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The real tragedy at Fort Hood is that like 9/11 it could have been prevented with even the slightest cooperation among government agencies that had reason to suspect things were not right with Maj.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation on Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.

In early October, Army Spc. Brian Meindl was lying beside a dirt road in the Afghanistan desert wondering whether he was still alive or getting his first glimpse of the afterlife.

A Wisconsin soldier injured in the Fort Hood shootings spent Thanksgiving with his family, reminding all of everything they have to be thankful for.

In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Kevin Elllenbrock, fom Cincinnati , Ohio , belonging to Alpha troop of the 3-71 Cavalry squadron, left, conducts a survey with townspeople near the town of Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan .

Army Staff Sgt. Christian Hughes fingers his scar, the first of four. One bullet, he says, went in here.

Volunteers are helping serve thousands of free Thanksgiving meals in Colorado. Gov. Bill Ritter, his family and volunteers from the Sheraton Hotel and Westin Tabor Center werfe serving 300 Thanksgiving dinners at the Samaritan House in Denver Thursday.

US Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division race toward a Blackhawk helicopter as they are picked up from a mission October 15, 2009 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

Former top Pentagon officials investigating the attack at a Texas Army post have visited the site of the shootings and a military hospital.

Military cooks at Fort Benning in west Georgia are literally feeding an Army this Thanksgiving .

If you've always wanted to check out the huge metal head and sword of Saddam Hussein brought back from Iraq, dioramas of famous battles, the jeep Gen.

Authorities are still investigating the death of Sgt. Craig Gaglia, who died at Fort Riley on Monday, according to officials at the base.

A Fort Carson soldier from Illinois has died after an attack in Afghanistan. The Defense Department said Tuesday that 22-year-old Spc.

The family of a Fort Lewis soldier who died in a non-combat shooting in Iraq says she was killed execution-style, with a bullet in the back of the head.

A North Carolina politician who heads a national Muslim civil rights group has condemned the Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

A Virginia Beach woman has admitted participating in the stabbing of a soldier at Fort Eustis and to helping the suspect flee.

The US Army is building up its Sky Warrior UAV's offensive capability in anticipation of a late-2010 deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan The US Army's General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1C Sky Warrior unmanned aerial vehicle is expected to conduct a live-fire test of a Hellfire air-to-ground missile for the first time during a flight ...

Lieutenant Dan Choi, who came out on the Rachel Maddow Show earlier this year and faces discharge from the military under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, spoke to students at the University of Pennsylvania's LGBT Center in Philadelphia on Nov.

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About 90 soldiers from a Fort Sill-based battalion have returned home in time for Thanksgiving after being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.