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Army, Navy and Air Force football on this weekend

By DAVID GINSBURG - Associated Press

Decision on BC-Army, AFA-Navy games by Thursday

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

Navy's Keenan Reynolds (19) celebrates a touchdown with Noah Copeland (34) and Gee Gee Greene, top, during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Army, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Philadelphia. Navy won 17-13. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Navy-Air Force game Saturday a ‘go’ despite shutdown

By Marc Lancaster - The Washington Times

Kyle Busch remembers 9/11, salutes airmen at Dover

By DAN GELSTON - Associated Press

A U.S. soldier talks on the phone as Afghan children wait to receive Afghan National Army's humanitarian aid in the Andar district of Ghazni province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on June 22, 2007. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Some U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** A photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an F-15E Strike eagle in-flight over Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2008. (Associated Press/U.S Air Force/Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon)

U.S. has bombs designed to ‘vaporize’ chemical, biological weapons

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Gen. Herbert J. Carlisle, commander of the Pacific Air Forces, has made remarks about U.S. military deployments that China sees as having a "strong Cold War flavor," Beijing's euphemism for anti-communism. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Air Force on China threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, a Malmstrom Air Force Base missile maintenance team removes the upper section of an ICBM at a Montana missile site. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, John Parie)

Montana nuclear missile chief fired for failed safety inspection

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Inside China: Military delays commercial flights

By Miles Yu

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile, used to intercept an incoming ballistic missile, during a test at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off the island of Kauai in Hawaii. (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)

U.S. nuclear missile unit fails key security inspection

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Retired Air Force Col. George "Bud" Day (left) laughs with Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, at a veterans town hall meeting and endorsement news conference at the Luke-Greenway American Legion Post No. 1 in Phoenix on Feb. 18, 2010. Col. Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam, where he was Mr. McCain's cellmate, died on Saturday, July 27, 2013, after a long illness. He was 88. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Air Force Col. Bud Day, Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 88

By Jennifer Kay and Melissa Nelson-Gabriel - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. soldiers pray before eating a Thanksgiving meal at a dining hall at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan (Associated Press)

CHUMLEY: Military under attack: Fight to show faith impacting ‘readiness’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team performs stunts for the crowd during the open house and air show at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Sunday, May 22, 2011. (The Washington Times)

Air Force finds funds to let Thunderbirds soar again

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

“I hold gunships really close to my heart,” says Airmen 1st Class Mary Howe, who passed the Delta Force test. (Family photograph)

Granddaughter qualifies to follow in boot steps of Delta Force founder

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Air Force Staff Sgt. Ben “Jake” Jacobs, a NATO special mission aviator, scans the terrain during a training mission with Afghans from the Kandahar Air Wing. Afghans must learn quickly to perform such missions on their own as they face combat with Taliban insurgents in the years ahead after foreign forces leave. (Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)

High expectations: Fledging Afghan air force pressured for readiness

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Under the careful watch of coalition advisers, members of the Kandahar Air Wing carry an injured Afghan soldier onto a Cessna 208. The Afghan air force is far from ready to take over combat responsibilities from NATO. (Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)

Afghan air force will need NATO aid until 2017

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

San Antonio again savors Spurs brining Finals home

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

San Antonio savors Spurs bringing Finals back home

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

Flying with the Afghan Air Force

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times