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August 29th, 2011  |  Published in Military News

45 of 86 airmen since March fail Spice tests

More than half of the airmen tested for the designer drug Spice have had positive results, the Air Force Times reported.

 

Ranger Widow Booted From Rumsfeld Book Signing

SEATTLE — A military widow from Yelm who contends the Army is not providing enough care for Soldiers returning from combat confronted former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to “vent” her feelings — and got escorted out of the building where he was holding a book signing.

 

Where Generations Of Soldiers Healed And Moved On

On a recent morning, John Pierce walked across the sprawling hospital campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. On the lawn, he spotted people who have come to define the place in recent years.

 

Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Moammar Gadhafi told his people he lived modestly during his nearly 42-year rule over Libya, often sleeping in a Bedouin tent.

 

Libyan rebels face test dealing with pro-Gadhafi suspects

TRIPOLI, Libya — Jamila Salem had been up since five a.m., searching Tripoli on Sunday for her missing son, Adel. First, she’d visited the military base that rebels now control in central Tripoli where Adel had been a soldier in the Libyan army.

 

Soldier Murder Suspect Found Dead

After killing four people in two states, wounding two police officers and prompting a daylong manhunt during a hurricane, an Army captain from Virginia was found dead in a patch of Bucks County woods Sunday afternoon, apparently by his own hand.

 

New Documents Show Bay Of Pigs Errors

A once-secret CIA history of the Bay of Pigs invasion lays out in unvarnished detail how the American spy agency came to the rescue of and cut deals with authoritarian governments in Central America, largely to hide the U.S. role in organizing and controlling the hapless Cuban exile invasion force.

 

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