WARSAW, Nov. 27, 2009 (Reuters) — Poland and the United States have agreed the legal details of deploying U.S. troops in Poland after lengthy negotiations, Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski said on Friday.

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[The 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy] are old men now, the soldiers who remain; many are frail and in ill health.

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Occupants of the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted President Manuel Zelaya is holed up with his supporters, are complaining about loud music blasted by soldiers.

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The Swedish armed forces have been hit by a major equipment problem, according to reports.

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Afghanistan? Give Them Hell Or Bring Our Troops Home!

Diplomacy has no place in Afghanistan because we are not there to keep the peace or to negotiate terms of endearments.

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Hooded men in uniforms without insignias on Wednesday shot and killed 12 members of the Awa indigenous group on a reserve in a region plagued by the cocaine trade, authorities said.

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...the new drones, made by Honeywell, are designed to hover over a crucial spot on a battlefield like helicopters, instead of flying in a wide circle.

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' "The very nature of SNS [social network sites] creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] pe …

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Defence minister informs parliament Muslim women may not wear headscarves in armed forces

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President Hugo Chavez recalled Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia and froze diplomatic relations with the neighboring country Tuesday.

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Sailors escorted from country after fisticuffs. I personally know people who saw the event. They work at the Marriott Tbilisi.

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They joined politicians and former Armed Forces chiefs in demanding that ministers provide more money to pay for helicopters and armoured vehicles for troops fighting in Helmand.

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One of the country's main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military.

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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he wants to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces "more humane" until Congress eventually repeals it. He said he has lawyers studying ways the law might be selectively enforced.

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Author Michael Aubrey Sarvis reports in the Huffington Post: Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998.

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As Numbers Continue to Climb, Top Officers Meet Monthly to Look for Answers

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Obama salutes veterans this Memorial Day weekend

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Madelyn Service imagines life is easier for other teenagers. Most American teens get to grow up in one place and make old friends. But for Service, it is different.

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Temperatures in Basra can be so extreme they fall off the end of the thermometer. When Jason Smith, a private with the territorial army, arrived there for "acclimatisation" before being deployed, the temperature in the shade was at the unmeasurable level past 50C.

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The U.S. military says it has no plans to repeal the "don't ask-don't tell" policy regarding homosexual troops.

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Many chronic-pain sufferers abuse their meds, according to a 2007 health-policy review published in the journal Pain Physician. But there are other ways to tackle pain.

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The U.S. Military is fielding one of the most heavily medicated fighting forces in history. That means they're not only fighting the enemy, but their prescriptions, too.

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On Afghanistan and Iraq, I think he's been good," Kristol told me in a pre-conference interview. "Gates, Clinton, Jones, Obama, Biden, Holbrooke—these are serious people.

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If anyone needed proof that AIG still doesn't get it, this is your proof. If anyone is yet to be convinced that the health insurance business needs to be overhauled, this should convince you.

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Colombia's largest rebel group promised on Thursday to release an army corporal kidnapped 11 years ago in a hostage case made famous by his dad, who walked across Colombia.

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