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FILE - In this May 1, 2014 file photo, Nate Galbreath, Senior Executive Adviser for the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), leaves a news conference at the Pentagon. Shocked and offended by explicit questions, some U.S. servicemen and women are complaining about a new sexual-assault survey that hundreds of thousands were asked to complete. The survey is conducted every two years, but this year&#8217;s version, developed by the Rand Corp., includes three pages of questions that detail numerous sexual acts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Military personnel livid over graphic sexual-assault survey

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 1, 2014 file photo, Nate Galbreath, Senior Executive Adviser for the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), leaves a news conference at the Pentagon. Shocked and offended by explicit questions, some U.S. servicemen and women are complaining about a new sexual-assault survey that hundreds of thousands were asked to complete. The survey is conducted every two years, but this year’s version, developed by the Rand Corp., includes three pages of questions that detail numerous sexual acts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

AP EXCLUSIVE: Military sex survey draws complaints

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, is taking to task those veterans who are abusing the government benefits system. He said veterans' benefit programs need to be streamlined to avoid duplicate payments. (Associated Press)

Veterans caught triple-dipping on benefits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

People watch smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rising outside Kobani, Syria, from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Islamic State airstrikes in Syria spur White House infighting over Assad benefit

The Washington Times

Illustration on conflicting direction over military quarantine by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

BABBIN: Joint Chiefs wiser than commander in chief on Ebola quarantine

By Jed Babbin

People watch smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rising outside Kobani, Syria, from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Hagel: Assad benefiting from U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

China-Taiwan Submarine Power Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Inside the Ring: Taiwan submarine plan sinks as Pentagon yields to China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Ebola scare at the Pentagon. The Pentagon closed one entrance and parts of a parking lot on Friday after a woman began vomiting. Maggie Ybarra / The Washington Times

U.S. general, troops quarantined in Italy after West Africa deployment

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

CDC Director Tom Frieden (Associated Press)

CDC unveils a four-tier Ebola risk scale to help local authorities

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Marines and sailors from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, head for a Marine Medium Tiltorotor Squadron 365 MV-22 Osprey at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Image: U.S. Marine Corps) ** FILE **

Marine Lance Cpl. Sean P. Neal dies during Inherent Resolve deployment to Baghdad

Associated Press

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington in this June 4, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

John McCain: Pentagon press secretary is an ‘idiot’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Eighty members of Congress have asked that a federal policy that bans gay and bisexual men from donating blood be changed by the end of the year. (Photo courtesy of Department of Defense 2014)

Pentagon emergency blood system for soldiers broken for 13 years: OIG report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Image: YouTube, University of Minnesota

Pentagon seeks to perfect technology behind mind-controlled drones

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Swedish corvette HMS Stockholm patrols Jungfrufjarden in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Sweden's biggest submarine hunt since the dying days of the Soviet Union has put countries around the Baltic Sea on edge, with Latvia's foreign minister calling the incident a potential "game changer" in the region. (AP Photo/TT News Agency, Anders Wiklund) SWEDEN OUT

Inside the Ring: B-52s buzz over Europe, and Swedes hunt for Russian sub

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa hearing on Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Afghanistan anti-corruption task force shuttered amid U.S. troop drawdown

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Pentagon: Ebola response team to be in place for ‘potential support’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Illustration of Charles Hagel by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

BABBIN: The Pentagon’s war on the global climate

By Jed Babbin

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos

Marines engage in tweeting war over TWT report on commandant

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Vomiting woman in Pentagon parking lot doesn’t have Ebola: officials

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, right, next to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, speaks to the media about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, with members of his team coordinating the government’s response to the Ebola outbreak. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama executive order authorizes Guard, reserve call-up for Ebola

Associated Press