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Sergeants major study leadership, ethics
Description: Marine Corps leaders are pressing forward with the development of a new course for freshly minted sergeants major that stresses leadership and professional ethics as they prepare to oversee an entire battalion or squadron of Marines.
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Benghazi e-mails show 'no conspiracy,' expert says
Description: E-mails released by the White House that describe how the CIA's assessment of the Benghazi attack was edited to exclude any mention of terrorism appear to be part of a routine process by Washington bureaucrats, says a former CIA agent who used to take par
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Marine reunites with dog from Afghanistan
Description: When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he'd look her up when he returned home.
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More bases using solar power
Description: Stateside military bases are generating 130 megawatts of solar energy - a modest amount that's only enough to power 22,000 homes, but still a step the solar power industry says is improving national security.
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Obama calls meeting on military sex assault
Description: The nation's top defense leaders were summoned to the White House on Thursday to talk about the military's sexual assault crisis as the Pentagon's top general said women in uniform were losing confidence the problem will be solved.
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Tape tests don't cut it
Description: For members of the military struggling to stay in fighting trim, the stakes are higher than ever: The services have been cutting end strength as spending slows, and those who fail to meet fitness standards are being booted out in growing numbers.
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Obama calls on Congress to fund embassy security
Description: President Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security.
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Hagel: Re-train leaders on sexual assault now
Description: Revelations that a Fort Hood soldier assigned to prevent assault was accused of being a pimp has intensified calls from both the Pentagon and Capitol Hill to crack down on sexual crimes in the military.
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China questions Japanese rule over Okinawa
Description: China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese along with major U.S. military installations.
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NATO: 3 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
Description: A roadside bomb struck a U.S. convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three American troops, while a motorcycle bomb in a crowded village market killed at least three Afghan civilians, officials said.
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Slow start for fully electronic vets claims
Description: Fully electronic veterans' benefits claims, a necessary ingredient for the Obama administration to fulfill its pledge to eliminate the claims backlog by the end of 2015, is showing only modest results in initial stages.
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Sexism must be treated like racism, top officer says
Description: The Pentagon's sexual assault crisis will be solved only when troops treat sexist remarks with the same disdain as racial slurs, the officer in charge of preventing the crime told USA Today Tuesday.
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Some mental health workers exempted from civilian furloughs
Description: Nearly 8,800 civilians working in the Defense Department's medical community - including mental health specialists - will not have to take the mandatory 11-day furlough announced today by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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Government probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records
Description: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the n
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