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2 U.S. soldiers killed in Philippines bomb blast

Two U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb while supporting anti-terror operations on an island in the southern Philippines, Army officials said Thursday.

SI.com: Josh Gross: Sefo takes on new kind of fighting

Inside the confines of Randy Couture's Las Vegas, Ray Sefo has spent the past 18 months unlearning what he spent a lifetime perfecting.

Army: 'Insufficient evidence' of crime in soldier's electrocution

There will be no criminal charges filed in the death of a Green Beret who was electrocuted in his quarters in Iraq last year, the Department of Defense said Friday.

'Multiple' failures led to Iraq electrocution, Pentagon says

A Green Beret sergeant was electrocuted in Iraq in 2008 because of failures by the U.S. military and a major defense contractor, which did not properly ground and inspect electrical equipment, according to a Pentagon report out Monday.

Investigator: Soldier's electrocution 'negligent homicide'

A U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division investigator has recommended changing the official manner of death for a soldier electrocuted while showering at his base in Iraq from "accidental" to "negligent homicide," according to an e-mail from the investigator obtained by CNN.

Time.com: Report: Iraq Contract Pricetag $85B

Military contracts in the Iraq theater have cost taxpayers at least $85 billion, according to a Congressional Budget Office report

Time.com: Army Charges Likely in Afghan Death

Army prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to seek a murder charge against a Special Forces soldier accused of killing and mutilating the body of a civilian in southern Afghanistan

Time.com: Questions in Pregnant Soldier Death

Authorities aren't saying much about the death of a pregnant soldier whose body was found in a motel bathtub in Fayetteville more than a month ago

Ex-Atlantic City mayor gets probation, fine for fraud

Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy was sentenced to three years probation and fined $5,000 Friday after pleading guilty in November 2007 to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Time.com: Pregnant GI Death Ruled Homicide

Authorities investigating the death of a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier say they are treating the case as a homicide

2 U.S. soldiers killed in Philippines bomb blast

Two U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb while supporting anti-terror operations on an island in the southern Philippines, Army officials said Thursday.

SI.com: Josh Gross: Sefo takes on new kind of fighting

Inside the confines of Randy Couture's Las Vegas, Ray Sefo has spent the past 18 months unlearning what he spent a lifetime perfecting.

Army: 'Insufficient evidence' of crime in soldier's electrocution

There will be no criminal charges filed in the death of a Green Beret who was electrocuted in his quarters in Iraq last year, the Department of Defense said Friday.

'Multiple' failures led to Iraq electrocution, Pentagon says

Investigator: Soldier's electrocution 'negligent homicide'

Time.com: Report: Iraq Contract Pricetag $85B

Military contracts in the Iraq theater have cost taxpayers at least $85 billion, according to a Congressional Budget Office report

Time.com: Army Charges Likely in Afghan Death

Army prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to seek a murder charge against a Special Forces soldier accused of killing and mutilating the body of a civilian in southern Afghanistan

Time.com: Questions in Pregnant Soldier Death

Authorities aren't saying much about the death of a pregnant soldier whose body was found in a motel bathtub in Fayetteville more than a month ago

Ex-Atlantic City mayor gets probation, fine for fraud

Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy was sentenced to three years probation and fined $5,000 Friday after pleading guilty in November 2007 to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Time.com: Pregnant GI Death Ruled Homicide

Authorities investigating the death of a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier say they are treating the case as a homicide

Letter, soldier probed in pregnant GI's death

Authorities identified a soldier in training as a person of interest in the death of a pregnant soldier found in a North Carolina motel room, a military official said.

Writer claims to be pregnant soldier's killer

Authorities have identified a soldier in training as a person of interest in the death of a pregnant soldier in North Carolina, a military official said. Plus, a North Carolina newspaper received a letter purportedly from the soldier's killer.

Green Beret electrocuted in shower on Iraq base

A highly decorated Green Beret, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died a painful death in Iraq this year. He died not on the battlefield. He died in what should have been one of the safest spots in Iraq: on a U.S. base, in his bathroom.

Time.com: Elite Soldiers Spread Too Thin

America's foreign wars are making such heavy use of the nation's special ops soldiers that they cannot fulfill their roles in other parts of the world, a military official says

Newly designed rifles for America's most elite troops

No piece of equipment is more crucial to a soldier in the field than his rifle. And America's most elite troops are about to get a new series of rifles designed for their unique and dangerous missions.

