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• REPORT: Gates: NATO Must Share Cost Of Raising Afghan Army (hosted.ap.org)
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday at the conclusion of a NATO meeting he notified the allies that they will be expected to share the cost of a planned expansion of the Afghan national army....
• REPORT: Phone Call Provider Takes AT&T, AAFES To Task (marinecorpstimes.com)
  The executive director of a nonprofit organization honored for its efforts to provide 1 million free minutes of phone calls for troops in the war zone used the ceremony at which he was feted to take on the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and AT&T....
• REPORT: Officials Report Reason For Increases In Motorcycle Crashes (nctimes.com)
  In the weeks since announcing a record number of motorcycle deaths involving Marines, military officials say they've figured out what caused most of the crashes....
• INTERVIEW: Accomplishing The Mission In Iraq (frontpagemagazine.com)
  Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bing West, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs under President Ronald Reagan....
• FEATURE: Anatomy Of A Marine: The Joel England Story (edmondsun.com)
  Sitting at his desk in a classroom on the University of Central Oklahoma campus, Joel England looks like your average college student....
• FEATURE: "Servant Leader" Is Buried at Arlington (washingtonpost.com)
  Marine Corps Capt Jesse Melton III was remembered as a man of faith and devotion who would have taken a bullet for his fellow Marines and who helped others and worked for the greater good....
• COLUMN: Heavy Machinery Protects Marines (ocregister.com)
  A lot of Marines here don't have much good to say about MRAPs. In fact, perhaps the best you can say about MRAPs is that they help keep Marines alive to complain about them....