Iraq and the U.S. have reached preliminary agreement to withdraw American forces from Iraqi cities by next June, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday after meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Gen. David Petraeus is used to controversy surrounding the war in Iraq, but his publicized thoughts on an Army chaplain's guide book for Soldiers has a religion watchdog group demanding his dismissal and court martial.
The Navy has reversed course and decided to push for construction of a third stealth destroyer, Sen. Susan Collins said yesterday.
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Buried in a building is a dark room with no windows that is packed with computers. Watching these monitors are the disembodied, silhouetted heads of 436th Airlift Wing command post controllers, who work behind the scenes to keep Dover's global airlift mission operational.
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Early this month, the Corps introduced a new fitness test that goes way beyond the current PFT that measures pull ups, crunches and a timed, three-mile run. The new "combat fitness test" -- which will be administered in addition to the standard PFT -- are more representative of what Marines are doing on deployment.
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A tug and barge, with more than 21,000 gallons of fuel aboard, struck the Casco Bay Bridge in Maine. The 95-foot tug and 328-foot Energy barge were outbound to New York harbor when the barge hit the bridge fender on its right side.