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The U.S. Army sergeant killed by a plane that crashed on a Florida beach was there celebrating his ninth wedding anniversary with family and friends, according to one of his last Facebook postings.

Gov. Mary Fallin is complaining to federal officials about the potential cost to Oklahoma from unaccompanied immigrant minors who are released from a temporary shelter at Fort Sill and placed with sponsors in the state.

Last night the military released the identity of a Soldier who was killed in a training accident Thursday, July 24. Sgt.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Dmitry Chepusov was declared dead Dec. 14 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, after being found unresponsive in the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by Air Force Staff Sgt.

What was born and raised in Scandinavia, loved by the British, and still looked upon with a jaundiced eye by the Americans? No, not the latest incarnation of Ace of Base or ABBA, but the latest in military robotics - the aptly nicknamed pocket drone.

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On this day in 1945 a US Army B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, setting it ablaze and killing 13 people.

A 30-year-old Army staff sergeant from Nebraska is being remembered as a devoted family man after his death in Afghanistan.

The world seems more chaotic day by day. The evening news is endlessly depressing.

Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton on Saturday announced the formation of a group of military veterans called Veterans for Cotton who support him in his race for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor.

Fort Polk owes its existence to two things above all others -- available land and warm weather.

Thunderstorms may cause grains of grass pollen such as these to burst into pieces small enough to travel into the lungs and cause asthma attacks.

Fighting for his country in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jesus Jimenez helped fellow soldiers disarm enemy bombs.

Libyans condemn and urge for an end of war during a protest on Saturday at the Algeria Square in Tripoli, Libya.

On the morning of Feb. 3, 2004, Seth Dvorin, a newly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, led a platoon of young men along a scarred road in Iskandariyah, Iraq, just south of Baghdad.

The United States military is developing a mini-surveillance drone that would fit into soldiers' pockets, with special features for dangerous combat zones.

Blitz, a mixed breed dog from Afghanistan, is reunited in Fuquay-Varina with one of the Special Forces soldiers from Fort Bragg who took care of the dog and his brother, Rommel, in Afghanistan.

A soldier from Kenosha has died from an illness he got while in Afghanistan. According to the Department of Defense, Pfc.

The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Sen. John Walsh since the Democrat linked a cribbed research project he wrote in 2007 to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Single mother LaShonda Bickford, of O'Fallon, Mo., shown here in early July, bought furniture from USA Discounters.