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    Veterans for a Strong America to the President: Heroes Don’t Spike the Football

    May 10, 2012

    President Obama has spiked the Bin Laden Football so hard that Navy SEALS, retired and active duty, are hammering him over his zealous efforts to take credit for their handiwork.

    In response to President Obama hiding behind our troops and taking credit for their actions [...]

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    America at Risk: Kerry Kachejian on the Importance of Military Readiness

    May 10, 2012

    May is Protect America Month at the Heritage Foundation. In addition to a series of events, Heritage is also releasing videos highlighting the importance of a strong national defense. The first one is below.

    Rebuilding Iraq during the raging insurgency was no easy task. It required ingenuity, courage and [...]

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    Heritage Foundation Launches Protect America Month

    May 10, 2012

    Over the past 20 years, administrations of both political parties have underfunded the military. Today, as the economy stalls and the government appears to be unable to control spending in other areas, defense spending is under attack again. Two decades of underinvestment and a decade of military conflict have left [...]

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    Military Crippling Sequester Must Be Stopped

    May 9, 2012

    By Reps. Buck McKeon and Paul Ryan
    Real Clear Politics

    Last year, as the federal government approached a limit on how much it could legally borrow, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp an increase in the government’s borrowing authority without any spending cuts to match.

    When House Republicans [...]

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    Defending Defense: Sequestration Must Be Stopped

    May 8, 2012

    America is nearing a decisive moment.  Unless Congress acts to change current law, automatic sequestration cuts will slash future spending on national defense across-the-board by over $500 billion beginning early next year.  Combined with the $487 billion in cuts already put forward by the President in February, America’s military will [...]

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    Chamber of Commerce Speaks out Against Sequestration

    May 7, 2012

    Today, R. Bruce Josten, Executive Vice-President for Government Affairs at the Chamber of Commerce issued letters to the members of both the House and Senate, as well as leadership of their respective Armed Services Committees expressing opposition to sequestration.  The letters outline the devastating impact these cuts would have on [...]

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    Humanitarian missions are worth fighting for

    April 25, 2012

    By Brigadier General Stephen Boone

    The Charlotte Observer

    April 24, 2012

    From Retired Brigadier General Stephen Boone, an Army doctor who commanded the 818th Hospital Center including all medical reserve units in the southeast United States. Boone lives in Raleigh.

    After 10 years of war and the worst economy in [...]

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    Sequestration Resource Kit

    April 19, 2012

    The House Armed Services Committee recently released a sequestration resource kit to help American citizens prepare for the potential impact.

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    Best Defense?

    April 16, 2012

    By: Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
    GovConExec Magazine
    4/12/12

    Pending budget cuts raise national security—and economic—concerns.

    Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned recently that the spending cuts the Pentagon is now absorbing will hit all 50 states. But many don’t understand how severely these cuts will be felt beyond [...]

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    Defense contractors brace for military spending cuts

    April 9, 2012

    By Emily Sachar
    Crain’s New York Business

    Robert Arrighi was already concerned about defense-budget cuts last summer when the Obama administration issued a stop-work order for the alternate engine for the F-35 joint strike fighter plane. Mr. Arrighi’s Long Island City, Queens, company, Kerns Manufacturing, was planning to work [...]

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