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They are the unseen heroes of the Navy, suiting up in dive gear nearly every day, making their way into deep dark waters and dangerous crevices.
The Navy says a SEAL from Virginia Beach has been killed in a battle with militants in Afghanistan.
Attacks on U.S. and allied forces with makeshift bombs in Afghanistan
are 50% more lethal than three years ago, reflecting insurgents' use of
more powerful explosives and the increased vulnerability of troops.
Specialist Chandra Miller had a unique experience in Iraq, she served alongside her sister, Lashawn, and her mother, Sgt. Marsha Reid.
The Veterans Affairs Department is taking steps for the first time to make it easier for veterans of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to get disability benefits for malaria, West Nile Virus and other diseases.
Spc. Steven Jesse Bishop of Christiansburg was assigned to the Army Reserve as a civil affairs soldier.
he military is trying to curb the volume of narcotics given to troops as
the number of prescriptions for painkillers and instances of drug abuse
continue to soar.
New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found
in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic
training regimen for the first time in three decades.
If the late Pat Tillman is remembered for his selflessness, then it seems fitting that the foundation created in the professional football star-turned-soldier's name would ask the same of the veterans it serves.
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