Soldier truly a knight in armor
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A scout with the Tennessee National Guard, Wilson is one of 2,300 soldiers visited Wednesday in Kuwait by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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LANDSTUHL, Germany A US Marine who was wounded in the battle for Fallujah says the fighting is intense -- &quot;house to house&quot; and &quot;rooftop to rooftop.
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Army Sgt. Dustin J. Perrott was the kind of leader who infused others with motivation and the sort of person with whom it was impossible not to share a smile, his commander said. To friends and family, he was brave, charismatic and selfless. His wife and friends called him the Gentle Giant.
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BAGHDAD -- An 18-year-old private earned the first Silver Star medal awarded to a soldier from the First Cavalry Division serving in Iraq, after he helped fight off a deadly guerrilla ambush in May that killed two of his companions and wounded five.
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A former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline  soldiersâ daily work in Iraq.
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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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Improved Kevlar body armor has resulted in a distinctly new pattern of combat injuries.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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The soldier who made headlines Thursday by challenging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the lack of armor for military vehicles prepared his question with the help of an embedded reporter, according to an e-mail the reporter sent to his colleagues
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.
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A young army private who received Britain's highest military honour but who paid a physical and emotional price for his heroism in Iraq has been promoted to lance corporal.
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Being a little bit scared is good. Many Marines say it keeps them sharp during a war in which combat comes in spurts, separated by lengthy bouts of boredom.
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An Etobicoke veteran who was wounded in Normandy during the violent days following D-Day is receiving France's highest honour tomorrow -- The Legion of Honour.
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A paratrooper killed in Afghanistan is awarded the highest recognition for military gallantry, the Victoria Cross.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.
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By Chris Echegaray, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 18--TAMPA -- They didn't have a horse-drawn carriage, but Brian and Amber McKnight were the picture of medieval characters with their garb.
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Edward Lee Pitts of the Chattanooga Times Free Press told colleagues in an e-mail that he and members of the Tennessee Army National Guard now in Kuwait "worked on questions to ask Rumsfeld about the appalling lack of armor" and that Spec. Thomas Wilson posed the question at his request.