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The first page of the report released by U.S. Central Command Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, on the friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in June is photographed in Washington on Sept. 4, 2014. Avoidable miscommunication between U.S. air and ground forces led to a incident that killed five U.S. soldiers and one Afghan. The report cited a collective failure by soldiers, commanders and air crew members to execute the fundamentals of the mission. As a result, the five Americans and one Afghan were mistaken for the enemy and were attacked with two laser-guided bombs from a B-1 bomber. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Miscommunication blamed for deadly US mistake

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Iowa Republicans say they couldn't ask for much more in their struggle to put one of their own into the U.S. Senate seat of retiring liberal Democrat Tom Harkin. Joni Ernst is anything but a shoo-in for November — she trailed Democratic primary winner Bruce Braley by 5 percentage points in recent polling. (Associated Press)

Senate candidates focus on military, veterans

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

This undated image provided by the Army shows Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison Sr. Harrison, a two-star Army general faulted for failing to properly investigate sexual assault and other accusations against a colonel on his staff will be retired at one-star rank, the Army announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chip Steitz)

Army demotes 2-star for failing to properly investigate sexual assault charges

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

U.S. Army's Advanced Hypersonic Weapon concept is pictured. (Image: U.S. Army)

Rocket with Army weapon explodes after launch

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Jani Bergdahl, mother of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the release of her son, during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Saturday, May 31, 2014. Bergdahl, 28, had been held prisoner by the Taliban since June 30, 2009. He was handed over to U.S. special forces by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees held by the United States. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bergdahl release violated law, used improper monies

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 1st Lt. Kelly Requa, third from right, speaks with troops during certification at a fires direction center at Ft. Bragg, N.C. Requa is breaking new ground at Fort Bragg. She’s one of a small number of female lieutenants brought into lead a cannon platoon at the North Carolina base. By January 2016, the U.S. military must open all combat jobs to women or explain why any must remain closed. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

NC civilian employee union opposes military cuts

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munitions: National Guard Sgt. Larry J. Isbell fires at targets with his M4A1 carbine rifle. The Army is looking to phase out the longstanding weapon, but the potential suppliers to do so, as well as the competition results, remain shrouded in secrecy. (photo by spc. venessa hernandez)

Army quits tests after competing rifle outperforms M4A1 carbine

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl preparing to be interviewed by Army investigators in August, 2014. The U.S. Army has begun questioning Bergdahl about his disappearance in Afghanistan that led to five years in captivity by the Taliban, his attorney and an Army spokeswoman said Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell) MANDATORY CREDIT

Army extends investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl case

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

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Jeremey Renner, actor; Brigadier General Loree Sutton, M.D., director of Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury; and Brandon Millet, president of the GI Film Festival answer questions from audience at a screening of The Hurt Locker. (Photo by Renae Kleckner)

Former Army psychiatrist to be NYC’s veterans head

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Protesters hold a sign in front of the Vatterott College campus in St. Joseph, Mo. on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 in support of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/St. Joseph News-Press, Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

EDITORIAL: When cops play soldier

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Army Spc. David Zink, of Leavenworth, Kan., of Tactical Command Post, HQ Company, 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, walks with platoon-mates during a joint patrol with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010. Soldiers in Zhari operate in a district which is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, and holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with a support network providing them with explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Civic leaders alarmed about possible Army cuts

By MATT CAMPBELL - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, briefs reporters at the Pentagon, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, where he recommended shrinking the Army to its smallest size since the buildup to U.S. involvement in World War II in an effort to balance postwar defense needs with budget realities. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Additional Army cuts rattle Pentagon

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery, Colorado Army National Guard fire tracer rounds from the M240B at Fort Hood, Texas. (Image: U.S. Army)

Army’s upcoming tracer rounds will light up the night while leaving enemies in the dark

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Army to test next generation nano drone PD-100 Black Hornet. Photo via Youtube

‘Pocket drones’: U.S. Army developing tiny spies for the next big war

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian soldiers stand near a tank at a former Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea, March 27, 2014. Russia last week completed the annexation of Crimea following a referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents voted to break off from Ukraine and join Russia. The vote, rejected by Ukraine and the West, was hastily called after Russian forces had overtaken the peninsula. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Evidence shows Russia firing artillery into Ukraine: Pentagon

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after a hearing in his court martial. A northeast Kansas judge will make a final determination Wednesday, April 23, 2014, on Manning’s request to change her name from Bradley Edward Manning to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. Manning is serving a 35-year sentence for giving reams of classified U.S. government information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Bradley Manning to begin gender treatment while in military custody

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

FILE - In this file image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan. Bergdahl was freed in a swap in which the U.S. freed five Taliban detainees, a diplomatic victory for the insurgent group. In a belt from Iraq to Pakistan, militants scored a series of successes the past weeks, a sign of their continued power 13 years into the U.S. "war on terrorism." (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video, File)

Bergdahl hires lawyer for military investigation

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

An air weapons team of two AH-64D Apaches from the 1st 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, 2007. (Image: U.S. Army) ** FILE **

Senate derails Army bid to take Guard’s Apache attack helicopters

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Bergdahl

Bergdahl returned to active duty

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times