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ICE Drops Deportation Threat Against Chinese Student Joining U.S. Army

5:02am June 15, 2018

by Quil Lawrence

The immigrants were brought into the military — which offers a track to citizenship — because they provide hard-to-find skills and languages. A slow-moving vetting program had put their visas at risk.

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Human Interest

Former U.S. Official, Winston-Salem Native Togo West Dies

9:40am March 16, 2018

by David Ford

A Triad native who became the second African-American to serve as Army secretary has died.

U.S. soldiers with actors portraying Afghan officials as part of their training to be advisers.

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Soldiers, With Empathy: U.S. Army Creates Dedicated Adviser Brigades

1:48pm February 27, 2018

by Jay Price

The Army has deployed advisers to foreign military forces for decades. But it has been an ad hoc assignment with mixed success. Now the Army is forming brigades specifically trained to be advisers.

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These photographs, taken at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., show the forearms of several test subjects after they were exposed to nitrogen mustard and lewisite agents during World War II experiments conducted at the lab.

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Army To Provide Medical Care For Thousands Of Veterans Who Were Test Subjects

3:21pm November 14, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Veterans who were research subjects in chemical and biological testing from 1942 to 1975 can receive care, but critics say the service is still withholding details about the tests it conducted.

Images provided by the U.S. Army of soldiers killed in Niger show, from left, Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, of Puyallup, Wash.; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39, of Springboro, Ohio; Sgt. La David Johnson of Miami Gardens, Fla.; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M

U.S. Official: Niger Ambush Of U.S. Troops Was 'Set Up' By Villagers

7:53am October 26, 2017

by Scott Neuman

NPR has learned that when the patrol of U.S. and Niger troops stopped at a village, they got "the cold stare" from locals who are believed to have tipped off extremist forces.