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Military plans to open more combat jobs to women by 2016
www.washingtonpost.com-June 19, 2013
By 2016, women could be permitted to train for most combat roles, including infantry and artillery positions, under detailed plans released by the Pentagon on Tuesday describing how to integrate female troops throughout the armed forces.
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Less ‘Rambo’ Seen in New U.S. Military Culture
www.nytimes.com-June 19, 2013
“The days of Rambo are over,” the two-star general in charge of personnel policy for Special Operations Command said on Tuesday in explaining the changes in military culture that led to opening front-line combat positions to women.
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U.S. Naval Academy football players face charges over alleged 2012 rape
www.washingtonpost.com-June 18, 2013
Several U.S. Naval Academy football players will soon face charges in connection with the alleged rape of a female midshipman at an off-campus party more than a year ago, officials at the elite service academy in Annapolis said Monday.
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Google to DOJ: Let us prove to users that NSA isn't snooping on them
www.foxnews.com-June 12, 2013
There is a "serious misperception" about the National Security Agency's PRISM program, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in an exclusive interview with Fox News. On Tuesday the company pushed back against the layers of secrecy surrounding the agency's alleged blanket snooping on American citizens.
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Lawmakers demand crackdown on sex assault in military
www.washingtonpost.com-June 05, 2013
The uniformed chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, flanked by dozens of junior officers, jammed into a Senate hearing room Tuesday to field hours of uncomfortable, sometimes withering questions from lawmakers about an epidemic of sexual assaults.
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Joint Chiefs’ Answers on Sex Crimes Dismay Senators
www.nytimes.com-June 05, 2013
Senator Roy Blunt sat silently for nearly an hour as his colleagues on the Armed Services Committee questioned one military leader after another on Tuesday about what they were doing to address the problem of sexual assault in the military, and then assessed their responses: “Stunningly bad.”
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U.S. military chiefs balk at taking sex-assault cases out of commanders’ hands
www.washingtonpost.com-June 04, 2013
The nation’s military chiefs have told Congress in writing that they oppose or have strong reservations about a controversial bill that would reshape military law by taking sexual-assault cases out of the hands of commanders, setting up a likely clash with lawmakers who are pushing the idea.
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Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults
www.nytimes.com-June 03, 2013
Senator Claire McCaskill wandered down the dais at the Senate Armed Services Committee’s first hearing of the year and noticed a startling tableau: women to the left, women to the right.
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Military chiefs to face tough sexual assault questions
www.usatoday.com-June 03, 2013
Military service chiefs who will testify Tuesday about their plans to deal with the burgeoning crisis of sexual assault in the ranks will face a group of female senators determined to change a culture they call demeaning to women.
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U.S. Combat Commanders Should Handle War Zone Investigations, Panel Says
www.nytimes.com-May 31, 2013
Concerned about possible flaws in criminal proceedings against American troops accused of killing or abusing civilians in a war zone, a Defense Department panel has proposed that investigations and prosecutions of crimes be carried out by a senior commander in the theater of combat and not the branch of the armed services in which the accused serves.
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Pentagon begins notifying workers of their up to 11 furlough days
www.washingtonpost.com-May 30, 2013
The Department of Defense has begun delivering furlough notices to civilian employees, who are scheduled to start taking up to 11 unpaid days beginning July 8.
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Congress Stepping Up Its Efforts Against Sexual Assault in Military
www.nytimes.com-May 24, 2013
House Speaker John A. Boehner on Thursday called the rise of sexual assaults in the military a “national disgrace” as lawmakers in both chambers of Congress moved closer this week to legislation to address the problem.
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Joint Chiefs to testify on sexual assault legislation
www.thehill.com-May 24, 2013
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs and all of the military service chiefs will be making a rare joint appearance on Capitol Hill next month to testify on the numerous proposals in Congress to address military sexual assault.
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Hagel directs Pentagon to seek new software for health records
www.washingtonpost.com-May 23, 2013
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to seek new healthcare management software that would better integrate military health care records with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Hagel to exempt DOD sex assault prevention workers from furloughs
www.politico.com-May 22, 2013
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is exempting around 500 civilian sexual assault prevention personnel from this year’s mandatory furloughs, a senior defense official told POLITICO, in a bid to show the Pentagon is serious about cracking down on sexual assault in the ranks.
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