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About The Pentagon
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The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself. Full Article
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The Pentagon's Defense Comptroller Robert Hale listens to testimony during the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee on the fiscal year 2010 defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 20, 2009.
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The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One, with President Barack Obama on board, shortly after taking off from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates(L) and Chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen hold a press conference in the briefing room of the Pentagon in Washington, DC November 19, 2009, speaking about the shooting at Fort Hood.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen answers questions from reporters during news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates holds a press conference in the briefing room of the Pentagon in Washington, DC November 19, 2009, speaking about the shooting at Fort Hood.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes questions from reporters during a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes questions from reporters during a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (R) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen hold a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen hold a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen take questions from reporters during news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen take questions from reporters during news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates(L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare to speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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This undated photo released by Fort Riley shows Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Zorn. The Pentagon says that Staff Sgt. Zorn of Upton, Wyo. , died Monday when the vehicle he was in rolled over near Tal Afar.
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ADDS ID OF MAN IN PHOTO- A woman holds a photograph of pilot Charles Burlingame, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon, as Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight on Capitol H...
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US Army General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff, briefs the media on the current state of the Army's Suicide Prevention efforts, discussing ongoing initiatives and programs on November 17, 2009, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
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US Army General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff, briefs the media on the current state of the Army's Suicide Prevention efforts, discussing ongoing initiatives and programs on November 17, 2009, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
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Frank Pollack, president and chief executive officer of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee hearing on the Fairness and Accountability in Receiving Overdraft Coverage Act, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Wa...
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The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One, with President Barack Obama on board, shortly after taking off from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
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The Pentagon authorized five girls to come to Iraq ... so I called Heather and she said she had no idea there was going to be a Hooters tour to Iraq
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According to new statistics released by the Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander in chief, there has been a 23% increase in the number of ‘Private Security Contractors’ working for the Department of Defense in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a 29% increase in Afghanistan….
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If it's true that the Bush administration sat on these troop requests for eight months, is the White House suggesting that the Pentagon was incompetent or negligent or both? That would be a good question to put to the defense secretary--and President Obama is in a position to make him talk.
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In a letter to the Pentagon, Northrop Grumman's CEO Wes Bush has said that it cannot submit a bid for the KC-X Program, and thus will be forced to drop out of contention for the Air Force tanker
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most infamous party crashers in the world said Tuesday that they hate that label, denied they finagled their way into a White House state dinner and insisted that they were invited to the bash by a Washington law firm with ties to a senior Pentagon official.
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shaped the debate over the 2007 troop surge in Iraq: Military commanders and top Pentagon civilians pushed the book ardently on surge skeptics, winning important converts.
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What is especially ironic, to say nothing of infuriating, about the SEALs’ inquisition is that it underscores the utter lack of curiosity exhibited by the Pentagon in the matter of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army shrink and Islamist.
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It's clearly an escalation. And when the president's talking about 'finish the job,' the president should be aware that the jobs that people are worried about in the United States are getting people back to work ... It's not defensible. It's not connected to our national security. And it really raises q...
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On Sept. 11, 2001 our nation was attacked by a savage gang of terrorists whose intent was to kill innocent Americans and bring ruin to the United States ... The devastation they caused in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon was an act of war.
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Also last week, the Pentagon endorsed two other possible defensive arms sales for Chile's army. The first purchase would include six new Sentinel radar systems and six SINCGARS radio systems, at a cost of US$65 million. The second deal could include 36 Avenger planes and 390 ground-to-air missiles at a ...
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The Pentagon on Thursday [November 5] advised the U.S. Congress of the possible sale of stinger missiles worth about $455 million, AIM medium-range missiles worth $145 million and Sentinel radar systems worth $65 million.
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he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Cyber-defenders know what to prepare themselves for because the United States has used the kinds of weapons that now target the Pentagon, federal agencies, and American corporations
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The recent attack on the military base in Texas warns that if the occupation policy of the American rulers continues in this way, without them folding the carpets of occupation and transgression in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is natural then that incidents and attacks similar to Texas will spread to the Pe...
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Later in their meeting ... (Atta) told her he wanted to buy an aerial picture of Washington that hung in her office. He pulled out a wad of cash and threw money on her desk, even after she said she would not sell it. He asked about the White House and Pentagon, and she pointed them out.
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It is an honor for me to be in Marietta to pick up the seventh C-130J going to Ramstein. It represents the cumulative efforts of teams of people here in Marietta, the United States Air Force, the Pentagon and the folks at Ramstein who are supporting our missions around the globe ... There is no other ai...
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You are fighting a much smarter battle than we did in Vietnam. Our Army can take a mortar round ... and literally put it in the enemy's back pocket. ... But then I have another opinion. ... I wonder if possibly the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, is not overprotecting the medal. I do wonder that.
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Washington's political leadership, like the Pentagon, now accepts that the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan is best tackled with contact between the Pakistan armed forces and the Taliban, and not by the political governments of the region.
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Television, the Internet, Wall Street. The Pentagon could not fight wars, you couldn't get online, Wall Street could not make transactions without satellites.
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We will not go with the name of that man until the United States Pentagon confirms it because to be wrong on something like this is something you cannot take back ... When the Pentagon confirms it, we will tell you everything we know about him. To do otherwise would be irresponsible, and we’re not going...
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We will not go with the name of that man until the United States Pentagon confirms it because to be wrong on something like this is something you cannot take back ... When the Pentagon confirms it, we will tell you everything we know about him. To do otherwise would be irresponsible, and we’re not going...
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It looks likes a cross between a Humvee and a monster truck, and Pentagon officials hope it can save the lives of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is rushing the M-ATV, the latest version of the U.S. military’s blast-resistant vehicles, to Afghanistan as roadside bombs take a heavy toll on U.S. ...
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The list of things that Pentagon public affairs participated in during the run-up [to the Iraq war] and immediately after the invasion are horrendous
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