FORT HOOD is one of the largest army bases in America, sprawling over more than 300 square miles (some 780 square kilometres) of nondescript central Texas grassland between Austin and Waco.

胡德堡是美国最大的军事基地之一，在位于奥斯汀和韦科市之间德州中部的草原上，占地超过300平方英里(约780平方公里)。

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America has some 1.5m men and women under arms, including nearly 700, 000 in the army and Marine corps.

美国的武装力量有150万男男女女，包括陆军和海军陆战队的大约70万人。

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America is actively supporting the hunt for four rebel leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, which continues to wreak havoc in the region.

美国正在积极支持追捕乌干达上帝抵抗军的四名领导人，这支武装继续肆虐于这个地区。

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"And the faces in this stadium show a simple truth: America's Army represents the full breadth of America's experience.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Benjamin was a lawyer. He had been a General in the Union Army during America's Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

He became an officer in the Army during America's war with Mexico in the late eighteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

America's army chiefs were right to use their influence to restrain Egypt's armed forces from shooting into the crowds (see article).

ECONOMIST: Qaddafi and his ilk

Yet America's army and the Afghan government have collected digital records of more than 2.5m of them.

ECONOMIST: Biometric data and the Afghan war

The data are passed on beyond Afghanistan, to America's army, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

ECONOMIST: Biometric data and the Afghan war