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Army soldiers allegedly bought $87K worth of weapons to kill Obama
Prosecutors alleged Monday that four Army soldiers arrested for killing a former soldier and his girlfriend were plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government. The Associated Press reported that the four soldiers, part of a Georgia-based militia called Forever Enduring Always Ready (FEAR), had spent at least $87,000…
Obama: AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not criminals
President Barack Obama on Wednesday night vowed to do everything he could to prevent “not just of gun violence but violence at every level” in the wake of the Colorado theater mass shooting. “I think we recognize the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that…
Mullen: 18 veterans kill themselves every day in the U.S.
Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a…
Israeli army says soldiers suspected of drug-running
JERUSALEM — Israeli military police have arrested 15 people, most of them soldiers, accused of helping smuggle drugs from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula across the southern Israeli border, the army said on Monday. The military’s website described the affair as “one the biggest ever in terms of the quantity of hard…
Active duty soldiers send message of tolerance to gay teens
A group of active duty soldiers in Bagram, Afghanistan recently released their own contribution to the “It Gets Better” video series, sending a message of tolerance to gay and bisexual teens hounded by bullies and their peers. “It’s really hard, being accepted, to be different,” one soldier explains. “But it’s…
Undersupplied U.S soldiers forced to steal water
This kind of garbage happened under Bush; this news should signal to the Obama administration that those serving on his watch surely don’t need to suffer this indignity and level of resource depletion. The Army’s field manual states that in the desert, the human body can lose as much as…
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