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Midshipman Jessica Wilcox, center, responds to a reporter's question at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, May 6, 2010. Wilcox is one of 11 women selected to begin training to become submarine officers this summer in a program that takes at least 15 months. They will report for duty aboard a submarine by 2012. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt) (AP)

Life on a Submarine

Bob Rubin cuddle party

Kimberly Hefling

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Why we can't make Iran do what we want

Pauline Jelinek, Anne Flaherty

Associated Press

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 05: U.S. Army soldiers from the 3-17 Field Artillery fire a 155mm Howlitzer at a Taliban observation point on March 5, 2010 from Forward Operating Base Frontenac in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. The U.S. military is expected to launch a major offensive against Taliban insurgents in Kandahar in upcoming months following its recent operation in Marja, in neighboring Helmand province. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) (John Moore)

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A troubled soldier's tragic end

Mark Benjamin, Michael de Yoanna

Telling what's what in Afghanistan

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Left to right: Gen. Stanley McChrystal, DEA agent Jeffrey Sweetin, and President Obama.

A Pakistani police officer looks at remains of a vehicle destroyed by a bomb explosion in Lower Dir, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Three U.S. soldiers traveling with Pakistan security force members were killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing near a girl's school in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani security officials said. Other casualties included school children. (AP Photo/ Naveed Ali) (AP)

U.S. soldiers patrol through the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Many Afghans were still sleeping when President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said NATO and U.S. forces would hand over responsibility for securing the country to the Afghan security forces "as rapidly as conditions allow." Obama said if conditions are right, U.S. troops could begin leaving Afghanistan in 18 months. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (Associated Press)

Obama gets real

President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

What (sort of) worked in Iraq won't in Afghanistan

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This photo from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Web Site shows Nidal Malik Hasan.

The media got the Fort Hood shooting wrong

An army official holds a press briefing on the shooting at Fort Hood

Left: Abu Sayyaf rebels are seen in the Philippines in this video grab made available February 6, 2009. Right: U.S. soldiers help a comrade wounded in the leg during a gun-battle with Taliban fighters in the village of Bargematal, Nuristan province, August 23, 2009.

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General Stanley McChrystal, Commander, US Forces Afghanistan delivers a speech in London, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

Afghan National Army soldiers stand in formation during a deployment drill ahead of Afghanistan's Presidential elections in their base near the village of Pashad in Kunar province, August 15, 2009.

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