GREENSBORO, N.C. — To find Army Spec. David Emanuel Hickman on the morning after his unit returned to Fort Bragg from Iraq , you had to drive 100 miles north, to his home town. Up Highway 29, less than two clicks from the northeast Greensboro cul-de-sac where he grew up, Hickman was in Lot 54 in the Garden of Peace at Lakeview Memorial Park Cemetery. Read full article > >

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In Iraq, the last to fall: David Hickman, the 4,474th U.S. service member killed

Friends and family say goodbye to Sgt. 1st Class Ofren Arrechaga, who was killed as his unit attacked an insurgent-controlled valley near the Pakistan border. Read full article > >

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A soldier slain in Afghanistan is laid to rest

Friends and family say goodbye to Sgt. 1st Class Ofren Arrechaga, who was killed as his unit attacked an insurgent-controlled valley near the Pakistan border. Read full article > >

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A soldier slain in Afghanistan is laid to rest

If ever there was an indicator of a rebel force in disarray it was this: a lone Libyan rebel in uniform on the highway leading away from the battlefield, unarmed, almost dazed, separated from his unit, trying to hitch a ride.

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At War: A Libyan Rebel in Need of a Lift

In the hospital, after her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in a fireball, L. Tammy Duckworth’s fellow soldiers made sure four of her personal items made the trip home from Iraq with her: her wedding ring, her dog tags, her unit patch and a coin she always kept in the breast pocket of her flight…

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Military’s prized "challenge coins" become copycat fad among agencies, politicians, companies

Three days after they killed an Afghan cleric named Mullah Adahdad, members of a U.S. Army platoon returned to his village. Tribal elders had complained to Army officers that the cleric had been unarmed and that the May 2 shooting was a setup. The soldiers tried to convince them otherwise.

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Unit sought to defend killing

ABC News obtained video of an American charged with murder describing how his unit killed for sport.

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Soldier Describes Killing of Afghan in Tape

Panorama is given unique access to Israel’s Naval Commando 13, the unit which seized a ship in the Gaza flotilla in May resulting in the deaths of nine activists.

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Israel’s commandos train for ops