armed services
- n the military forces of a nation
- n a force that is a branch of the armed forces
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- Insiders: House Armed Services Committee Not as Powerful as in the Past
The House Armed Services Committee is not as powerful as it used to be, 86 percent of National Journal's National Security Insiders said.
June 13, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News - Inside The House Armed Services Committee
The House Armed Services Committee is responsible for authorizing an annual Defense Department budget of more than half a trillion dollars at a time when defense spending, for the first time in perhaps decades, is not treated across the political spectrum as sacrosanct. The result is that committee Chairman Buck McKeon and his defense-conscious colleagues are left to fend off—or at least try to ...
June 13, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News - Armed Services YMCA in Oak Harbor closing
Soon, the laughter and chatter of children will no longer fill the classrooms and the playground of Whidbey Island Armed Services YMCA. An estimated 3,000 children learned, played and made friends inside the old building in Oak Harbor over two decades.
June 13, 2013 - Whidbey News Times