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• Navy identifies SEAL killed in Arizona training accident
• Navy IDs SEAL killed in Ariz. parachuting accident
• Syrian rebels enter strategic Aleppo neighborhood
• Veterans fight changes to disability payments
• ON CONNECTIONS, PERHAPS COINCIDENCE?
• U.S. B-2 bombers sent to Korea on rare mission: diplomacy not destruction
• NICWA's Terry Cross: In Defense of Dusten Brown

Navy identifies SEAL killed in Arizona training accident Posted: 30 Mar 2013 03:09 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Saturday identified the elite Navy SEAL who died in a parachute training accident in southern Arizona that also injured another SEAL. Navy officials said Special Warfare Operator Chief Brett Shadle, 31, of Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, was killed in the free-fall training accident near Pinal Airpark, northeast of Tucson, on Thursday. Shadle was assigned to an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit, the Navy said in a statement. The second SEAL, who has not been identified, remains hospitalized in stable condition. ...

Navy IDs SEAL killed in Ariz. parachuting accident Posted: 30 Mar 2013 02:49 PM PDT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Brett D. Shadle always had wanted to be a member of the Navy's most elite special forces unit. A year after enlisting, he made it happen and went on to become a highly decorated member of the Navy's famed SEAL Team 6.

Syrian rebels enter strategic Aleppo neighborhood Posted: 30 Mar 2013 01:54 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels pushed into a strategic neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of heavy clashes, seizing control of at least part of the hilltop district and killing a pro-government cleric captured in the fighting, activists and state media said Saturday.

Veterans fight changes to disability payments Posted: 30 Mar 2013 08:00 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans groups are rallying to fight any proposal to change disability payments as the federal government attempts to address its long-term debt problem. They say they've sacrificed already.

ON CONNECTIONS, PERHAPS COINCIDENCE? Posted: 29 Mar 2013 10:00 PM PDT In olden times, when people wrote on paper and employed postage stamps, letters created unlikely connections.The most remarkable set of correspondence in American history was surely the letters between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson after the two men left the White House.In England, there were the letters, written sometimes during Cabinet meetings, sometimes three times a day, between H.H. Asquith, who became prime minister of Great Britain in 1908, and Venetia Stanley, a London socialite. ...

U.S. B-2 bombers sent to Korea on rare mission: diplomacy not destruction Posted: 29 Mar 2013 09:40 PM PDT By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The stealthy, nuclear-capable U.S. B-2 bomber is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Libya, but it isn't usually a tool of Washington's statecraft. Yet on Thursday, the United States sent a pair of the bat-winged planes on a first-of-its-kind practice run over the skies of South Korea, conducting what U.S. officials say was a diplomatic sortie. The aim, the officials said, was two-fold: to reassure U.S. allies South Korea and Japan in the face of a string of threats from North Korea, and to nudge Pyongyang back to nuclear talks. ...

NICWA's Terry Cross: In Defense of Dusten Brown Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:33 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore., March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Terry Cross, the executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, released the following op-ed."He opted to look the other way. He should be absolutely ashamed of his character.""He doesn't really care about the child."                    —Anonymous comments on media coverage of Adoptive Couple v. Baby GirlAt the heart of the case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is the story of a father who desperately wants to raise his daughter. ...

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