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From left, Dennis Puleo, Tom Hanks, Bob DeVenezia, kneeling, and Bob Falk met on Cinnamon Beach Saturday, April 23, 2016 in Palm Coast, Fla. The four friends hadn't all been in the same place since being shipped off to fight in the Vietnam War. Luke Franke/Naples Daily News/AP

4 Marines come together after 50 years for the perfect photo

They wanted the picture to be just right, to look as close as possible to the one they'd taken together 50 years ago, back when their memories hadn't yet been clouded by the images of war. So on a recent Saturday morning, on the sun-drenched Atlantic shore of Cinnamon Beach on Florida's northeast coast, four U.S. Marine veterans gathered around a yellow longboard turned upright, trying to recreate a moment from five decades earlier.

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Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, as a child and as a U.S. Navy officer. U.S. Navy

'Fat Leonard' scandal claims Navy officer who fled killing fields

After escaping Cambodia's killing fields as a child, Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz lived an improbably charmed life. He was adopted by an American mother, graduated from the Naval Academy and became a decorated officer who triumphantly returned to his native country as the skipper of a U.S. warship.

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Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland. Courtesy of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter

Soldier who hit admitted Afghan child rapist will stay in Army

An Army board on Wednesday determined Army Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland’s military personnel file contained an “error or injustice,” an Army spokesman said Friday morning. Removing that error from his record means Martland will continue to serve at least through the end of his enlistment.

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  • A crowd of people gathers to look at damaged buildings after airstrikes hit Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday, April 28, 2016.<br>Validated UGC/AP

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  • Iraqi security forces guard the heavily fortified Green Zone as followers of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wave national flags as they gather in front of Baghdad's Green Zone on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Officials reported on Saturday that protesters breached the security barrier to the diplomatic zone, where they stormed the parliament building.<br>Karim Kadim/AP

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    Hundreds of protesters climbed over the blast walls surrounding Baghdad's highly-fortified Green Zone for the first time on Saturday and stormed into parliament, carrying Iraqi flags and chanting against the government.

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  • A Russian SU-27 fighter performs an exercise maneuver on Aug. 8, 2010, over Anchorage, Alaska. <br>Michael Humphreys/U.S. Army

    Defense official: Russians buzzed US plane in Baltic Sea

    A Russian fighter plane flew dangerously close to an American reconnaissance aircraft operating over international waters in the Baltic Sea Friday morning, the Pentagon said.

  • Vakil Batirshin and his wife, Minfiza, stand in their yard in the village of New Muslyumovo in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on april 7, 2016. Batirshin has swollen lymph nodes from radiation-related illnesses. <br>Iuliia Subbotovska/AP

    Russia's nuclear nightmare flows down radioactive river

    At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime's exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as a reporter strolls down to the muddy riverbank

  • Memorial set for 25 US soldiers lost in Italian lake during WWII
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  • Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, left, and Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, inspect the troops during a change of command ceremony on Knight Field, South Korea, April 30, 2016.<br>
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    Green Beret who hit admitted Afghan child rapist will stay in the Army

  • Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Findings from the Defense Department Inspector General?s audit - published Friday - found that as of May 26, 2015, the largest U.S. military hospital overseas had more than 12,000 outstanding medical service accounts totaling about $4.6 million.<br>
    Delinquent bills total more than $4 million at Landstuhl

  • Retired Marine Ken Rodgers poses during the Vietnam War at Khe Sanh in 1968. Rodgers will receive the Ellen Hardin Walworth Founders Medal for Patriotism, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution's highest award, May 12 in Boise, Idaho.<br>Courtesy of 'Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor'
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  • Longtime U.S. military interpreter "Malik," left, on a patrol with American forces in Farah province, Afghanistan, in 2008. Despite working for more than a decade with U.S. troops and facing death threats from the Taliban, Malik has been waiting five years for a visa created specifically for former Afghan and Iraqi interpreters facing danger. <br>Courtesy photo

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  • Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman celebrates after tackling New Orleans Saints running back Lamar Smith for a loss in the third quarter of an NFL football game in Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 20, 1998.<br>Roy Dabner/AP
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