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Rep. Mike Honda, (D-CA) has submitted a bill to the U.S. House that would prohibit the sale, use, or possession of what he terms military-grade body armor.

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The U.S. Army is working on a standard resupply system that will make it faster and easier to resupply soldiers with more equipment, even in combat.

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The United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) rallied its community to garner support for ‘Almost Sunrise,’ an up-and-coming documentary that brings to light a new and unfortunate epidemic of suicide among the country’s veteran community.

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Military therapy dogs are helping persuade troops returning from combat to enter into and stick with counseling.

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Soldiers are rushing to get their new tattoos before the ink dries on a new Army edict that prohibits tattoos on the face, neck, eyelids, mouth and ear. The new rule, which was issued March 31, has a 30-day grace period, and soldiers are rushing to take advantage of it, The New York Times reports. […]

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The Army has disqualified 588 soldiers from the pool of potential sexual assault counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants after a recent review revealed they had committed disqualifying infractions. While it’s inevitable some soldiers will be barred from obtaining “positions of trust,” the number of disqualified troops has increased by 1,000 percent since May of last […]

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As Italy’s glaciers melt away, they slowly reveal the entombed bodies of slain WWI soldiers hidden within the ice. The corpses are being discovered in the remote Alpine village of Peio, home to an obscure bit of WWI history. In 1915, Italy joined forces with the Allies and entered into The White War. The Italian […]

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“We Are Not Dead” is a series of portraits of British soldiers before, during and after an eight-month deployment in Afghanistan. British photographer Lalage Snow captured the portraits as an “attempt at giving the brave young men and women the chance to speak.” In the full gallery, the portraits are captioned with the thoughts and feelings of each […]

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Research out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims a new vaccine may be able to prevent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The research has proven successful in preventing PTSD thus far in clinical trials in rats by blocking a hormone produced by the stomach called ghrelin. MIT is now teaming up with the Massachusetts General […]

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A group of 13 Marines may have been gone fighting a war in Afghanistan, but they were not forgotten when they finally returned home and were greeted with a hero’s welcome.

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Military 'arrival ceremonies' are misleading because the recovered remains are not arriving to the U.S. for the first time. They've been here for months, NBC News has learned.

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Many Americans have spoken out against our country’s plan to attack Syria, and now, it seems, some of our uniformed soldiers have joined the ranks as well. Uniformed soldiers across various branches of our military have taken up arms against our nation’s likely attack against Syria. Photos have surfaced from Facebook of United States warriors […]

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