Army Rangers, medic arrested on drug, firearms charges

Four active-duty U.S. soldiers -- three of them elite Army Rangers -- have been arrested and charged with planning to rob drug traffickers.

Atlantic City mayor pleads guilty to cheating Veterans Department

The former mayor of Atlantic City pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $25,000 for false claims about his military service during the Vietnam War, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey.

Lawyer says missing mayor under investigation, has resigned

The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, who is the target of a federal investigation into his military disability payments, has resigned after being missing from work for two weeks, his attorney said Wednesday.

Officers face discipline in Tillman's death

Nine military officers, including four generals, will face "corrective action" for making critical mistakes in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, military officials said Monday.

AP: Pentagon to cite 9 officers in ex-NFL star's death

Pentagon officials say a Defense Department investigation will recommend that nine officers be held accountable for the aftermath of the friendly-fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, according to The Associated Press.

Quade: Secretive military team allows reporter inside

The U.S. Air Force's Combat Search and Rescue community is close-knit, secretive, tight.

Elite team rescues troops behind enemy lines

As a member of the U.S. Air Force's elite Combat Search and Rescue team, "Dan," a pararescueman, or PJ, is used to saving the lives of fellow U.S. and coalition troops in battlefield situations. But last month, he was the one in need of rescue.

CNNMoney: Iraq Study Group report a bestseller

While there is much debate over the findings of the Iraq Study Group released Wednesday, a book form of the panel's findings has already become a best seller.

Five U.S. soldiers charged with abuse

Five U.S. soldiers from the 75th Ranger Regiment have been accused of beating detainees in Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday.

EW review: 'Skeleton Key' rises above C-level

Zombies are, if anything, overrepresented in today's movie marketplace. Yet the spiritual tradition that invented them -- Afro-Caribbean voodoo -- rarely gets the spotlight, serving mostly as a genre backdrop for all-too-familiar stories about good-looking white people in over their heads (e.g., "Angel Heart").

U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan

A U.S. soldier died Sunday and a second was wounded when their unit was attacked by 15 to 20 suspected insurgents in southwestern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.

Source: Special ops member rescued in Afghanistan

One member of a U.S. special operations reconnaissance team missing in Afghanistan since Tuesday has been rescued, a U.S. official told CNN.

Search for U.S. missing stepped up

The U.S. military was devoting "all available assets" Saturday in an attempt to find a small number of U.S. Special Forces who have been missing in Afghanistan for four days, shortly after a helicopter carrying their reinforcements crashed, killing 16 service members.

U.S. troops unaccounted for in Afghanistan

Military officials said Friday that a small number of U.S. special operations forces remain unaccounted for after an Army helicopter crashed three days ago along the Afghan-Pakistan border while attempting to provide reinforcements.

Bodies recovered from Afghan crash site

Coalition forces have recovered all 16 bodies of the servicemen killed in a helicopter crash Tuesday near the Afghan-Pakistan border, according to the U.S. military.

U.S. copter came under fire before crash

The U.S. military helicopter that crashed along the Afghan-Pakistani border came under hostile fire before it went down, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.

Rescuers try to reach downed helicopter

Rescuers were battling darkness to reach eastern Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains, where a U.S. military helicopter carrying more than a dozen troops went down Tuesday.

13 of 16 killed in Afghan crash were U.S. troops

Thirteen of the 16 people confirmed killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Wednesday were U.S. service members, the American military said Thursday.

Incentives target special ops troops

The Pentagon has approved an incentives package designed to retain special operations troops in the military, Pentagon officials said Friday.

Swift boat showdown in Crawford

"We're asking George Bush today to put up or shut up," former Democratic Senator and Vietnam War veteran Max Cleland said in Crawford, Texas, as he tried to deliver a letter to the president signed by several current U.S. senators -- all veterans -- asking the president to denounce the swift boat attack ads against John Kerry.

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CIA secrecy at issue in beating case

A federal judge agreed Wednesday to set up procedures to help keep secret what the CIA may have been doing in the mountains of Afghanistan when one of its independent contractors allegedly beat a detainee who died a day later.

Remembering the storming of Omaha Beach

Nathan Reed, a frail 86-year-old man who now wears gloves to protect his hands from hot coffee cups, may be one of the bravest souls you'll ever meet.

Army awards Tillman posthumous Silver Star

A Silver Star has been awarded posthumously to Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former football player who died last week after returning to an ambush to save the remainder of his platoon, Army Special Operations Command said Friday.

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