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  • Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed President Barack Obama of the latest sexual assault allegations against a soldier who was assigned to prevent such crimes.
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  • Roger Muchnick
  • A Philadelphia man said his grandson was one of the seven Marines killed in a training exercise explosion in Nevada.
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  • A mortar shell explosion killed at least seven Marines and injured several more during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the use of the weapons until an investigation can determine their safety, officials said Tuesday.
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  • A soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bombing in Iraq says he's looking forward to driving and swimming with new arms.
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  • Iraq war veteran Brendan Marrocco underwent rare double-arm transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center
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  • Seattle police worked with Army officials Monday to track down the history of a nonfunctional missile launcher that showed up at a weapons buyback program and determine whether it was legal or possibly stolen from the military.
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  • An airman with what was called the Army Air Corps when his plane crashed in 1946 was finally laid to rest back home in South Jersey Thursday.
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  • 6abc Holiday Troop Greetings
  • See all of the holiday greetings from men and women in the U.S. military that will air on 6abc during the holiday season!
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  • Saturday is the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia, but this time honored tradition begins before the kick-off.
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  • The Delaware National Guard is sending 120 troops to New York City to assist with recovery efforts following Superstorm Sandy.
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  • A local veteran has another milestone to add to already illustrious life story.
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  • Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills had been a lot of places since losing his four limbs in Afghanistan. The one place he hadn't been was where people knew him best.
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  • An Army brigadier general who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with several female subordinates, two U.S. defense officials said Wednesday.
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  • Afghans shout anti-U.S. slogans in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 during a protest against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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  • An Afghan police officer turned his gun on NATO troops at a remote checkpoint in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday, killing four American service members, according to Afghan and international officials.
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  • A man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed an international service member on Sunday, NATO said, raising the death toll to 10 in such attacks in the space of just two weeks.
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  • The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson's Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant's neck and left him without use of his legs. It also cast doubt on his ability to father a child.
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  • 3 US troops killed by man in Afghan army uniform
  • An Afghan police officer shot and killed three U.S. Marines after sharing a meal with them before dawn Friday.
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  • 3 US troops killed by man in Afghan army uniform
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  • President Barack Obama called the parents of an American prisoner of war to assure them that he and the U.S. Department of Defense were doing everything in their power to free Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl three years after his capture in Afghanistan.
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  • Action News
  • Officials say one soldier was shot and killed and two others wounded at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
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  • Action News
  • A military veteran in Southern California is accused of falsely claiming he was wounded in Vietnam in order to get nearly $60,000 in benefits.
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  • Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed 11 al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen on Saturday, Yemeni military officials said.
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  • A federal judge on Friday rejected a defense motion to throw out a confession from the soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops.
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  • The U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in an Afghanistan shooting rampage.
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  • WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. investigators believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill again, two American officials said Saturday.
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  • Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is expected to be told Friday he faces 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, along with other charges, in connection with a shooting rampage in two southern Afghanistan villages that shocked Americans back home and further roiled U.S.-Afghan relations.
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  • Action News
  • A senior U.S. official says the soldier accused in the killing of 16 Afghan civilians is Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
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  • Action News
  • He is the suspect without a name, his identity as shadowed now as the night the Army says he slipped into a pair of slumbering Afghan villages and slaughtered 16 civilians whose safety was his assigned mission.
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  • Action News
  • The U.S. soldier suspected of gunning down at least 16 Afghan civilians was from a Washington state-based Stryker brigade and was assigned to a village stability program less than six weeks ago, a congressional source told The Associated Press on Monday.
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  • A U.S. soldier killed during protests in Afghanistan had talked with relatives about the backlash over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base shortly before he died.
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  • Action News
  • Members of Congress are pressing for hearings on the military's efforts to prevent hazing in the ranks. For one lawmaker, the issue is highly personal.
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  • Some servicemen received honors in Moorestown, New Jersey that were long overdue.
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  • There have been a number of holiday homecomings in recent week. Many American soldiers have been re-united with their families.
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  • Action News
  • Even before the Army sent him to Afghanistan, supporters say, Pvt. Daniel Chen was fighting a personal war.
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  • A young boy gets the surprise of his life as his father comes home from Iraq. It was a gift better than any toy.
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  • Eight U.S. soldiers have been charged in the death of a fellow GI, a Chinese-American who apparently shot himself in Afghanistan after being subjected to what a community activist said were assaults and ethnic taunts from his comrades.
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  • Bradley Manning
  • Lawyers for the Army intelligence analyst blamed for the biggest national security leak in American history briskly presented the entirety of his defense Wednesday, a year-and-half after the young private allegedly handed a trove of classified data to WikiLeaks.
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  • Military prosecutors and defense lawyers tangled Monday over digital evidence against an Army intelligence analyst charged with massively leaking secret U.S. data to WikiLeaks, while his supporters fumed that the public was shut out as the hearing dealt with classified but widely publicized information.
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  • The soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division said they were glad to be home before the holidays - and relieved to be out of Iraq.
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  • The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, in a burst of joy and relief.
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  • President Barack Obama heralded the end of the Iraq war Monday, but warned that the United States would remain a major player in the region.
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  • When it comes to beating Army, Navy is a perfect 10.
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