Little effort made to find deserters
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There is no crack team of bounty hunters, no elite military unit whose job is to track them down and bring them in.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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Fewer than a quarter of eligible Iraqis living abroad sign up to vote in Sunday's election, officials say.
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More than 500 soldiers and other searchers walked side by side in scorching heat Monday, looking for any sign of a soldier lost for nearly three days in the juniper-covered hills of the fort's training range. They came up empty.
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the military, few are signing up to go, officials say.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.
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The jihadists' tactics aren't mysterious. We just need help on the ground
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Sudan has eased access to its troubled Darfur region for relief workers and supplies but hasn&#39;t disbanded the marauding militia that caused 1.5 million people to flee their homes
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The U.S. Army fell short of its active-duty recruiting goal for June by about 15 percent, defense officials said yesterday. It is the second consecutive month the service's enlistment effort has faltered amid the American public's growing discontent over the war in Iraq.
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Seems that folks at the Agency for International Development are not rushing to fill 23 excellent jobs in garden spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan. And if no one volunteers soon, AID Administrator    Andrew S. Natsios  said in an agency-wide e-mail Friday, the agency will order people to fill those posts.
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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.
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The Army is getting a grudging response &#151; or none at all &#151; from hundreds of former soldiers it ordered back into uniform for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, although none has been declared AWOL.
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Desperately short of soldiers who speak Arabic and understand Islam, the U.S. military is quietly courting American Muslims. But they show little enthusiasm for an institution many say is prejudiced against them.
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IN THE early hours of yesterday, guided only by the night vision goggles strapped to their helmets, a company of Black Watch soldiers walked silently through the desert hoping for a small success story at the end of a grim week.
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American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have slipped away only to fight another day.
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BALTIMORE Sometimes they'd arrive quiet as spies in those segregated towns and grab a place at a rooming house. It wouldn't take long to find out which neighborhood it might be wise to avoid come nightfall.
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A small but potent group of voters is feeling slighted after getting no-shows from the top candidates at a major conference