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'They should have started months ago.'

Janis Shinwari is credited with saving the lives of five U.S. service members during his eight years serving as an interpreter.

“I always say gunships are a team sport; you really can’t do something like this without a great team."

"[T]hey didn’t do the bare minimum of at least making sure there were MREs there."

Milley has at least seven more combat deployments than Tucker Carlson.

"What CCTs do is they stitch everything together, and they determine whether everyone on the battlefield lives or dies."

"A soldier's gender identity will no longer be a basis for involuntary separation."

Politics or life-saving necessity?

About 18,000 Afghans have applied for visas.

“Overall, we received a lot of shocked responses from service members on social media."

The fee for active duty 2nd Lieutenants: $1,200.

"The men are lovely on this Air Force base."

'I think that’s a spurious conversation.'

"I believe that we can trust them to read books like that and draw reasonable conclusions."

"The only advice I think I gave him was to do the very best that he could and then to do a little more."

“You can’t sit back and rely on the military to give you a solid flow of new trained pilots.”

Slow dancing in a Russian arms export scheme

'Poor anger management skills'

"This is a leadership issue. We will lead."

Spc. Maura Spence Carroll isn't your average intelligence analyst.