If confirmed, he would be the first enlisted soldier, and first Vietnam veteran, to serve as our nation's Secretary of Defense.
Mark Vecchione of Eastham, Massachusetts became the first soldier from Cape Cod to die in combat in Iraq.
The first soldier died after consuming the opium like chewing tobacco and smoking pieces of it in a cigarette, the documents show.
Last month, I was privileged to present the parents of an American soldier, Sergeant First Class Jared Monti, with our nation's highest decoration for valor -- the Medal of Honor.
In expressing his condolences for the death of Jamie Janes, who died in Afghanistan on 5 October, Mr Brown appeared to correct the soldier's first name, as well as rushing the communique.
Now he was being told that the dead soldier was Private First Class Jay Cajimat, who was twenty years and two months old and who might have died immediately from the blast of the explosion, or a little more slowly in the resulting fire.
He is the first UK soldier to be killed in Afghanistan since January.
Prosecutors also looked into the email and phone accounts of Imad Ibn-Ziaten, the first slain soldier, to see whether he had been in contact with his killer.
Emanuel, a strategically rude, hyper sometime ballet dancer and former Israeli soldier who makes enemies first and friends later, is especially good at keeping Clinton in line.
The first US soldier to survive losing four limbs in Iraq has said he is looking forward to swimming and driving after having a double arm transplant.
The 34-year-old former soldier also becomes the first Briton to win two athletics golds in the same Games since Albert Hill did the 800-1, 500m double in 1920.
For example, the attack by Hamas operatives that resulted in the capture of the first Israeli soldier three weeks ago involved the digging of a tunnel hundreds of meters under border fences, coming up behind Israel Defense Forces (IDF) positions.
It is also one of the first places a soldier goes upon returning to the United States.
According to Bruce Bairnsfather, one of the most popular soldier-writers of the first world war, the Tommies were just as hardheaded.
He was the Special Forces soldier who, on his first tour in Afghanistan, earned two Army Commendation Medals for his valor.
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Among the six fatalities there, on July 1st came the death of Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, the first British Muslim soldier killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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Shortly after his capture, Chaplain Kapaun, with complete disregard for his personal safety and unwavering resolve, bravely pushed aside an enemy soldier preparing to execute Sergeant First Class Herbert A. Miller.
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On Sunday, an Israeli soldier was killed, marking the first military death since the ground operation launched Saturday night.
Marrocco is one of only seven people in the country to successfully undergo the surgery, and the first quadruple-amputee soldier, according to Johns Hopkins.
Though a loyal communist, Zhukov was first and foremost a soldier.
In the first incident, a soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles died in an explosion while on foot patrol near Nad Ali on Thursday afternoon, said Britain's Ministry of Defence.
The body of Nathan Chapman, the first U.S. soldier to die by enemy fire in Afghanistan, will return to his home in Fort Lewis, Washington, this week.
China, for the first time, sent its top soldier to the annual meeting -- General Liang Guanglie -- who spoke at length about China's peace-loving nature and focus on cooperative development and security in the region.
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At the first sign of trouble, an Israeli soldier says, the peacekeepers will turn tail and run.
Let me first use the example of an American soldier and why his fighting and possible death is NOT a sacrifice.
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During a lull in the fighting, Mr. Welch drew a sketch of the first man he killed, an Iraqi soldier he shot in the neck.
Though leaders of both the main parties stood shoulder to shoulder at a huge rally in Madrid on January 23rd to protest against the killing of a Spanish soldier by Basque terrorists two days earlier (the first such attack for 19 months), the mood of patriotic anger should help Mr Aznar.
When I went to Afghanistan the first time and was met by a young soldier from New York, in the 10th Mountain Division who told me that I was being welcomed to the forgotten frontlines in the war against terror, that just, you know, just struck me so forcefully.
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First Sergeant GABRA DOBOS (U.S. Soldier): See those rocks right over there off to the left-hand side, John?
And a soldier wounded in that battle who never recovered -- Sergeant First Class Kenneth Westbrook.
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