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Kristina Wong was a national security reporter for The Washington Times.

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

Pentagon sets schedule for civilian furloughs

The Defense Department has issued a schedule for how it will manage furloughs of its nearly 800,000 civilian workers, as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to implement automatic spending cuts that began March 1.

March 18, 2013
A Standard Missile-3 interceptor, like this one launched from a Navy Aegis cruiser, hit a medium-range target missile over the Pacific on Tuesday. (U.S. Navy photograph)

U.S. to increase missile defenses

The Pentagon will increase its missile defenses over the next few years to address potential threats from Iran and North Korea's progress in developing long-range missile capabilities, Pentagon officials said Friday.

March 15, 2013
Two U.S. Marines fill out research consent forms before taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., on Sept. 29, 2009. The U.S. government is testing hundreds of Marines and soldiers before they ship out, in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Army: Health care for PTSD troops to suffer under budget cuts

The Army is worried about losing its civilian behavioral health care providers — who help troops deal with post traumatic stress disorder and other maladies — if they are forced to take 22 days of unpaid leave this year, an Army official said Tuesday.

March 12, 2013
Jessica Allen Jessica Allen takes care of her wounded husband, Chaz, while also tending to their children and earning a living as a tax preparer. “You feel like you’re out in the middle of the ocean, and you feel like you’re treading water. It’s exhausting, I’m not going to lie,” she said.

Caregivers do heavy duty on the homefront

Jessica Allen has slept about six hours since Monday. With tax season weighing upon her, the 34-year-old tax preparer home-schools her two young daughters while providing full-time care for her husband — a former soldier who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2011.

March 7, 2013