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tulsaworld.com • Sat 2011 Mar 5, 9:59pm

Okla FlagGov. Mary Fallin visited nearby Camp Gruber on Thursday and expressed confidence in the training of Oklahoma Army National Guard troops as they prepared for an upcoming mission to Afghanistan.

space.com • Thu 2011 Mar 3, 8:53pm

The U.S. military's super-secret X-37B space plane is all set to launch on its second mission Friday, though what it will be doing on orbit remains a mystery. The X-37B will launch from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas 5 rocket.

news.blogs.cnn.com • Wed 2011 Mar 2, 12:06pm

Two people were shot and killed Wednesday in an incident involving a U.S. military bus at Frankfurt Airport in Germany.... troops killed and injured are U.S. Air Force airmen from Lakenheath base in the United Kingdom, the U.S. official said, emphasizing that the information was only preliminary.... It's believed the German police have a young Kosovo national in custody

AF.mil • Sat 2011 Feb 5, 1:13pm

Here's a beautiful story, linked from Drudge, and is now wide-spread, but in case you didn't see it, a family adopts the canine companion of the fallen Marine son.

tulsaworld.com • Mon 2009 Jun 29, 3:41pm

US FlagStaff Sgt. Sean Samaroo was inspired to join the military nine years ago by the Army's "be all you can be" TV commercial. It was a prophetic slogan for Samaroo, who last year found himself in the midst of one of the deadliest battles of the war in Afghanistan, tenaciously fighting back an overwhelming enemy onslaught. Earlier this month, Samaroo was awarded the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.

alertnet.org • Wed 2009 Jun 24, 3:05pm

The Pentagon will create a Cyber Command to oversee the U.S. military's efforts to protect its computer networks and operate in cyberspace.... will be responsible for defending U.S. military systems but not other U.S. government or private networks...

tulsaworld.com • Thu 2009 Jun 18, 12:14pm

The two Okies, who that fall were driving their fellow scouts crazy with talk about the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team, themselves ran the ultimate 100-yard dash, not once, but twice. Both were awarded Bronze Stars for their actions. One of the Afghan soldiers died from his wounds, but one lived — a second chance at life for a central Asian country boy, courtesy of two Oklahoma country boys.

wnd.com • Sun 2009 Jun 14, 8:35pm

US FlagHis main quest in life was to discover what had happened to his son, Zachary. Captured in Lebanon in 1982, there was information the past few years Zachary still was alive and was being held in Syria.

tulsaworld.com • Fri 2009 Jun 12, 12:51pm

A headquarters is being built for his foundation, which raises scholarship funds for families of killed or disabled military personnel.

newson6.com • Tue 2009 Jun 9, 12:39pm

Guthrie soldier... Oklahoma Army National Guard Cpl. Adam Schuster... shot in the neck while serving in Iraq will be presented with a Purple Heart medal during a ceremony at the state Capitol.

breitbart.com • Mon 2009 Jun 8, 8:05pm

In court papers, the administration said the appeals court ruled correctly in this case when it found that "don't ask, don't tell" is "rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in military discipline and cohesion."

newson6.com • Fri 2009 Jun 5, 3:06pm

Army Private Matt Brown returned home on Thursday morning to screaming family and friends and his bride-to-be.

google.com • Wed 2009 Jun 3, 7:40pm

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and four former U.S. attorneys are among those pressing military officials to throw out an Army officer's murder conviction in the death of an Iraqi detainee.

space.com • Wed 2009 Jun 3, 2:12pm

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are gearing up to loft the X-37B into space in 2010. ...an unpiloted military space plane...

examiner-enterprise.com • Mon 2009 May 25, 2:31pm

Sutton served his country both as an U.S. Army soldier as well as a member of the Air Force and the Air Guard, the former during the Vietnam conflict. The ride is currently foremost in his mind, but such rides are never far from his thoughts. This one will be held for Army Spc. Adam Noel Brewer. The 22-year-old was killed Feb. 25, 2005 near Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on patrol.

newson6.com • Fri 2009 May 22, 8:15pm

Dozens of soldiers will make return home in time for Memorial Day. There are 120 Oklahoma National Guard troops that will land on Sunday; 80 of those will return to Tulsa. They've been in Iraq for the past eight months.

upi.com • Thu 2009 May 21, 9:08pm

A former U.S. Army private received a life sentence with no parole Thursday for raping an Iraqi teenager and killing her and her family. Prosecutors sought the death penalty for Steven Green, but jurors in federal court in Kentucky were unable to agree on the sentence.... killings took place in March 2006. Investigators Green and other soldiers broke into Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi's house in Mahmudiya. Others in the group testified Green killed the teen's parents and sister and shot her in the head. Four other soldiers pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison.

newson6.com • Wed 2009 May 20, 7:51pm

Members of Muskogee's 341st Engineering Company enjoyed a happy homecoming on Wednesday. They are back home after a year in Iraq.

wired.com • Fri 2009 May 15, 5:47pm

When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they'll read each other's minds. At least, that's the hope of researchers at the Pentagon's mad-science division Darpa. The agency's budget for the next fiscal year includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk. The goal is to "allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals."

msnbc.msn.com • Tue 2009 May 12, 4:25pm

SHERMAN, Texas — The father of a U.S. soldier accused of killing five fellow troops in Iraq said his son "forfeited his life" but the military bears some responsibility for the rampage. Wilburn Russell said Tuesday that 44-year-old Army Sgt. John M. Russell wasn't typically a violent person, but counselors "broke" him before gunfire erupted in a military stress center Monday in Baghdad. "John has forfeited his life. Apparently, he said (to his wife), 'My life is over. To hell with it. I'm going to get even with 'em,'" said the elder Russell, 73

time.com • Wed 2009 Apr 8, 9:50pm

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now the longest waged by an all-volunteer force in U.S. history. Even as soldiers rotate back into the field for multiple and extended tours, the Army requires a constant supply of new recruits. But the patriotic fervor that led so many to sign up after 9/11 is now eight years past. That leaves recruiters with perhaps the toughest, if not the most dangerous, job in the Army. Last year alone, the number of recruiters who killed themselves was triple the overall Army rate. Like posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, recruiter suicides are a hidden cost of the nation's wars.

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washingtonpost.com • Wed 2008 Dec 3, 4:00pm

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said. There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.

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usnews.com • Fri 2008 Nov 21, 10:12pm

As the U.S. military garners increasing counterinsurgency experience in America's long-standing war in Afghanistan, soldiers are questioning one military restriction that has long been the norm within the U.S. armed forces: the prohibition against beards.

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