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MEB overhaul aims to help with crisis response Times Prime content.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The slowing pace of deployments to Afghanistan and resurgence in unit rotations to Asia-Pacific is helping to shape Marine expeditionary brigades, which the Marine Corps is counting on as its go-to crisis-response forces.

Sources: Obama to nominate Hagel as SecDef
WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, choosing a former Senate colleague and a decorated Vietnam...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 16:55:14 EST
Uncertainty grows over Pentagon budget
Permanently avoiding massive Pentagon budget cuts could prove difficult as Washington enters a fight over the nation's borrowing limit, a coming political battle that will bring big federal spending...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 13:29:50 EST
Communities raise noise concerns over F-35
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — Plans on where to base the U.S. military's next-generation fighter jet, the F-35, concern people in communities from California to Florida to Maine who worry the...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 16:21:02 EST
Pakistan: U.S. drones kill 9 militants
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected American drones fired several missiles into three militant hideouts near the Afghan border on Sunday, killing nine Pakistani Taliban fighters,...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 9:41:02 EST
Suicide bombers kill 5 at Afghan compound
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombers penetrated a government compound in the country's south Sunday, killing five people, Afghan officials said. There were no reports of foreign...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 9:41:02 EST
Sens. Reed, Levin visit Afghanistan, Pakistan
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin are in Afghanistan for a trip that will also take them to neighboring Pakistan...
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 15:00:50 EST
McChrystal takes blame for magazine article
WASHINGTON — Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal takes the blame for a Rolling Stone article and the unflattering comments attributed to his staff...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 15:09:45 EST
Vets face residency confusion at state schools
RALEIGH, N.C. — In choosing to serve her country in uniform, Hayleigh Lynn Perez knowingly accepted a nomadic life. Now the former Army sergeant says she and thousands of other veterans trying...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 10:03:48 EST
Do women want the toughest fighting jobs?
WASHINGTON — If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops — the country's front-line warfighters — how many women will want to?
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 10:17:52 EST
Inhofe takes McCain’s spot on the SASC
OKLAHOMA CITY — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma is now the ranking Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 10:02:37 EST
TBS asks fleet about lieutenants’ quality
Officials at The Basic School want to be sure they're turning out capable officers, so they're surveying the operating forces to make sure lieutenants and warrant officers fresh to the field are...
Posted Sunday Jan 6, 2013 12:01:12 EST
New national security team coming into focus
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama may round out his new national security leadership team next week, with a nomination for defense secretary expected and a pick to lead the Central...
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 9:53:53 EST
2010 Pentagon shooter deemed schizophrenic
McLEAN, Va. — The ex-Marine who fired shots at the Pentagon and Marine Corps museum in 2010 has been classified as schizophrenic by government doctors, but prosecutors said Friday they still...
Posted Friday Jan 4, 2013 18:56:50 EST
Unemployment rises for all veterans in December
The unemployment rate rose slightly for veterans in December while remaining steady for the nation as a whole.
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 15:06:39 EST
Troops arrive in Turkey for Patriot missiles
ANKARA, Turkey — U.S. troops have started to arrive in Turkey to man Patriot missiles meant to protect the NATO ally from potential Syrian warheads, the U.S. military said Friday.
Posted Friday Jan 4, 2013 13:54:12 EST
Incarcerated veterans train dogs for other vets
CRESAPTOWN, Md. — Hazard Wilson's new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can't be contained by steel doors: a 5-month-old golden retriever. Yardley is one of three canines...
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 14:39:39 EST
Big push in new Congress for gun control
WASHINGTON — Supporters of tighter federal gun restrictions moved quickly Thursday, the first day of the new Congress, introducing bills in the wake of last month's deadly mass shooting in...
Posted Friday Jan 4, 2013 7:47:13 EST
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban leaves hospital
LONDON – Malala Yousufzai, the schoolgirl and women's rights activist from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban and subsequently flown to the United Kingdom for treatment, has been...
Posted Friday Jan 4, 2013 7:42:29 EST
Afghanistan frees militants once held by U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Some 250 prisoners formerly held by the U.S. have been released by Afghan authorities in hopes that this will lead to reconciliation in the 11-year conflict, a Defense...
Posted Friday Jan 4, 2013 17:25:14 EST
Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers accused the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film "Zero Dark Thirty" by allegedly telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down...
Posted Saturday Jan 5, 2013 11:38:14 EST