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U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 14, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- German police in a Bavarian town shot and killed a U.S. soldier overnight after what appeared to be a violent domestic incident, local police said. Police said the man was armed with a military-style M4 rifle, took his girlfriend hostage in her house a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 10:41am neoform

MSNBC -- As bullets flew above their heads, the young soldier at Pat Tillman’s side started praying. “I thought I was praying to myself, but I guess he heard me,” Sgt. Bryan O’Neal recalled in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press. “He said.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 11:25am neoform

MSNBC -- NEW YORK - A soldier who recently returned from Iraq has admitted he paid someone $500 to shoot him in the leg so he could avoid returning for another tour. Jonathan Aponte, 20, claimed he had been robbed and shot but changed his story when police ques.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 10:38pm neoform

SF Gate -- A soldier was found guilty Monday of deserting her Army unit on the eve of its deployment to the Middle East and was sentenced to three months in military prison... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 9:49am neoform

CBS News -- Servicemen and women who made huge sacrifices fighting in the war and now paying yet another price, even after coming home. One soldier in particular is currently battling against a new "debt of service." Brian Rodriguez is a fighter, an honorably d.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 3:17pm neoform

CNN -- Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl. The notice, filed in U.S. District Court, cites 12 alleged offenses rel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 10:37am neoform

International Herald Tribune -- He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him. Four years ago almost to this.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:53am neoform

Independent -- Kevin Thompson doted on his grandfather, and emulated him by joining the Army. Now they have both died, just days apart. Pte Thompson was serving with 19 Combat Service Support Battalion in Iraq when his 78-year-old grandfather, Stan Thompson, a profes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 3:20am neoform

USA Today -- A German army instructor ordered a soldier to envision himself in New York City facing hostile blacks while firing his machine gun, a video that aired Saturday on national television showed. The president of the Bronx, the New York City borough that th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 15, 2007 @ 2:11pm mrmdc

MSNBC -- Suburban Chicago officials have renamed a street after an Army sergeant who lost both legs and one arm in Iraq... Read More