When it comes to the written word — or spoken ones, for that matter — the U.S. military is in a league of its own. There’s the military’s love affair with ‘lethality’; its obsession with acronyms, of which it has hundreds if not thousands; its robust arsenal of slang; the way enlisted troops use expletives …
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Whether a call comes over the radio of shots fired or you happen upon an accident while looking for spare parts at the local junkyard, you will be glad to have a tourniquet on hand and the training to use it. Of course, the challenge is finding the right one. A simple search on Amazon …
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Cape Verde’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a businessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who was arrested last year in the West African country can be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges, a lawyer said. Geraldo Almeida, one of the Cape Verde attorneys representing Alex Saab in …
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Minority students are significantly underrepresented when it comes to getting nominations from members of Congress to attend the nation’s military service academies, according to an analysis released Wednesday. The study by the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center and the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School included nearly 25 … View original article
American military members around the world have been showing off the inside of their barracks rooms for months in a crowdsourced version of MTV Cribs. “If you’re in the military and you live in the barracks, use this sound to show off your barracks room,” a soldier named Chandler Flood said in a video posted …
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