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Vets sue Defense Department over 1966 Spain H-bomb mishap

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, listens during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 13, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Security clearance points to problems with access to secrets

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, listens during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 13, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Security clearance backlog leads to risky interim passes

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 28, 2017, photo, an F-15C Eagle from the California Air National Guard, 144th Fighter Wing, flies out of the nicknamed Star Wars Canyon over Death Valley National Park, Calif. Military jets roaring over national parks have long drawn complaints from hikers and campers. But in California's Death Valley, the low-flying combat aircraft skillfully zipping between the craggy landscape has become a popular attraction in the 3.3 million acre park in the Mojave Desert, 260 miles east of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Military readiness was undermined by Obama experiments

By James A. Lyons

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, Texas Republican, said Wednesday he hopes the Trump administration will be open to increase the $603 billion budget proposal to rebuild the military will be increased to $640 billion. (Associated Press)

Mac Thornberry looks to increase Pentagon budget to $640 billion

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Correction: Trump-Campaign Ethics story

By JULIE BYKOWICZ - Associated Press

Defense Secretary James Mattis' authority to set U.S. troop levels for Afghanistan and the fight against Islamic State could ease the bitter bureaucratic battles that divided the Obama White House and the Pentagon over war strategy. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Pentagon freedom comes with blame

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo taken May 11, 2017, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Donald Trump to overhaul VA medical records system to link with Pentagon

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marines patrol the Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Large number of soldiers dismissed for misconduct suffer PTSD, TBI Report

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Remains of Vermont soldier killed in Korea to be returned

Associated Press

This undated photo obtained by the Associated Press shows an Iraqi bodyguard hired by Sallyport Global to protect VIPs. When a Toyota SUV was stolen from Balad air base, he became the chief suspect and was linked to a dangerous Iran-backed militia and was viewed by investigators as “a hard-core recruit to become a terrorist who poses a serious threat to all personnel on this base.” (Photo via AP)

US company turned blind eye to wild behavior on Iraq base

By DESMOND BUTLER and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

In this photo taken March 27, 2008, the Pentagon is seen in this aerial view. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Report: Troops complained about nude photo sharing last year

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2017 file photo, U.S. Coast Guard patrol Lake Worth Lagoon as President Donald Trump returns to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. It’s widely estimated that each trip to the resort costs taxpayers $3 million, based on a government study of the cost of a 2013 trip to Florida by President Barack Obama. But that trip was more complicated and the study’s author says it can’t be used to calculate the cost of Trump’s travel. This weekend, Trump is making his seventh visit to Mar-a-Lago since becoming president. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Do Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips cost $3 million?

By JULIE BYKOWICZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2017 file photo, U.S. Coast Guard patrol Lake Worth Lagoon as President Donald Trump returns to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. It’s widely estimated that each trip to the resort costs taxpayers $3 million, based on a government study of the cost of a 2013 trip to Florida by President Barack Obama. But that trip was more complicated and the study’s author says it can’t be used to calculate the cost of Trump’s travel. This weekend, Trump is making his seventh visit to Mar-a-Lago since becoming president. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Do Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips cost $3 million?

By JULIE BYKOWICZ - Associated Press

Democrats criticize Trump’s Air Force pick over past work

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 7, 2016 file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, right, confers with the committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional investigators are demanding documents and contacting witnesses in a wide-ranging probe of the Defense Department’s troubled anti-propaganda efforts against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Congress probes Islamic State counterpropaganda operations

By DESMOND BUTLER and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 7, 2016 file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, right, confers with the committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional investigators are demanding documents and contacting witnesses in a wide-ranging probe of the Defense Department’s troubled anti-propaganda efforts against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Congress probes Islamic State counter-propaganda operations

By DESMOND BUTLER and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

How the Trump administration can make doing business with DoD great again

By Capt. Dale Lumme

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2017, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump walk into the Pentagon in Washington. Mattis is making his debut with a visit to staunch U.S. allies South Korea and Japan, both of which host tens of thousands of American troops and, for good reason, see North Korea as their biggest national security threat. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Obama appointees flee Pentagon, Trump left with scores of vacancies to fill

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this screen grab of a photo from a Facebook posting, Col. Victor Garcia, left, who served as the senior officer overseeing CENTCOM’s counter-propaganda program from 2013 to mid-2016, poses on vacation with his friend Simon Bergman at Gilbert’s Resort in Key Largo, Fla. The photo was removed from Facebook shortly after it was posted on Sept. 16, 2016. Two weeks later, a $500 million contract was awarded to a team of companies that included Bergman’s firm M&amp;C Saatchi. A whistleblower complaint filed with Central Command’s inspector general said the photo created a “clear impression and perception of impropriety.” (AP Photo)

U.S. military botches online fight against Islamic State

By Desmond Butler and Richard Lardner - Associated Press