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USA TODAY DETROIT -- When Logan Stark first set foot in Afghanistan in fall 2010 as a Marine, he wasn't too worried. "I thought it was going to be easy, like video games, like a movie," Stark recalled. "It wasn't." His first week there, 10 men in his battalion were killed. "We took a lot of casualties," said Stark, 26, of East Lansing. "After that, you really had to come to grips with ...

By Michael Chen ABC News10 (San Diego) SAN DIEGO — A man whose mother passed away believes U.S. Navy testing may have contributed to her new pacemaker shutting off. In 2010, 10News talked to Susan Reedy, who had been interviewed by an FDA liaison after she claimed a series of strange remote control malfunctions in San Diego were tied to breakdowns with her pacemaker. "It's like your heart is jumping sideways,&q ...

By Chris Morris Plugged In  The Internet might be a haven for cat lovers, but when it comes to gamers, dogs rule. Activision has a viral hit on its hands with Call of Duty: Ghosts, but not for the reasons it likely expected.  The German Shepherd seen wearing a motion-capture suit in the game’s first official trailers and screenshots has become something of an internet sensation. Since his unexpected debut ...

ABC News Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats. Nine different brewers collaborated to create Homefront IPA, all using the same recipe, complete with orange peel and unfinished maple Louisville Sluggers. Toward the end of the fermentation process the beer soaks in a tank with the maple bats. All proce ...

David Jackson USA TODAY ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Obama urged a new generation of military leaders Friday to address the problem of sexual assault within their ranks. "Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that makes our military strong," Obama said during commencement services at the U.S. Naval Academy. Obama, who has ordered the Pentagon to a ...

VOA News LONDON — Senior British officials say the two men detained for the gruesome murder of an off-duty British soldier on a London street had been identified earlier by security teams investigating suspected Islamist extremists. The victim, a 25-year-old father named Lee Rigby who had served in Afghanistan, died at the scene. The two suspects were shot and wounded by police. Media reports Thursday cited British Musli ...

By Dan Robinson VOA News WASHINGTON — In a major address at the National Defense University in Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama has given a framework for ongoing counterterrorism efforts, including the use of drones in direct lethal action against terrorists.     The hourlong speech was Mr. Obama's most expansive effort yet to define threats that al-Qaida and "associated forces" pose to the Un ...

VOA News KABUL — Two large explosions shook a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital Friday, in the second major attack in Kabul in a little more than a week.   There was also shooting in the area as militants and security forces engaged in a gun battle.   ??Afghan police say the first blast was a suicide bombing close to a hospital run by the state intelligence service and to the headquarters of the Afgha ...

LONDON (AP) — Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took part in demonstrations with the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun. Meanwhile, British police on Thursday evening announced the arrests of two more suspects in the case. Police said a man and a woman, both aged 29, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. F ...

By Hal Bernton Seattle Times  Even after repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Maj. Robert Marshall, an Air Force Special Operations pilot from Mercer Island, has rarely been content to stay at home. Instead, he has hungered to climb mountains.On Monday, Marshall was one of four active-duty airmen to summit Mount Everest. The ascent was the final climb in the USAF 7 Summits Challenge, co-founded by Marshall in 20 ...