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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, takes a question from Gunnery Sgt. Wilburn Jeffrey during a question and answer period with Marines at Camp Pendleton on Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014. Hagel announced the deployment of another 130 U.S. troops to Iraq in remarks to Marines at this Southern California base on the final stop of a weeklong, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)

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US says far fewer Iraqi refugees on Sinjar Mt.

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · August 14, 2014 2:24 am

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014, file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. Hagel is ordering military leaders to put a renewed emphasis on moral behavior across the force following a series of ethical lapses that have included cheating scandals among the Navy and Air Force's nuclear missions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Hagel orders urgent push for ethics crackdown

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · February 6, 2014 8:08 am

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014, file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. Hagel is ordering military leaders to put a renewed emphasis on moral behavior across the force following a series of ethical lapses that have included cheating scandals among the Navy and Air Force's nuclear missions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Hagel adds urgency to push for ethics crackdown

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · February 6, 2014 2:11 am

Air Force brass: Culture of fear led to cheating

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · January 31, 2014 9:00 am

Personnel problems in nuclear corps seen as issue

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · January 29, 2014 10:57 pm

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, right, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Richie, a 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron team trainer, riding in a work cage on Nov. 20, 2012, inside the T-9 maintenance trainer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification. It is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force.(AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Beau Wade)

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Cheating alleged in US nuclear missile force

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · January 16, 2014 6:09 pm

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, right, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Richie, a 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron team trainer, riding in a work cage on Nov. 20, 2012, inside the T-9 maintenance trainer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification. It is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force.(AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Beau Wade)

New nuke scandal: 34 officers accused of cheating

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · January 15, 2014 10:44 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, U.S. soldiers with stand guard as they watch the transfer ceremony of security responsibilities from NATO troops to Afghan security forces in Qalat, Zabul province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The debate over how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 comes down to risk. Leaving too few troops in place could stall progress for Afghan security forces. But keeping too many troops there might prolong Afghanistanâs dependence on the U.S. military and NATO. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)

Risk is at heart of debate on troop withdrawal

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · December 3, 2012 8:34 am

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