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  • Army Capt. Aston Armstrong is posted in a clearing to help guard a perimeter as the platoon breaks for a meal during a training mission. The Massachusetts native graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 2008 and sought to earn a coveted sapper badge. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    Making a tough 'go' as sappers

    Bullets spewed from the M240 machine gun's barrel so fast that it was practically spitting flames.


  • **FILE** Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (Associated Press)

    Army looks for global partnerships

    To maintain its relevance in a post-Afghanistan world, the U.S. Army is learning to make new friends.


  • U.S. Marine Sgt. Albert Winschel (right) demonstrates how to apply a tourniquet on fellow Marine Sgt. Preston Norton as they give medic training to soldiers with the Uganda People's Defense Force at the Singo training facility in Kakola. American military advisers there are drawing on experience from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

    U.S. advisers train troops for Somalia

    American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.


  • DE BORCHGRAVE: The global house of cards

    Rumor has it that a new Broadway musical on Washington will soon be in production. It draws on "Jersey Shore" and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."


  • An Oakland police officer walks outside of Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

    Oakland mourns victims of deadly campus shooting

    Civic and religious leaders pleaded for an end to violence in Oakland after seven people were gunned down at a small Christian college by a suspect who police say was angry about being expelled and teased for his poor English skills.


  • Oakland police cover bodies of shooting victims near Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, April 2, 2012.  (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    California attack suspect upset about expulsion, teasing

    A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday.


  • Inside Politics: Obama to fast-track pipeline, other infrastructure projects

    President Obama will direct federal agencies to fast-track an oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas, backing a segment of the larger Keystone XL project that he rejected earlier this year.


  • A firefighter exits the front of a heavily damaged two-story home in Hope Mills, N.C., on Tuesday. A Special Forces soldier died trying to rescue his two young daughters during a fire at the house. Edward Cantrell, Isabella Cantrell, 6, and Natalia Cantrell, 4, perished in the blaze. (Associated Press)

    Green Beret dies trying to save daughters from fire

    A decorated Green Beret who returned from his fifth deployment to Afghanistan last summer died Tuesday trying to rescue his two young daughters from their burning home near Fort Bragg. The girls were also killed in the blaze.


  • Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: Free speech - for some

    According to the Council on Ameri- can Islamic Relations (CAIR), there is a grave threat to America that must be suppressed at all costs. The threat is that Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin might be allowed to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech.


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