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Navy midshipmen march before an NCAA college football game against Army, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) **FILE**

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In this file photo, Ryan McCarthy, at the time nominated to be Secretary of the Army, speaks during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

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Soldiers participate in live-fire gunnery qualification training at the Orchard Combat Training Center in Idaho, Feb.14, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo)

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FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, Mexico's Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda salutes soldiers at the Number 1 military camp in Mexico City. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard wrote in his Twitter account Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau had informed him that Gen. Cienfuegos has been arrested in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

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In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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This Nov. 5, 2009, file photo shows the entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

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An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires its 120 mm smoothbore cannon during a live-fire event as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2015 in Jordan, May 9, 2015. Eager Lion is a recurring multinational exercise designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships, increase interoperability between partner nations, and enhance regional security and stability. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Devin Nichols/Released)

The mighty tank struggles to find a place on the modern battlefield amid drones, rockets

Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, left, Army Gen. Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff, center left, Ryan McCarthy, Acting Secretary of the Army, center right, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, participate in the Dignified Return for Sgt. 1st Class Elis Barreto Ortiz, 34, from Morovis, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Ortiz was killed in action Sept. 5, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ortiz was supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Army to spend billions on barracks upgrades

FILE - This Aug. 2, 1944 photo, courtesy of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, shows members of the famed WWII Army unit Merrill's Marauders less than 75 yards from enemy positions, on display during a gathering of remaining members, family and history buffs, in New Orleans. The unit that spent months marching and fighting behind enemy lines in Burma has been approved to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest honor. Nearly 3,000 soldiers began the unit's secret mission in Japanese occupied Burma in 1944. Barely 200 remained in the fight when their mission was completed five months later. (U.S. Army Signal Corps via AP, File)

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FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The specter of election chaos in the United States is raising questions about whether voting, vote-counting or the post-vote reaction could become so chaotic that the military would intervene. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Army: No requests made for use of troops around election

Associated Press In this image provided by the U.S. Army, recent Army basic combat training graduates have their temperatures taken as they arrive at Fort Lee, Va, on March 31, 2020, after being transported using sterilized buses from Fort Jackson, S.C. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on military recruiting, shuttering enlistment stations around the country and forcing thousands of recruiters to woo potential soldiers online. Recruiters have had to abandon their normal visits to high schools and malls, and instead rely almost exclusively on social media to reach young people. (U.S. Army via AP)

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U.S. Maj. Gen. James C. McConville, center, visits troops in Jalalabad, base east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

Army Chief of Staff cleared to return to the Pentagon following COVID-19 quarantine

File - In this Monday, July 27, 2020 file photo, Israeli medical workers operate a ventilation machine on a training mannequin during an exercise of the new COVID-19 department at Rambam Hospital in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Israel. The Israeli military opened a new coronavirus unit in a converted parking garage at the hospital in a first-of-its-kind effort by the army to assist the country's overloaded health care system, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

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Actor Tom Selleck served in the army as part of the California Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973

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In addition to refurbishing or building new homes for military families, the Army says it is going to spend nearly $10 billion over the next decade to repair barracks that house single soldiers.

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The military said the shooting had come from the Afghan side of the frontier.

Pakistan says roadside bomb kills 6 troops in border region →

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