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		<title>Alaskan Native Corporations Trump Small Businesses Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Native Alaskan-owned companies have greatly benefited from defense contracting. To help the native peoples of Alaska, Alaskan Native Corporations, or ANCs, can receive federal contracts without competition.
Cha-ching. You, too, can be an Alaskan Native Corporation.
In 2008, a contract was awarded to a company that a year earlier had been three people in the founder’s Delaware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/12/alaskan-native-corporations-trump-small-businesses-again/</link>
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		<title>Suicide Obsession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those obsessed with the rate of military suicides, here’s an interesting statistic: Army National Guard soldiers in a civilian status are killing themselves at twice the rate they did in 2009.
Who knew? Who tracks this?
USA Today reports, “Eighty-six non-active-duty Guard soldiers have killed themselves in the first 10 months of 2010, compared with 48 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/12/suicide-obsession/</link>
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		<title>Marine Commander Loses Son to Fight in Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Robert M. Kelly was killed by a roadside bomb Nov. 10.  Kelly was the son of Lt. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine Forces Reserve chief, whose interview appears in the August issue of Military Officer magazine. Before taking the reins of the reserve force, John Kelly was the top Marine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/marine-commander-loses-son-to-fight-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>Terror Trials and U.S. Courts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terror suspect Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was found guilty of conspiracy by a New York jury for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. He was found innocent of the more than 280 charges also thrown at him. (280!). While I have no dog in this fight, it is interesting to watch this legal experiment unfold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/terror-trials-and-u-s-courts/</link>
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		<title>Tanks to Afghanistan: The Killing Fields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It had seemed the tanker’s last hurrah was Desert Storm, but the Bagdad Blitzkrieg presented yet another opportunity to roll, baby roll. Well the tank is back, and this pachyderm of battle is en route to Afghanistan.
In an uber-step away from stereotyped counterinsurgency, military forces accept it may take an all-out hardware effort against an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/tanks-to-afghanistan-the-killing-fields/</link>
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		<title>Weekend Wanderings: New York City</title>
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There is an Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square. Built like an above-ground bunker, this baby is home to a recruiter from each of the four armed services. It is cramped inside and looks more like speed-dating venue. I don’t even think there is a bathroom. But what trip to the Big Apple could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/weekend-wanderings-new-york-city/</link>
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		<title>Arms Sales Loom Large Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Afghan President (for life) Hamid Karzai remaining mum about who’s pocket he’s in, the U.S. has turned its attention to a $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Lawmakers have said a weapons sale of this size is crucial to Saudi’s national security. This sale, though large, carries many of the usual requirements. Lawmakers are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/arms-sales-loom-large-abroad/</link>
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		<title>Medal of Honor: And then there were 87</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Guinta received the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony Nov. 16. He is the first living recipient since Vietnam.
CBS’s talk-magazine 60 Minutes aired a wonderful interview with Guinta and several of his comrades, now three years after the action that garnered him top military honors.
They explained what happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/medal-of-honor-and-then-there-were-87/</link>
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		<title>A MEU Commander’s Birthday E-mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it’s November 10, it must be the birthday of the United States Marine Corps, truly one of the most contrived, over-hyped yet effective dates in modern military history.
Today I had birthday e-mails awaiting me and my mug of very dark roast.
Bleary-eyed I saw one was from Naval Academy classmate and commander of 26th Marine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/a-meu-commander%e2%80%99s-birthday-e-mail/</link>
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		<title>Muzzle-to-Muzzle: Women’s Veiled Combat Role</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the hand-wringing over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” an issue that potentially affects half the U.S. population seems forgotten. While discussions of women in combat seem passé, a number of laws and policies remain hampering their participation in a crucial role in which they have long been engaged.
Services like the Marine Corps are able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://moaablogs.org/inside/2010/11/muzzle-to-muzzle-women%e2%80%99s-veiled-combat-role/</link>
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