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Local Voices: Naperville and Plainfield
Letters to the editor from Naperville and Plainfield residents. Adult texters As I drive both in the suburbs and city, I am absolutely stunned at how many people, adults, not kids, are texting while driving. I have a son who is 16 and is out there...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Genetic Engineering, Memorial Day, Petroleum Industry, Politics
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Letterkenny furlough reduced to 11 days
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comEmployees at Letterkenny Army Depot are facing fewer furlough days than originally expected — workers are looking at 11 days without pay rather than 14. The 11 days are down from the 14 that the Pentagon advised would be needed, and only half of...Tags: Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Personal Finance, Unemployment, Chuck Hagel
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Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado
SAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day. But don't look for the primary...
Tags: Basketball, Zoology, Google Inc., Armed Forces, Sports
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An unexpected surprise at woman's boot camp graduation
Adam Jarboe recently returned from Afghanistan and flown overnight into Chicago to pull off a stealth mission. Jarboe, a petty officer third class, was at Naval Station Great Lakes early Friday to surprise his wife. Dressed in the ceremonial white...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Afghanistan, Camp Lejeune (military base), Armed Forces
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France gets Pentagon backing to buy U.S.-made drones - paper
ReutersPARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - France has received approval from the U.S. Pentagon to buy two Reaper drones for intelligence gathering, and now only needs backing from Congress, Le Monde newspaper said on Saturday. With its current hardware increasingly...Tags: U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment, France, U.S. Military
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U.S. decries Russia weapons sale to Syria
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that the Kremlin's escalating support for its longtime ally in...
Tags: Military Equipment, United Nations, Weaponry, Muammar Gaddafi, Martin Dempsey
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5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC
Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...
Tags: U.S. Army, Environmental Issues, Health and Medical Professionals, Business, Nursing
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Save the 'Million Man' Army
The current guidance from the Department of Defense is that the U.S. will no longer conduct long-term stability operations despite 50 years of U.S. operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Vietnam, and Korea. Presently we are "pivoting" to the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Army, Semiconductors and Active Components, Indiantown, Defense
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AP case fuels complaints on Obama whistle-blower policies
The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistleblowers, particularly those in national security...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Public Employees
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Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge
Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Abusive Behavior, Lotteries, Chuck Hagel, Armed Forces
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Two soldiers from Southern California killed in Afghanistan
Two soldiers from Southern California have been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Sgt. 1st-class Jeffrey Baker, 29, of Hesperia in San Bernardino County, and Spec. William Gilbert, 24, from Hacienda Heights, were...Tags: Afghanistan
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Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment
ELLSWORTH-FURLOUGHS Military furloughs affect Ellsworth Air Force Base RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The military's plan to furlough civilian employees to save money will affect an estimated 566 workers at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota....Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Culture
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