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Lolita Baldor
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National Security/Pentagon Reporter with The Associated Press in D.C.; Granite State/Lakes Region native; Proud Michigan State Spartan; Go Sox! Go Pats!
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    Lolita Baldor
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    Mar 7, 2022
    Pentagon will shut down Red Hill fuel facility:
    FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Rear Adm. John Korka, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), and Chief of Civil Engineers, leads Navy and civilian water quality recovery experts through the tunnels of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Native Hawaiians who revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of a Hawaiian god say...
    Pentagon to shut down leaking fuel tank facility in Hawaii
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Mar 5, 2022
    Ukrainian drone enthusiasts sign up to repel Russian forces (from @AP)
    This 2022 aerial image provided by Ukrainian security forces, taken by a drone and shown on a screen, shows a blown-up building near the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The exact date and time of the image are unknown. In better times, Ukrainian drone enthusiasts flew their gadgets into the sky to photograph weddings, fertilize soybean fields or race other drones for fun. Now some are risking their lives by forming a...
    Ukrainian drone enthusiasts sign up to repel Russian forces
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Dec 20, 2022
    FILE - Patriot missiles are seen at the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, March 25, 2022, in Jasionka, Poland. The U.S. will send $1.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine in a massive package that will for the first time include a Patriot missile battery and precision guided bombs for their fighter jets, U.S. officials said Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, as the Biden administration prepares to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
    US to send $1.8 billion in aid, Patriot battery, to Ukraine
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    Lolita Baldor
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    Apr 5, 2025
    The list of books removed from the Naval Academy: link in the story. Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge apnews.com/article/navy-d…
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Nov 12, 2020
    Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley speaks with Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, before a Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony led by President Trump at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
    Military wary that shakeup could upend its apolitical nature
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Aug 12, 2023
    The Pentagon plans to shake up DC’s National Guard, criticized for its response to protests, Jan. 6 (from @AP)
    FILE - A member of the District of Columbia National Guard looks out from a vehicle driving on West Executive Avenue at the White House, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington, as demonstrators protest over the death of George Floyd nearby. U.S. officials say the Pentagon is developing plans to restructure the National Guard in Washington, D.C. The goal is to address problems highlighted by the chaotic response to the...
    The Pentagon plans to shake up DC’s National Guard, criticized for its response to protests, Jan. 6
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    Lolita Baldor
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    Sep 24, 2021
    Milley: US should explore more military talks with Russia (from @AP) apnews.com/article/68b3de…
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Mar 3, 2022
    Sharing some of the work that our amazing journalists in Ukraine are doing under terrifying and difficult circumstances
    Andrey Goncharuk, 68, a member of territorial defense wipes his face in the backyard of a house that was damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
    AP PHOTOS: Day 7, Ukrainians feeling weight of war
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Apr 3, 2018
    Trump says "we're going to be guarding our border with the military." Pentagon struggling to explain or clarify. National Guard has done it under 2 previous presidents, but unclear what Trump means to do this time.
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    May 6, 2019
    Sources: U.S. ordered USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to move from the Mediterranean to the Middle East about two weeks ahead of schedule. The accelerated move forced cancellation of a planned port visit in Croatia
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Oct 26, 2018
    My video of the Iranian fast boat moving in front of the USS Essex today in the Persian Gulf — and a US helo for added measure.
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Feb 4, 2020
    US general slips into Iraq for talks to salvage relations (from @AP) apnews.com/82f2418df55b82…
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Jan 16, 2023
    Milley makes first visit to see Ukraine troops in new training. Top US general visits training site for Ukrainian soldiers (from @AP) apnews.com/article/0f6a62…
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    Lolita Baldor
    @lbaldor
    Jun 2, 2019
    Pentagon tells White House to stop politicizing military (from @AP) apnews.com/3dba0b327e8e45…