Washington Post – How Marines Feel About Their Gear.

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Virginian Pilot – The Navy established its second riverine warfare squadron at a ceremony Friday morning at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.
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Foreign Affairs – Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world’s poor and sick than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems — and unless the brain drain from the developing world can be stopped — poor countries could be pushed even further into trouble, in yet another tale of well-intended foreign meddling gone awry.
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