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Staff Sgt. Joy Clark of the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment takes a moment to run her fingers over the engravings of the names of her fellow soldiers at a ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base, in Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2010. Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Fort Hood victims to receive Purple Hearts Friday

Victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting will receive the Purple Heart in a ceremony Friday morning in the culmination of a yearslong battle to designate the shooting spree as an act of terrorism.

April 6, 2015
moving in: Iraqi fighters on Tuesday went house to house and street by street in search of snipers and booby traps to liberate the city from the Islamic State. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said security forces reached the heart of the city. (Associated Press)

Iraqi forces take Tikrit, but victory celebration may be premature

Iraqi forces celebrated progress in Tikrit on Tuesday, but analysts cautioned that securing the city that Islamic State fighters have controlled since June is not complete and warned that the next step, to retake Mosul, would be even more difficult than the weekslong battle in Tikrit, which required U.S. aid.

March 31, 2015
Veteran Army Spc. Julio Bernal of Takoma Park, Md. who served in Iraq brings more American flags over to fellow military veterans who put them down on the National Mall in D.C. on March 27, 2014. Veterans and supporters place American flags on the National Mall to represent each of the 1,892 veterans and service members who have died by suicide this year. (The Washington Times) **FILE**

Active-duty suicides up in 2014: report

Suicides among active duty members of the military increased in 2014, through reservists and members of the National Guard saw a decrease, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Pentagon.

March 31, 2015
CARIBBEAN SEA (Sept. 21, 2012) A BQM-74E drone launches from the flight deck of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Underwood (FFG 36) during a live-fire drone exercise. U.S. Navy photo.

U.S. military aspires to launch drones from ocean floor

Drones that can hibernate for years on the ocean floor before being remotely activated to burst through the surface and into the air could be a reality soon as military researchers begin testing the technology this year.

March 30, 2015
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 18, 2015, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on President Obama's use of military force proposal against IS and the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) **FILE**

Ashton Carter: Defense Dept. must adapt to recruit younger generations

Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced Monday that the military will have to do more to recruit the best of the next generation, including helping to pay off student loans, improving transition assistance and expanding programs that offer a mid-career break.

March 30, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks next to new VA Secretary Robert McDonald during a meeting on veterans issues at the Phoenix VA Medical Center on March 13, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

VA fails to drug test majority of hires in 2013: report

The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to administer a drug test to about 70 percent of employees hired in 2013 who were supposed to be tested, according to an inspector general report released Monday.

March 30, 2015
Several legal analysts predicted that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 28, who faces confinement for life if convicted, will receive a more lenient sentence in a plea deal to avoid a drawn-out trial that just provides more bad publicity for the Army after a year of media scrutiny on the conditions around Sgt. Bergdahl's disappearance in 2009. (Associated Press)

Bowe Bergdahl charged with desertion

The Army charged Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl with desertion Wednesday for abandoning his post in Afghanistan and for misbehavior before the enemy that endangered his unit, kicking off a legal process that his brothers-in-arms demanded, rekindling the debate over the Obama administration's swapping five top Taliban terrorists, and prompting the sergeant himself to say the Taliban had tortured him.

March 25, 2015