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President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2018,, as he heads to Camp David for the weekend. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump appoints Rear Adm. Fears as homeland security adviser

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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William McRaven: Whistleblower hostility may have cost admiral promotion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Navy SEALs in action. (U.S. Navy photo)

Navy SEALs’ switch to MMA training spurs fight over new commander

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FIghters from the Free Syrian Army, left, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), center, join forces to fight Islamic State group militants in Kobane, Syria, Nov. 19, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon: Syrian rebels to begin training to fight Islamic State as soon as March

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

U.S. army soldiers load equipments onto an aircraft, not seen, as they prepare to make the journey home at al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 1 , 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) **FILE**

Islamic State militants in Iraqi uniforms attack U.S. air base

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. A Somali intelligence official says Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, a leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab who has a $3 million bounty on his head, has surrendered to police in Somalia. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

U.S. military bombs senior leader of al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Oct. 24, 2014, file photo, members of the Department of Defense's Ebola Military Medical Support Team go through special training at San Antonio Military Medical Center in San Antonio. Even small clusters of Ebola cases could overwhelm parts of US medical care system, according to an Associated Press review of readiness at hospitals and other components of the emergency medical network (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Troops returning from Ebola mission heading for quarantine in Virginia

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the sixth annual &quot;Washington Ideas Forum&quot; in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. Hagel has approved a recommendation by military leaders that all U.S. troops returning from Ebola response missions in West Africa be kept in supervised isolation for 21 days. The move goes beyond precautions recommended by the Obama administration for civilians, although President Barack Obama has made clear he feels the military's situation is different from that of civilians, in part because troops are not in West Africa by choice. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Hagel OKs three-week quarantine for troops in Ebola fight

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby arrives for a briefing at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. The Pentagon says the leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group was the target of U.S. military airstrikes that struck an encampment and a vehicle Monday night. Kirby said the results of the strike are being assessed and he can't confirm if Somali Ahmed Abdi Godane, the rebel leader, was hit. He says the strike against Godane was conducted by special operations forces with manned and unmanned aircraft firing hellfire missiles and precision-guided munitions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. to train 5,000 Syrian rebels to fight militants

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

American journalist James Foley was killed by the Islamic State group Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon downplays role in destroying Islamic State: ‘It’s about defeating its ideology’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon taxies along the runway before it takes off from Perth Airport on route to rejoin the on-going search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Planes and ships hunting for the missing Malaysian jetliner zeroed in on a targeted patch of the Indian Ocean on Thursday, after a navy ship picked up underwater signals that are consistent with a plane's black box. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Pentagon accuses Chinese jet of ‘dangerous’ intercept in international airspace

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2005 file photo, Yazidi men enter a shrine at the top of Mount Sinjar, 250 miles (404 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 welcomed the U.S. airlift of emergency aid to thousands of people who fled to the mountains to escape Islamic extremists and called for greater intervention, as U.S. warplanes struck the militants for the first time. Cargo planes dropped parachuted crates of food and water over an area in the mountains outside Sinjar, where thousands of members of the Yazidi minority where sheltering, according to witnesses in the militant-held town, who asked not to be identified for security reasons.(AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg, File)

Military launches covert fact-finding mission on Yazidi mountain

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon to jettison property in Europe

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong initiated a discussion of kelp farming and its supposed ability to keep U.S. submarines from the Yellow Sea that was mocked in some quarters. The admiral is also a professor at China's National Defense University

Inside China: Army to restrict auto tags to curb fraud

By Miles Yu

Rabbi Alexander Goode died on the torpedoed USAT Dorchester in 1943. He and three other Army chaplains gave their life jackets to save others on board the sinking ship. A total of 14 chaplains will be honored at the Jewish Chaplains Memorial dedication ceremony on Monday at 1 p.m. in Arlington National Cemetery. (JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER WASHINGTON)

New memorial honors valor of Jewish chaplains

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

Navy carrier deploys without former commander

By Pauline Jelinek and Steve Szkotak - Associated Press

Oil well could be dead in days

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Allen: Blown-out Gulf well to be sealed by Sunday

By Harry R. Weber - Associated Press

Terror leader exposes network

Terror leader exposes network