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The hearse carrying the body of Army Pvt. Francheska Velez drives through the Mount Olive Cemetery on Thursday in Chicago. Velez, 21, who was pregnant, was among 13 people killed when a fellow soldier allegedly opened fire at Fort Hood earlier this month. Two U.S. senators and an anti-abortion group have urged that the death of Velez’s fetus be included in the murder charges.
The already high-profile military trial of Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan could become yet more complex and politically charged if he faces a 14th murder count. Two U.S. senators and an anti-abortion group have urged that Hasan be charged with the murder of a fetus that died along with its mother, a young woman just back from Iraq: Pvt. Francheska Velez.
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Carleton King says the Army still owes him $500 for each of the 18 months he was stop-lossed from November 2007 to May 2009. Right now, he is getting by on $400 a week in unemployment benefits as he looks for work with police departments in the Washington, D.C., area.
The Army in Europe is bringing its library collections to deployed troops using a host of online services. The program allows troops to browse Army library collections, download videos, check out books and get them delivered by mail, according to Stacy Graham, the Army's Europe Region librarian.
It's 8,600 Marines, not 8,000, moving to Guam. That doesn't count the estimated 9,000 sailors and Marines expected to visit the island for an average of two months each year.
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