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Former Marine Adam Kokesh is detained by Capitol Hill Police on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, as Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the future course of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

US Soldiers Fight For Freedom, Democracy Abroad, But Don’t Always Find It At Home

DARPA Is Testing Implanting Chips In Soldiers’ Brains

“Are hunter-killer robots right around the bend?”

September 29th, 2015
Fusion
September 29th, 2015
By Fusion
U.S. soldiers

For decades, DARPA, the secretive research arm of the Department of Defense, has dreamed of turning soldiers into cyborgs. And now it’s finally happening. The agency has funded projects that involve implanting chips into soldiers’ brains that could one day enhance performance on the battlefield and repair traumatized brains once the fog of war has

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Patriotism At A Price: US Military Paid NFL Teams To ‘Honor’ Soldiers At Games

New York Jets received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of years to salute ‘hometown heroes’.

May 11th, 2015
Sarah Lazare
May 11th, 2015
By Sarah Lazare
Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Army service members salute during a ceremony at Giants stadium before the New York Jets game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. (Photo: Marine Corps/Sgt. Randall A. Clinton/public domain)

Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Army service members salute during a ceremony at Giants stadium before the New York Jets game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. (Photo: Marine Corps/Sgt. Randall A. Clinton/public domain)   What better way to advertise military culture—and recruit teenagers—than by staging

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Sex, Drugs, and Dead Soldiers: What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You To Know

Six people lay lifeless in the filthy brown water. Three of the dead were American commandos.

April 25th, 2015
Nick Turse
April 25th, 2015
By Nick Turse

Soldiers of the East Africa Response Force (EARF), a Djibouti-based joint team assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, depart from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules in Juba, South Sudan. Three of the dead were American commandos.  The driver, a captain nicknamed “Whiskey Dan,” was the leader of a shadowy team of operatives never

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Soldiers: Strippers, Smiters, Mockers, Spitters, Gamblers, Thieves, Liars, Scourgers…

“After reading and hearing scores of Christian apologists for the military over the past ten years defend the role of Christians in the military who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have come to the conclusion that they have all drunk from the same corrupt spring. “

April 18th, 2014
Laurence M Vance
April 18th, 2014
By Laurence M Vance
IRAQ

On this Good Friday, Christians are focused on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a propitiation for the sins of the world. But on every other day of the year (expect perhaps Christmas), many Christians are focused on some other people in the Bible. The Bible on several occasions likens a Christian to a soldier (Philippians 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:3,

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PTSD, Misdiagnosis Linked to Soldier Rampages, Violence

“There is a tsunami heading our way, particularly when one of the wars is over and there is a downsize in the military, that’s when you’re going to see a lot problems emerging.”

January 12th, 2012
Joey LeMay
January 12th, 2012
By Joey LeMay
Afghanistan | Veterans Suicide

After Jorge Gonzalez returned home to Washington from a 15-month tour in Iraq, he attempted to kill himself. Gonzalez became distant with his wife and kids at times, who noticed he was not the same person after his deployment. People saw I drank more, became depressed,” Gonzalez, 32, said. “ ... I didn’t want to be in large crowds because I

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