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A man is halted climbing the US-Mexico border wall. Under new Trump rules, US troops sound the alarm
Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
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The shark-attack death of a California Navy contractor has prompted the Navy to suspend all water activities in the waters off Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia is a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean, about 967 nautical miles south of India's southernmost tip. -
The president of the National Women Veterans Association of America canceled Mayor Bob Filner's keynote speech over sexual harassment allegations today. -
The non-combat related death of Army Spc. Anthony R. Maddox, 22, is under investigation. Maddox died July 22 in a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany from injuries related to an incident in Andar, Afghanistan. -
Three U.S. service members were killed Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber riding a donkey detonated his explosives. -
Miramar officials say they will hold their air show, even without active-duty military planes in the air. -
Dennis Farina, an actor best known for staring in television shows like 'Law and Order' and 'Crime Story' died today at age 69. Farina served three years in the U.S. Army during the 1960s. -
Two U.S. Navy jets dropped four bombs on Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park last week in a training exercise mishap. While the Navy insists the bombs don't pose a threat to the environmentally-sensitive reef, National Geographic calls the mishap "an insult to a delicate ecosystem." -
MCAS Miramar commanding officer Col. John Farnam announced today the 2013 MCAS Miramar Air Show will go ahead as scheduled, despite the Pentagon's grounding of military aircraft for air shows due to sequestration cuts. -
Bethany Bronson and her four children were enjoying their day at the Kadena Marina on Okinawa in Japan, counting down the weeks until Capt. Bronson would return home to them from Afghanistan. But Bethany's husband had other plans. With the creative use of Scuba gear, Capt. Bronson pulled off one of the most touching military family reunions in recent memory. -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will not take up a request by prosecutors to reconsider its ruling to throw out the conviction of Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, which allows him to be released from the MCAS Miramar brig as early as today.
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