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Members of the U.S. military and their families are now eligible for free passes to national parks and monuments as part of a program timed to celebrate Armed Forces Day on Saturday.
The number of active-duty troops hospitalized for mental disorders rose 19 percent in 2011, to 21,735, up from 18,250 in 2010, according to a Defense Department report.
A new command will be responsible for conducting high-level security near ports, providing protection for certain ships in coastal waterways and to sometimes take part in offensive combat.
"Catastrophic” mistakes, a Navy report concludes, sidelined the guided-missile submarine Georgia for three months when it should have deployed for operations against Libya in 2011.
The former commander of the destroyer USS Cowpens was fired earlier this year for having an adulterous affair, according to a Navy investigation report.
The Army is investigating Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, who has been reassigned from Afghanistan back to Fort Bragg. "This is a criminal investigation," said Fort Bragg spokesman Ben Abel.
“My instruction to my commanders is to get the [Afghans] into the fight,” he says. “The sooner I can get them there, while I still have the time and the combat power, the more I can catch them if they fall.”
Afghan commanders have refused more than a dozen times within the past two months to act on U.S. intelligence regarding high-level insurgents, arguing that night-time operations would result in civilian casualties.