his troops remain in the country's north, in accordance with Germany's Afghanistan mandate—which says troops will only... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Angela Merkel • Germany • US military • Marine • Franz Josef Jung

Panel Blasts 'Appalling'
US Terror Readiness 

Panel calls for sweeping changes to National Guard, Army Reserves

Feb 1, 08 4:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The US is woefully under-prepared for a terrorist attack on home soil, according to a scathing report by an independent commission charged by Congress to recommend National Guard and Army Reserve policy. "It's totally unacceptable," the panel declared of American readiness in the event of such an attack.... More »

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terrorism • National Guard • US military • counterterrorism

Falling Spy Satellite May Hit North America

Military won't know exact landing spots until 30 minutes to impact

Jan 30, 08 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - A defunct and out-of-control spy satellite is falling to Earth, and could scatter debris somewhere in North America in late February or early March, the AP reports. The Air Force says the satellite called US 193, whose central computer failed shortly after its launch in 2006, is big enough that... More »

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US military • satellite • North America • space debris • Gene Renuart • US 193

Complexity of Army Software Raises Concern

Mammoth Boeing project is most costly weapons plan

Jan 24, 08 5:07 PM CST
(Newser) - More than 2,000 developers are working on a $200 billion software project considered the biggest Army modernization since World War II, but many worry the Boeing-led Future Combat Systems may come in late and severely flawed. FCS, which dwarfs Windows in complexity, would enable communication with hovering drones, bomb-defusing... More »

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Congress • Boeing • US military • Future Combat Systems

Homeless Vets Spark Outcry: Haven't We Learned?

1,500 back from Iraq now in poverty

Jan 20, 08 4:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Iraq war veterans are suffering from stress, turning to alcohol, and falling into poverty—a fate that prompts some to ask whether the US has learned from tragedies of veterans past. Washington has identified 1,500 Iraq vets as homeless and helped about a third, but echoes of Vietnam persist... More »

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Afghanistan • US military • mental illness • homeless • PTSD • Iraq veterans • Iraq war

US Officer
Cleared Over Abu Ghraib

Only officer charged with a crime in
torture scandal will face no punishment

Jan 11, 08 9:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The only officer who faced a court-martial over the torture at Abu Ghraib has been cleared of all criminal wrongdoing. The BBC reports that Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was convicted in August of disobeying a gag order, but that decision was annulled and his record is now clean. No officer... More »

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Iraq • torture • Abu Ghraib • US military • court martial

Iraq Booby-Trap Blast
Kills 6 US Troops

Nine dead in first two days of new offensive against al-Qaeda strongholds

Jan 10, 08 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Six US soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter were killed when a booby-trapped house in Diyala province exploded, the Washington Post reports. Four others were injured. Another three soldiers were killed Tuesday as tens of thousands of US and Iraqi troops, along with many local volunteers, began sweeping through northern Iraq... More »

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Iraq • US military • bomb • Iraqi soldiers • al-Qaeda in Iraq

151,000 Iraqis Killed, Study Says

New survey touted as most reliable yet, but definite figure hard to come by

Jan 9, 08 7:47 PM CST
(Newser) - More than 150,000 Iraqis—about 120 a day—were killed in the first three years of the Iraqi war following the US invasion in 2003, a new study says. The estimate, from the WHO and the Iraqi government, is said to be the most scientific study yet of the... More »

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Iraq • United Nations • civilian casualties • United States • US military • Iraqis killed • death toll • Iraqi government

Online Scammer Impersonates US Colonel

Details taken from website for military families

Jan 2, 08 12:42 AM CST
(Newser) - British woman Wendy McKay had been enjoying her romantic online chats with a handsome US colonel deployed to Iraq, but alarm bells started ringing when the "colonel" suddenly needed thousands of dollars sent to Ghana, the Military Times reports. A con man had stolen the real colonel's identity and... More »

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online fraud • US military • identity theft • online dating

Protect or Prevent? Iraq Tanks Raise Heavy Issues

New armored vehicles will save soldiers, but may endanger strategy

Dec 27, 07 3:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A new heavily armored vehicle will better protect US soldiers in Iraq from roadside bombs, but possibly at the risk of jeopardizing the overall counter-insurgency strategy, the Los Angeles Times reports. The new equipment has ignited debate over whether it is better to protect soldiers from attack, or stop the... More »

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Iraq • Pentagon • military strategy • US military • roadside bomb • MRAP

Iraq Invites Refugees Home, but Home Is Gone

350K displaced in Iraq; US military begs Baghdad to build new housing

Dec 16, 07 5:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Baghdad shocked Washington and the UN last month by inviting home 1.4 million refugees from Syria, the Washington Post reports. The UN warned against it, saying exiles would face poverty, but Iraq started a bus line to transport them back. Many found their homes looted and neighborhoods redrawn along... More »

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Iraq • Syria • Baghdad • David Petraeus • US military • refugee • Iraqi refugees

Army Seeks to Shorten Tours

As security improves, military leaders push
to cut 15-month tours
to 12 by summer

Dec 9, 07 1:02 PM CST
(Newser) - With violence slowing in Iraq, many Army leaders want to drop the 15-month tours of duty imposed on soldiers earlier this year to sustain the surge, the AP reports. “We can’t sustain that,” says Army Chief of Staff George Casey, the former top commander in Iraq who... More »

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military • troop surge • US military • tour of duty • Gen. George Casey

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