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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

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[img] Studies: Cyberspying targeted SKorea, US military
The hackers who knocked out tens of thousands of South Korean computers simultaneously this year are out to do far more than erase hard drives, cybersecurity firms say: They also are trying to steal South Korean and U.S. military secrets with a malicious set of codes they've been sending through the Internet for years.

 
[img] Egypt's army chief trained at Army War College
With unrest in Egypt, U.S. military officials looking for insight might test the ties they formed with the Egyptian defense minister, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, when he was a student at the Army War College.

 
[img] Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows
The nation's top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.

 
[img] 88-year-old veteran rides bike for peace
On April 29, Sam Winstead donned his “Sam’s Ride for Peace” T-shirt, strapped on his helmet and headed out on a 350-mile bicycle ride to Washington, D.C. It was the second year in a row the 88-year-old Leasburg, N.C., resident had set out on this journey, his effort to spread the message that war is not the answer for the world’s problems, he said.

 
[img] Goodbye paper maps, hello iPad minis: Scott pilots test new 'electronic flight bags'
There are two things you notice right off about the C-21A passenger jet under the command of Air Force Maj. Jared Detloff. First, the cockpit that Detloff shares with his co-pilot is small and cramped — as in sardines-in-a-can small and cramped.

 
[img] Search persists for remnants from 1952 plane crash
For 60 years, rough glacial terrain east of Anchorage held tight the 52 men killed when their Air Force plane slammed into Mount Gannett on Nov. 22, 1952. Now, for the second summer running, plane wreckage and human remains are being given up by Colony Glacier, more than a dozen miles from the crash site.

 
[img] Defense presents video in Manning WikiLeaks trial
Lawyers for an Army private who gave mountains of classified information to WikiLeaks opened their defense at his court-martial Monday with leaked video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad - footage in which airmen laugh and call targets "dead bastards."

 
[img] One family’s mission to find a lost pilot
For nearly 50 years, the family of Capt. Harry Cecil Moore assumed that he’d been killed in the Korean War. Then in 2002, the family received a shock: The Air Force pilot might have survived and ended up a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union.

 
[img] Lawyers argue Guantanamo captive so sick he should go home
Ibrahim Idris is an obese, diabetic, schizophrenic Sudanese man who has mostly lived at Guantánamo’s psychiatric ward since he got to the U.S. terror prison in Cuba on the day it opened. U.S. military intelligence has profiled him as an al-Qaida insider. But even his fellow prisoners don’t want him around, according to court records, because he behaves bizarrely — wears his underwear on his head, whispers to himself, is delusional.

 
[img] Minority veterans face additional post-service issues
He still hears the screams, sees the agonizing facial expressions on his friends as they die, feels the blood splattering across his face. Absentmindedly, he starts to wipe away at the lenses of his glasses.

 




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