War dog retires with fallen Marine's family
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A U.S. military dog whose handler and best friend was killed in Iraq got a new assignment today -- retirement with the late Marine's family. Lex was beside Cpl. Dustin Lee when Lee was killed in a mortar attack in Falluja. It took months of lobbying by the family to get the dog's adoption approved by the military.
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CERES, Calif. -- A 19-year-old Marine whose family said he feared returning to Iraq was killed by police after he shot and killed an officer and wounded another, and authorities said they are investigating the case as a ''suicide by cop."
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a U.S.  military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life with  his family in his Japanese wife's home town.
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Amid sobs and waving American flags, hundreds of Maryland Army National Guard soldiers bid goodbye to family and friends yesterday and prepared to deploy to Iraq, part of the Guard's largest deployment from the state since World War II.
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The first Medal of Honor awarded for combat in Afghanistan will be&#13;&#10;presented to the family of a Navy SEAL who&#13;&#10;gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team
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He met with families of Marines killed in Iraq at Camp Pendleton in Southern California. The base has suffered 269 deaths in the war -- about one fifth of the total US losses.
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LOUISVILLE, KY. - In July 2003, Amanda Young said goodbye to her father as he left for Iraq to work for a contractor and help the family out of debt...
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A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted  to North Korea nearly four decades ago left a U.S. military  base near Tokyo on Tuesday for a new life with his family in  his Japanese wife's home town.
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SADO - The family of former US Army sergeant Charles Jenkins spent a quiet morning Wednesday in Sado, his wife&#39;s hometown, where they will begin their new life in Japan.
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He signed up for the Marine Reserves in peacetime. Then the towers fell. The military as he knew it changed forever--as did his place in it.
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A Las Cruces couple is mourning the loss of their son, who was killed this week in Iraq. 39 year old Army National Guard Sergeant Christian Engeldrum was killed outside Baghdad when a roadside bomb ripped through his Humvee.
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When U.S. Marine Raul Bravo Jr. died in Iraq last year, his family joined thousands of other Americans who have suffered the tragedy of seeing a loved one killed in the war.
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An American Marine has been killed in action in a restive western area of Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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SLIGO, Ireland - As Denis Lafleur prepared to return to Canada later today, his heart went out to the family of his fallen comrade, who did not survive last week&#39;s fire on their submarine, as well as his fellow crew still at sea.
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Two weeks ago, this oceanside military community held a memorial service for 10 of its Marines killed in Iraq. They were among 18 Marines from the base on Kaneohe Bay who died in the war.
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THE soldiers of the Black Watch pulled out of Iraq&#39;s Triangle of Death yesterday - and are expected home within a week. Seven-year-old Stephen McNicol last night celebrated the return of his father Lance Corporal Sandy McNicol, 34, in time for Christmas.
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LAPORTE, Ind. -- The mother of a northern Indiana soldier killed in Iraq said her son joined the Army because he wanted to be like his father.