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Hundreds of emergency responders descend on Fort Lee for a mock terrorist attack today. They are there to prepare, should disaster really strike. It’s called “Talon Shield” and it is only a drill. But to those training at the army base, it's has to be as real as possible because if disaster strikes, it’s communication between all of those first responders that can make the difference between life and death.

WASHINGTON - The Army and Marine Corps are letting in more recruits with criminal records, including some with felony convictions, reflecting the increased pressure of five years of war and its mounting casualties.

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - The military calls its new weapon an ''active denial system,'' but that's an understatement. It's a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire.

Apart from causing that terrifying sensation, the technology is supposed to be harmless _ a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.

 

The Pentagon has abandoned its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty.

A soldier could be mobilized for a 24-month stretch in Iraq or Afghanistan, then demobilized and allowed to return to civilian life, only to be mobilized a second time for as much as an additional 24 months.

RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a United Nations Emergency Peace Service capable of intervening in the early stages of a humanitarian crisis could save millions of lives, billions of dollars, and is in the interests of the United States. Whereas genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity have occurred repeatedly in Rwanda, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and elsewhere; Whereas the House of Representatives has found that genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan;