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1st. Lt. Alessandra Kirby negotiating the Darby Obstacle Course at Fort Benning during the Ranger Assessment in this undated photo. (AP Photo/US Army, Patrick A. Albright) ** FILE **

5 women drop out of U.S. Army Ranger School after second chance

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, has called for efforts to recover American hostages. (AP)

Duncan Hunter, Army battle over Green Beret Jason Amerine investigation

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The image of the gun-toting Israeli female warrior is widely seen as the prototype of a gender-blind military. Reality is different. The Israeli Ynet news service last week reported that the Israel Defense Forces studied but rejected the suggestion of women in tanks. (Associated Press)

Women’s combat roles in Israel Defense Forces exaggerated, military traditionalists say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A woman who fled Ramadi holds a child in a camp in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, Iraq, on Friday. (Associated Press)

Islamic State seizure of Ramadi has ex-troops frustrated with Iraqi forces, U.S. strategy

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

NUMBER 1. BOEING AH-64 APACHE is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability. An air weapons team of two AH-64D Apaches from the 1st "Attack" Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, come in for a landing at Camp Taji, Iraq, after completing a reconnaissance mission in the skies over Baghdad Nov. 6. Photo by Chief Warrant Officer 4 Daniel McClinton, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div.

Army told to get tougher with China, quit deferring to U.S. Navy in Asia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

DEBORAH SIMMONS: Military women deserve more than an afterthought

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

A Korean Air Airbus A380 (bottom left) is on display with other aircraft at the 49th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris on Monday, June 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Inside the Ring: Paris Air Show targeted by terrorists, spies

By Bill Gertz

In this photo provided by Eglin Air Force Base Public Affairs shows Brian Williams, an Air Force Wounded Warrior athlete as prepares to throw the discus during introductory adaptive sports and rehabilitation camp at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., April 14, 2015. Airmen gathered in the Florida Panhandle for a training camp hoping to defeat the Army, Marines and Navy next month at the 2015 Department of Defense Wounded Warrior Games in Quantico, Virginia. (Samuel King Jr. /Eglin Air Force Base via AP)

Severely injured vets find healing, hope through sports

By MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL - Associated Press

The National Women's Law Center is taking the U.S. military culture to task for being slow to integrate women into combat positions, but the pool of qualified females may in fact be limited. (Associated Press)

Women in combat: Test failures raise questions about how many can succeed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Fort Carson controllers lost track of a RQ-11 drone that landed in a man's yard in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Image: U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

Missing Fort Carson drone found in woman’s yard 12 miles away: ‘It looked expensive’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

$U.S. Army Pfc. Amy Alexanders dresses in her Marine Standard battle gear before taking part in a physical demands study in Ft. Stewart, Ga. Congress is prodding the armed forces to come up with a special line of women's combat boots, in different styles, as studies show that military women are more susceptible to stress fractures from marching and training. (Associated Press)$

U.S. military pressed to design special line of combat boots just for women

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

One challenge that Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford will face this fall as the new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman will be the social changes sweeping the armed forces. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Joseph Dunford, new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, to make call on women in combat

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A female member of the U.S. armed forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

Navy SEALs see no barrier to women in combat ranks

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Helena, a transgender person, stands next to her Serbian army uniform put on display in her friend's apartment Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Transgender army major wins victory in conservative Serbia

By Jovana Gec - Associated Press

In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Nigerian Soldiers man a check point in Gwoza, Nigeria, a town newly liberated from Boko Haram. Nigeria's military says it is moving 200 girls and 93 women from a northeastern forest where they were rescued from Boko Haram extremists. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi,File)

More women and children freed in Nigeria from Boko Haram extremists

Associated Press

The Army is asking the gun industry to build new components for its soldiers' primary weapon — the M4 carbine — a move that experts say is a tacit admission that the service has been supplying a flawed rifle that lacks the precision of commercially available guns. (Associated Press)

Army seeks gun industry help on M4 carbine in tacit admission of rifle’s flaws

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky., in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

8 women remain after first week of Army Ranger course

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

ROTC cadets participate in a "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event held at Temple University on April 1, 2015. (Image: Temple University Army ROTC)

Army ROTC program allegedly pushed men to wear high heels for ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’ event

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times