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Even The Fourth Of July Can Be A Nightmare For US Veterans
Reddit user Envinoverdad posted this photo yesterday after taking it with an iPhone. The thread is tilted: Shell shocked soldier hiding at a fireworks show. The comments are from responses on the...
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Iran Is Readying A 'Nightmare Scenario' For The US Navy
It's getting easy to overlook the tired rhetoric and hollow tension surrounding Iran, the U.S. and Israel. It's been months, and months since the back-and-forth began. First, Iran's shutting the...
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This Tragic Story Sums Up The Position Many Veterans Face When Coming Home
Yesterday we wrote about Phil Stewart's report for Reuters that laid out the daunting statistics regarding the current state of benefits for veterans. One of the bleak numbers is that a veteran within...
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This Is What A 1987 Soviet Invasion Of Western Europe Could Have Looked Like
The Lun-class Soviet Ekranoplane was a marvel of late 20th century technological prowess and the Soviet's considered it an integral part of their colossal military machine. I stumbled upon these...
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These 20 Advanced Military Projects Will Change Your Life
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gets a ton of funding to develop the science and technological future of the military. This is the agency responsible for GPS, the internet and...
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Hearing About Dozens Of 'Confirmed Kills' During A Lap Dance Sticks With You
I didn’t notice him right away—a scruffy haired kid that came in one Sunday night last fall. But with football season in full swing, I couldn’t get the attention of the other men around stage, whose...
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This Army Wife Who Founded Battling BARE Explains How It All Began
July 28, 2012 Dear ____________, I’m not sure how to address this letter because I am not really sure to whom I am writing. Not being one that believes someone is going to swoop in and “fix” my...
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Meet The Man Behind The 'Holy Grail' Of Wearable Computing
The iOptik contact lens is a revolutionary product that's about to change the future of augmented reality vision. We chatted with Stephen Willey, the CEO of Innovega, about his company and their...
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Step Aboard The Navy's $2.4 Billion Virginia-Class Nuclear Submarine
The USS Virginia-class submarines are the United State's newest and most advanced submarine. The first Virginia slipped beneath the waves just eight years ago and only nine vessels have been...
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If You Live On This Road In Pakistan, You May Want To Move
This map showing the locations of 330 American drone strikes in Pakistan, using data from the Buruea of Investigative Journalists, via The Guardian. The strikes are believed to have caused up to 3,247...
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Abe Lincoln Would Have Dominated The Twittersphere Of 1863 With This 7-Word...
Slate editor David Plotz revives interest Thursday in a great piece of Abraham Lincoln writing. According to Plotz's post, Lincoln reviewed death sentences by court martial during the Civil War, and...
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How A Last-Minute Decision Led To The Nuking Of Nagasaki
Days after Hiroshima, a deadlier atomic bomb was bound for an armaments factory in Kokura – until bad weather forced a change of plan. In an extract from his new book, Nagasaki, Craig Collie gets...
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New Generation Of Unmanned Sea Drones 'Could Launch Attacks On Other Vessels'
British defence planners are seeking to develop a new generation of unmanned sea drones with the capability of attacking submarines and launching missile attacks on enemy vessels, it has been...
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A Bunch Of Elderly Protestors Managed To Sneak Past Security Into A US...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has been temporarily shut after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old...
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How US Troops Get Set Up With Prosthetic Limbs Is Totally About To Change
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to create a new office that will oversee all prosthetics and rehabilitation programs, department officials told Congress on Tuesday. VA officials want the...
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The Newest Wave Of Russian Marines To Syria May Be The First Step In An...
According to reports, Russia is sending three boatloads of Marines to their base in Syria, and everyone is speculating about why. One of the more compelling theories is that Russia wants to deploy a...
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Iran Is Wants To Pay $4 Billion To Buy $900 Million Worth Of These Missiles
While the world went back and forth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in 2002, Saddam Hussein was planning for the worst and did all he could to acquire a batch of Russian S-300 surface-to-air...
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A Scary Vision Of Future Crime And Terrorism [Presentation]
Veteran police officer and counter terrorism strategist Marc Goodman discussed the future of crime and terrorism in a recent Ted Talk. Goodman warns that "the flip side of the technologies we marvel...
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Here's What Closing The Army's Ohio Battle Tank Plant Really Means
General Dynamics has been quite open in its opposition to the Army’s proposed three-year closure of its tank plant in Lima, Ohio. But what has that actually meant, in practical terms? The Center for...
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Israel's Prime Minister Admits He Wants The US To Lead Any Strike On Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told officials in a closed meeting that he prefers the U.S. “do the work" in a potential strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, Barak Ravid of Haaretz reports....
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