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Military Plans Would Put Women in Most Combat Jobs
(WASHINGTON) — Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon. ...

Apologies Instead of Action
One would think that when the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of their staffs took their seats in the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on June 4, they...

Syrian No-Fly Zone: No-Brainer or No Sense?
Lawmakers on Sunday pressed for President Obama to out a "no-fly zone" in place over Syria, even as U.S. military officers have expressed doubts over its...

Army Suspends Top Commander in Japan
TOKYO – Well, this is embarrassing. Just days after the Marines handed out wallet cards reminding troops in the Pacific to behave ethically, the Army’s top...

Morning Must Reads: June 14
In the news: Syria, Iran's election, Turkey's concession, military sexual assaults, Obama's expensive South Africa trip, Murdoch, and the most lopsided...
Photo Essays

Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers’ Funeral, June 15, 1963
In 1994, eight black and four white jurors found 74-year-old white supremacist and long-time Klan member Byron De La Beckwith guilty of first-degree murder in...

May Is National Nurses Month: Time to Say ‘Thank You!’
Some jobs are so emblematic of how we all perceive ourselves (or rather, they’re emblematic of how we hope others might perceive us) that, paradoxically, it’s...
Time.com Specials

The Afghan Diaries
A former U.S. Army captain embeds as a journalist with his old unit, which has been reassigned to Afghanistan after several years in Iraq


