Army Spun Tale Around Ill-Fated Mission
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The published account of Pat Tillman's last moments was a distorted and incomplete narrative, according to dozens of internal Army documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Spread across several tables in a vast warehouse here are the pieces of one soldier's life.
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Soldier's tumble experience at a base reflects the biggest challenges and stresses confronting the Guard and Reserve soldiers.
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A new documentary revisits perhaps the most horrifying "incident" in modern warfare
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A U.S. Army unit mistakenly launched a Patriot PAC-3 antiaircraft missile from an American base in the Persian Gulf country of Qatar, U.S. military officials said.
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The first bomb fatality in one of the U.S. Armyâs new armored vehicles has raised questions on its design.
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The timing, during a major U.S. offensive, seemed intended to demonstrate that insurgents could still strike with near impunity.
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The military has been working for years on a pain ray that heats up the skin, sending crowds running.  Wired News' Sharon Weinberger decides to find out what the screams are all about -- and gets zapped herself.
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QAIM, Iraq -- Word spread fast. It was Gunny. And the young kid, Nice. The news was passed in low voices, quiet conversations. No one wanted to say it loudly. The Marines heard it and looked away. They squinted at the heavy sun, kicked their boots in the dust. Their faces hardened. They spat their dip and shifted the guns ...
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A recent standoff between National Guardsmen and heavily armed outlaws along the Mexican border has rattled some troops and raised questions about the rules of engagement for soldiers who were sent to the border in what was supposed to be a backup role.
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The story begins with one of my buddies who survived basic going on to kill interesting people in interesting places. Most of my group managed to go from Texas to Korea to work on flight lines and for more training. Somewhere along the way, someone managed to wander far off the beaten path. He ended up in Morocco and found himself a beautiful woman to marry for a few years and spent most of his time being chased by the MPs. Take one part Indiana Jones, add a heaping spoonful of boring and a pinch of action, and you have military life abroad. The smell of shisha begins there, and it doesn't smell like the Air Force...
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The Army is investigating reports that several members of a reservist supply unit in Iraq refused to go on a convoy mission, the military said Friday. Relatives of the soldiers said the troops considered the mission too dangerous.
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When the Black Watch battle group made their move north, there was an &quot;intelligence vacuum&quot; in the area according to an army source here; they did not know exactly what they would face.
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BAGHDAD, July 8 -- Everything in the Army is supposed to have a task and a purpose, and this simple mission was no different. The task was to get 27 soldiers from Point A to Point B, from their neighborhood combat outpost to an Army base four miles away. The purpose was to attend a memorial service...
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As battles go, Fallujah has been a big disappointment to the US military, which had wanted to draw the Iraqi insurgents into a cataclysmic mistake: a âfairâ fight.
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Historian says the high-level failure continues to undercut what has been a "mediocre" Army effort in Iraq.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions