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Obama to AFA grads: Build new era of leadership
Obama to AFA grads: Build new era of leadership
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — President Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes into a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the Air Force Academy.
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  • Guard chief: Budget battle threatens retention
    The administration's fiscal 2013 budget proposal and its planned elimination of jobs and planes in the Air National Guard have been worse for retention than two decades of deployments to hostile...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 18:25:38 EDT
  • Andrews air show switches to biennial event
    MORNINGSIDE, Md. — Officials at Joint Base Andrews near Washington say budget cuts are forcing them turn a popular air show into a biennial event instead of an annual one.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 18:10:53 EDT
  • AF picks 1st woman to lead fighter wing command
    SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. — The Air Force has chosen its first female officer to take command of a fighter wing.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 18:26:49 EDT
  • Wait gets longer for VA disability benefits
    Ill or injured service members now wait an average of 394 days to move through the military's disability evaluation process, an increase of more than 10 percent since 2010 and well off the goal of...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 17:35:21 EDT
  • Lawmaker: CIA, DoD too close to filmmakers
    WASHINGTON — A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 18:16:51 EDT
  • BRAC fight may not be over, DoD official says
    The Defense Department is still pushing for two more rounds of base realignments and closures despite opposition from Congress, according to a senior Pentagon official.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 16:18:25 EDT
  • U.S. appeals court clarifies piracy definition
    RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday on the legal definition of piracy, saying an armed attack on a U.S. vessel can be considered piracy even if no one ever boards or robs...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 17:29:16 EDT
  • Airman’s remains buried after 1944 B-36 crash
    FORT WORTH, Texas — Betty Wheeler wanted her father's resting place to be somewhere beautiful and extraordinary. He deserved that.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 12:54:13 EDT
  • As vets process memories, uniforms get new life
    Former Marine Cpl. Nick Collier said it was not hard to shred pieces of his old uniform into a pile of fabric scraps.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 12:41:28 EDT
  • Doctor who helped CIA find OBL convicted
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 19:37:11 EDT
  • Disney hosts career expos for veterans
    BURBANK, Calif. — The Walt Disney Co. kicked off a series of career expos Tuesday aimed at helping returning veterans make the transition to civilian life.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 17:43:16 EDT
  • 2-star to retire as logistics center closes
    WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Military officials say Maj. Gen. Robert McMahon, commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, will retire on June 15.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 15:04:18 EDT
  • Kirtland jet fuel spill may reach 24M gallons
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A decades-old jet fuel spill threatening Albuquerque's water supply could be as large as 24 million gallons, or twice the size of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez, New...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 10:10:05 EDT
  • Russia test-fires new ballistic missile
    MOSCOW — Russia on Wednesday successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile with an enhanced capability to penetrate missile defenses and commissioned a new early warning...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 11:17:18 EDT
  • Hospital at Langley to temporarily close
    HAMPTON, Va. — A hospital at Joint Base Langley-Eustis will close temporarily for construction.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 10:10:04 EDT
  • Lawyer blasts military justice, leaves practice
    A well-known military defense attorney who has represented troops in some of the most high-profile military cases in recent memory is planning to leave his criminal defense practice, saying he...
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 17:29:06 EDT
  • Taliban, Afghanistan neighbors may hamper exit
    KABUL, Afghanistan — The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Obama and his fellow world leaders.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 10:17:17 EDT
  • Panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt
    WASHINGTON — In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel on Tuesday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes U.S. assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens...
    Posted Tuesday May 22, 2012 17:59:48 EDT
  • Ore. Guard helos may search less for pot grows
    ENTERPRISE, Ore. — National Guard helicopters that spend hundreds of hours in the air during the growing season looking for clandestine marijuana grows could be on the ground more often next...
    Posted Tuesday May 22, 2012 17:48:56 EDT
  • Seat from 1963 B-52 crash believed found
    GREENVILLE, Maine — A forest ranger has found what's believed to be an ejection seat from a B-52 bomber that crashed on a western Maine mountain nearly 50 years ago, killing seven airmen.
    Posted Wednesday May 23, 2012 18:10:37 EDT
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