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Reports from Afghanistan, Iraq, &c. for . USMC vet. Fighting Illini. ASUCronkite CosaNostran. Award-losing beard. Tips: garland.chad@stripes.com

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2008.

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    BREAKING: The is preparing almost a dozen military installations around the country that could be used to house evacuees because of the . The bases, both reserve and active duty, are all located near major airports - including Atlanta, DFW, LA, SF, NY, etc.

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    A longtime member of our family. A fine Marine and profoundly good man. God speed, Marine.

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    You see this question less often now but it rears up now and again: "Why are they wasting precious ATGMs on useless targets like bulldozers?!" Setting aside the fact that an ATGM that kills your enemy or destroys his means to do war is almost always more valuable than the cost

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    And we’re continually pressuring it to employ an operational model that is beyond both its capability & will

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    Being a freelancer is often feast or famine. If you know one in journalism please treat them with some modicum of professional respect because think of all that you do in the newsroom and now imagine doing that, plus chasing invoices, on your own.

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  9. This is my life.

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  10. Pvt. Margaret Meyer, left, and twin sister Pvt. Annika Meyer, pictured at Hilton Field in Fort Jackson, S.C., on Jan. 30, enlisted and attended basic training together. Both train to become culinary specialists at Fort Lee, Va. (Army photo: Saskia Gabriel)

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    Eight months after the VA launched a new program to connect veterans with private-sector doctors, the agency doesn’t know how many appointments have been completed or how much it’s costing taxpayers.

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  12. A 1996 inspection of U.S. bases on the peninsula found asbestos in 200 buildings. Experts at the time said the buildings "might be contaminated with broken pieces of asbestos resulting in crushed, airborne fragments that can be deadly if inhaled."

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  13. Anyway, it's Black History Month, y'all, and maybe a good time to think about what that means to people like my older coworker who's seen progress toward equality in his lifetime -- though sometimes gradual & in the face of stubbornness on the part of powerful institutions.

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  14. He then digressed into telling me who Ed Sullivan was, telling me to look him up because apparently I look too young to know (shockingly), and talked about how Sullivan helped break down the color barrier on network TV.

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  15. He recalled nearly perfectly the main points of Carter's service and post-military life. He also said he remembered the press for "Men of Honor" and at the time told his wife he remembered seeing MCPO Carl Brashear on the Ed Sullivan Show.

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  16. This coworker (not a journalist) also recounted several stories of blacks being denied proper honors, such as SSgt. Edward A. Carter, who fought heroically in WWII, but didn't receive the Medal of Honor until the late 1990s--long after he'd died.

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  17. Bro could only attend N.C.'s A&T (a historically black university), but he joined AF ROTC after being recruited by 2 Tuskegee Airmen in the program. "And that's how my brother became a fighter pilot," my coworker said.

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  18. His mother didn't have the heart to tell him he couldn't be a pilot because of his skin color, though that's what she thought would hold him back. But more than a decade after WWII, fortunately, it was no longer the disqualification it may once have been.

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  19. This coworker's brother joined the Air Force 12 years after the Tuskegee Airmen and served under Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., USAF's first black 4-star, he said. In H.S., his brother told his mom he wanted to be a pilot; she said, "You can't fly." "Why?" "You're... different."

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  20. Yesterday, as I watched McGee speak at NASA HQ on a livestream, a black coworker and Army veteran stopped by and spoke to me, tearfully at one point, about the disappointment he felt that so many black Americans were deprived of their due for their service.

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  21. “At first I would say ‘wow,’ but looking back, it would have been nice to have had that during active duty, but it didn’t happen that way,” Brig. Gen. Charles McGee said Tuesday after the White House ceremony.

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