Platoon
Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986), a critically acclaimed Hollywood film about the Vietnam War, was the first in its category to be directed by someone who saw combat in that most divisive ...
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A U.S. military investigator recommended not prosecuting a Hawaii-based soldier for the premeditated murder of an unarmed Iraqi, saying there wasn't enough evidence that he shot and killed the man....
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Three U.S. soldiers slaughtered in a grisly kidnapping-murder plot south of Baghdad last June had been left alone for up to 36 hours in a poorly planned mission, a military investigation concluded....
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An American soldier who says he was ordered by his sergeant to shoot and kill an Iraqi fired his weapon but intentionally missed the man, who died several days later, his attorney told an Army inve...
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A soldier accused of helping his platoon sergeant kill an unarmed Iraqi said he only faked his part of the shooting, intentionally missing the already-wounded man.Spc. Christopher P. Shore testifie...
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The shooting started at dusk, a solid half hour of bullets zinging into the U.S. Army outpost, probably from AK-47 rifles firing from abandoned houses nearby.Soldiers returned fire, shaking the hea...
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One of four police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed African immigrant in 1999 sued the police department Tuesday in a bid to be returned to active duty.With the lawsuit in U.S....
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Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street.Bra...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - Hundreds of Maoist fighters have fled camps in
central Nepal accusing the Maoist leadership of not keeping its
promise, media reports said Tuesday.
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China will deploy engineers and a medical unit to Sudan's troubled Darfur region next month as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, the military reported.The peacekeeping unit of 315 peop...
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Question 1 of 10:What is the name of the fictional town which Mainwaring and his men so vigilantly protect?
Walmington-on-sea
Langley-on-seaBrittleton-on-seaBecking-on-seaQuestion 2 of 10:What is C...
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Platoon
Army investigator: reduce murder charge
