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		<title>Close Call: Do We Trade Terrorists for Troops?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I wrote about the only American service member (at the time) to be missing in action (MIA) in Iraq.  Since then, Staff Sergeant Ahmed Kousay Altaie’s remains have been found and repatriated to the United States, thereby closing a disturbing and emotionally charged chapter of the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, a separate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74237&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD&#8230;And Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bingham C. Jamison, CFA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army removed Colonel Dallas Homas, commander of Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state, on Tuesday from his post because of an investigation into whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses were reversed solely to reduce medical costs on his watch. An ombudsman’s investigation last fall shows that officials from Madigan’s forensic psychiatry team &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=67302&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Daughter&#8217;s Plea: &#8220;Daddy, Please Don&#8217;t Leave&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bingham C. Jamison, CFA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was sitting in my office when my 3-year-old daughter came running in.  She was sobbing, unable to catch her breath or tell me what was wrong.  Her face flush, with red circles emanating from her swollen eyes, she was inconsolable.  In tow came my wife, somber-faced and also on the verge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=66063&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting for Our MIAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bingham C. Jamison, CFA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote about the last American service member killed as the U.S. pulled its final troops out of Iraq. Since then, I’ve been haunted by one fact that is sadly overlooked by the media (and even by the Commander in Chief in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night): [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=64925&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying to Withdraw&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bingham C. Jamison, CFA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 14th, two weeks before he was supposed to go home, Spc. David Emanuel Hickman became the last American service member to be killed in Iraq.  While on a regular “presence patrol” in Baghdad, his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED), the signature weapon of the war in Iraq. News of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=63392&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Super Committee: Failure at Any Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bingham C. Jamison, CFA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It comes as no surprise that the bicameral and bipartisan super committee &#8212; that 12-person debt panel charged with finding  $1.2 trillion in deficit savings over the next 10 years &#8212; failed in its mandate.  Its members&#8217; inability to reach a compromise has triggered an automatic $600 billion in defense cuts (set to begin in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=62217&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining Patriotism: Reflecting on the Past Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an era where yellow “Support the Troops” magnets adorn every other vehicle on the road and where rubber bracelets (color-coded for the cause célèbre) serve more as accessories than symbols of true compassion, I find myself wondering what we have learned as a nation during a decade of war.  As the tenth anniversary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56578&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Gift of Desperation&#8221;: A Marine Reflects on Combat and bin Laden, Who Put Him There</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 15:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the honor graduates from our Officer Candidates School (OCS) class, I accepted my award from the Commanding General with a crisp salute. My transformation from a frat boy trolling Rugby Road at The University of Virginia to a man deemed worthy to lead Marines was finally complete. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=50084&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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