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Iran says it recovers information from U.S.
sailors’ devices
Iran has retrieved thousands of pages of infor-
mation from devices used by U.S. Navy sailors
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try’s state television reported March 15.
The report quotes Gen. Ali Razmjou, a na-
val commander in the powerful Revolutionary
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13,000 pages was retrieved from laptops, GPS
devices and maps.
He said the move falls within Iran’s rights
under international regulations, and that the in-
formation recovered could be used in “various
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age of the event, Razmjou added.
The U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet,
which is responsible for American naval forces
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The sailors, nine men and one woman, were
detained for less than a day in January after they
drifted into Iranian waters off Farsi Island, an
outpost in the middle of the Persian Gulf that
has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guard
speedboats since the 1980s. AP
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Marines alter women’s uniform policy to
cover more tattoos
The U.S. Marine Corps is making it easier for
women to cover up tattoos by allowing them to
wear crew-neck undershirts beneath their uni-
forms.
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its dress policy unintentionally discriminated
against female recruits. Men are allowed to wear
crew-neck T-shirts.
Last month, the Democrat from Maine urged
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the Marine Corps to amend its rules and accept
20-year-old Kennebunk resident Kate Pimental.
She has a tattoo just below her collarbone that
says, “Let your smile change the world but never
let the world change you.”
The Marine Corps has a strict policy on tat-
toos — especially visible tattoos. Recruits can
have no more than four tattoos, and they cannot
contain any vulgar, racist, sexist or anti-Ameri-
can words or images or references to drugs. Ad-
ditionally, sleeve tattoos that cover the arm are
prohibited, as are visible tattoos on the neck.
The altered dress code means Pimental can
now cover her tattoo, which she got shortly after
turning 18.
“There is nothing I want more than to be able
to serve as a Marine,” she said.
Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Ma-
rine Corps, said in letter to Pingree that changing
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Putin: Russian arms upgrade won’t be af-
fected by budget cuts
The Russian military’s arms moderniza-
tion program won’t be affected by budget cuts
prompted by the country’s economic problems,
President Vladimir Putin said March 11.
Putin, who spoke at a meeting with the top
military brass and leaders of arms industries, said
the military last year received hundreds of new
aircraft, missiles and armored vehicles as part of
an ambitious weapons upgrade.
He noted that the new Russian weapons have
proven their worth during Moscow’s air cam-
paign in Syria.
Putin said Russia’s arms industries have sig-
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According to CBS, Wounded Warrior Project substandard Army helmets
spends 40 to 50 percent of its money on overhead An Ohio-based company has agreed to pay
— including extravagant parties — while other $3 million to the federal government to settle a
veterans charities have overhead costs of 10 to lawsuit over combat helmets it provided to the
15 percent. The CBS report also talked to former U.S. Army that were found to be substandard.
employees who accused the organization of mak-
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military reserve 2006 to 2009, ArmorSource delivered advanced
combat helmets that were made and tested us-
ing methods that didn’t meet contract require-
thousands more people to join the military re- ments and failed to meet contract performance
serve to boost anti-terrorism and other defense standards.
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to increase the number of reservists from 28,000 an ArmorSource subcontractor. The pair will re-
today to 40,000 by 2018. The idea would be to
have 1,000 reservists available on any given day ceive $450,000 of the settlement.
able to deploy around the country. Messages left with ArmorSource and its at-
“More than ever, we need reservists to con- torney weren’t returned. AP
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