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Two senators on Friday urged the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs to put more focus on researching a possible link between breast cancer and exposure to toxic burn pits.

Feb. 21—Now you see them. Now you don't. A military camouflage uniform testing exercise held at Tobyhanna Army Depot last month will help ensure service members remain safe when engaged in future battles. The facility in Monroe County was selected as a data collection site by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after its analysis discovered the area's terrain closely resembles potential combat ...

>> right. we talked, yeah, we talked about him going in the air force. i talked about him going into the air force. he said he didnt think thats what he wanted to do. he was, quite frankly i think a fellow that wanted to defend our country. he wanted to be involved actively in that and i think he thought the army offered him that best opportunity to do it. and, as you can see from his short career, he was in 13 years and had four separate combat environments, if you want to count haiti as one al...

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