by Jacqueline Klimas | Jun 29, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — A different kind of surveillance is going on in the U.S. armed forces. A monitoring system you may not know about tracks troops and their movements to ensure that potentially pandemic diseases do not spread between countries. Formed in 1997 by the...
by Rema Rahman | Jun 28, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON –The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Tuesday to continue keeping the U.S. military off the ground in Libya and to limit the operation to one year unless NATO ends operations sooner. The plan also makes Libyans and Arab League nations...
by Melissa Benson | May 31, 2011 | National Security
ARLINGTON, Va. — Ray Capouch, a Marine Corps veteran, has a Memorial Day tradition. He comes each year to meet Bob Dole, the former senator from Kansas, at the ampitheater behind the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But this year–his sixth trip to Arlington...
by Phillip Swarts | May 13, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A new era for women has dawned at the Veterans Affairs Department, officials said Thursday. “We’ve changed the culture of the VA,” said Patricia Hayes, chief consultant for the Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group in the department....
by Melissa Benson | May 11, 2011 | National Security
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Marine Corps paid tribute to one of its own Tuesday at the Iwo Jima Memorial. Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, gave the department’s highest award for valor to Gunnery Sergeant Brian Blonder. “For his actions, Gunny Blonder will be...
