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A Humvee accident in Iraq about nine years ago left U.S. Navy veteran Benjamin Host with 23 screws in his head and a quarter of his skull reconstructed.
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The Defense Department is looking for ways to cut the size and budgets for agencies and staff that provide support to the active-duty military, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he’s still reviewing options that may avert furloughs more than three months after the Pentagon said automatic budget cuts may require unpaid leave for as many as 750,000 civilian workers.
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The Pentagon has decided it’s in the national interest to keep buying MI-17 transport helicopters for the Afghan military from a Russian company that’s been scrutinized by Congress over its arms sales to Syria.
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The Pentagon has given managers authority to start firing some of its 46,000 temporary workers now in anticipation of across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect in March according to Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
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The Pentagon “might not have enough funds” to pay for its health-care system under automatic spending cuts set to take effect March 1, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
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The U.S. effort to extricate its forces from Afghanistan is complicated by the challenge of teaching mostly illiterate Afghan troops how to carry out independent military operations.
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Ashton Carter, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, is being nominated by President Barack Obama to become deputy defense secretary.
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The U.S. Defense Department welcomes mergers among U.S. defense companies provided they don’t involve the top five or six suppliers acquiring each other, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said.
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Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said today “it is more likely than unlikely” that automatic defense cuts of as much as $45 billion will be triggered March 1.
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