U.S. suffers first death in new armored truck
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The U.S. military has suffered a first fatality in one of a new fleet of heavily armored vehicles designed to protect soldiers from roadside bombs, the military said on Tuesday.
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Four American soldiers were killed when their vehicle was blasted by a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military command said Monday.
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A Pentagon spending spree aims to replace the vulnerable Humvee with more than 6,000 mine-resistant ambush-protection vehicles, or MRAPs, just as a stopgap. Then comes a different bruiser in 2012. In Danger Room.
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A new combat truck with a V-shaped bottom designed to withstand blasts from roadside bombs is performing with such success in Iraq that the U.S. military is pressing a Wisconsin company and others to churn out hundreds more in the coming months.
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One US soldier was killed and three injured in a traffic accident outside Kuwait City on Sunday, the US military said in a statement.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they invaded the country 22 months ago.
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At least 37 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives blew up after crashing into a pickup truck and catching fire.
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the weekend and confirmed that the six Americans aboard all died, the US military said. crashed in Bamiyan province on Saturday, said US military spokesman Major Mark McCann.
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The Army's new medium-weight armored vehicle, the Stryker, weighs so much that it curtails the range of C-130 military cargo aircraft that carry it and under certain conditions make it impossible for the planes to take off, a new report for Congress found.
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A soldier killed over the weekend south of Baghdad was the first American casualty in a roadside bomb attack on a newly introduced, heavily armored vehicle, a military spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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A U.S. soldier died from a gunshot  wound received on Tuesday during a convoy mission south of  Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.
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A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said.
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An Iraqi bus collided with a U.S. tank that was on patrol Friday, killing six of the bus passengers and injuring eight, the U.S. military said.
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U.S. soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck that failed to stop at a checkpoint in central Ghazni province, killing a man and two women and critically injuring two other people, the military said Sunday.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops were reported  killed in a helicopter crash and five more died in insurgent  attacks Wednesday in the deadliest day for American forces  since they invaded Iraq 22 months ago.
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The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces at Camp Anaconda, the huge air base north of Baghdad, shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver.
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Seven U.S. soldiers were killed  Thursday when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an explosive  device on a road in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military  said in a statement.