Mark Vecchione of Eastham, Massachusetts became the first soldier from Cape Cod to die in combat in Iraq.
If confirmed, he would be the first enlisted soldier, and first Vietnam veteran, to serve as our nation's Secretary of Defense.
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.
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.
It is also one of the first places a soldier goes upon returning to the United States.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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First Sergeant GABRA DOBOS (U.S. Soldier): See those rocks right over there off to the left-hand side, John?
The first attack came on March 11, when a soldier who had advertised a motorcycle for sale went to meet a potential buyer.
Mabunda was first exposed to weapons through his uncle, a soldier in the ruling party's military wing, when he was only seven years old.
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The inquiry also heard that the police concluded that the first killing had been Murder - but no soldier had been held to account.
Israeli officials say their first priority now is securing the release of the captured soldier, either by mediation or by an Israeli military operation.
Brenda Hoster, the first woman to accuse the Army's top enlisted soldier of sexual misconduct, testified at a military hearing to determine whether the Army goes ahead with a court-martial against McKinney.
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"They made their way in to the Chancellery, the Russians had been there first, there was a lot of looting and the soldier and members of his unit took themselves a little souvenir of the event, " said Mr Copson.
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It's not the first time I've seen the remains of a dead soldier from that conflict.
In 1927, the zoo was replaced with the first giant helium balloons, including Felix the Cat and Toy Soldier.
When Lewis first saw Buchenwald, he was a young man but an experienced soldier.
And a soldier wounded in that battle who never recovered -- Sergeant First Class Kenneth Westbrook.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British soldier has died in fighting in southern Iraq -- the first British combat fatality of the campaign.
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