NEWS

09 Feb 2010

The military has canceled the deposition of an alleged terrorist mastermind who claimed that he was assaulted by the military following his capture last year. The law firm Puckett and Faraj, representing Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe, made the announcement on Sunday.

Navy triathletes to join world's top endurance athletes in 31st annual competition

At West Point his classmates compared him to the charismatic renegade played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. But General Stanley McChrystal, the coalition commander in Afghanistan, can offer no vanishing trick for the “deteriorating” mission that he has been ordered to rescue.

While some soldiers tend to keep their battlefield experiences private, U.S. Navy veteran Marcus Luttrell did just the opposite — writing it all down in what has become a New York Times best-selling book, “Lone Survivor.”

Capt. Pete Wikul last saw his father at the age of 8, on a street corner in his native Harlem.

"He was a heroin addict," Wikul said Friday. "It was on West 140th Street. Either the cops or the Mafia came for him. I was never sure which."

Former United States Navy SEAL Ryan Job died in the early morning hours of Thursday, September 24, 2009 following reconstructive surgery to repair injuries he had received in combat in 2006 that had left him blind.

Navy SEALs from US Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in southern Somalia on Monday that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of 4 co-conspirators wanted in the 2002 bombing of an Israel owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, two senior U.S. military officials told Fox News.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alcohol and pornography are already off limits. Smoking is being actively discouraged. What might be next on the military’s list of forbidden vices for deployed troops?

One possible target: dietary supplements used by weight lifters to increase muscle mass.

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Compartment and sat down in my
Assigned seat. It was going to be a
Long flight. 'I'm glad I have a
Good book to read. Perhaps I will get
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Matt Flavin oversaw a 450-person intelligence unit in Bosnia, deployed overseas with the Navy SEALs and survived combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.