TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
Sequester Hits Disaster Relief
Feds Respond to Oklahoma Tornadoes
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senator Wants Aid Offset by Budget Cuts
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
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Joint Chiefs chairman reflects on Iraq as U.S. rushes to exit
December 14, 2011 CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait -- It's really happening. The last U.S. military convoy of nearly 700 troops is expected to drive out of Iraq into Kuwait on Sunday. There are just 14 convoys of gear left to haul out and more than 95 percent of all expected truckloads have already reached ...
Air Force will not inform families of landfill remains
December 9, 2011 Responding to press revelations that the remains of hundreds of additional U.S. troops ended up in a landfill, an Air Force official said that the military regretted the pain the news may cause their families, but that the Pentagon would not inform them in order to honor their original wishes. ...
Investigators find 'gross mismanagement' of war remains at Dover AFB
November 8, 2011 The Air Force mishandled human remains of America's returning war dead at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, according to three federal investigations stemming from three civilian whistleblower accusations. The Washington Post reports body parts were removed from corpses without family notification, or were missing from mortuary storage bags, including ...
Pentagon explains Panetta’s warning that sequestration would cost 1.5 million jobs
November 2, 2011 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta surprised everyone when he contended in September that the sequestration trigger would result in a 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate, costing 1.5 million jobs in defense and other areas. Nearly seven weeks later, the Pentagon has an explanation. Pentagon spokesman George Little said in ...
