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An off-duty Cook County sheriff's deputy can be seen using a man he shot as a human shield in surveillance video of a gunfight in Chicago nearly three years ago.

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The last of three Washington National Guard soldiers who swapped a live M72A5 LAW rocket and launcher among themselves after returning from Afghanistan has been hit with probation this week.

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A colleague of mine recently felt the need to warn me that she was about to puncture the plastic cover of her microwave meal with her plastic knife.

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I see three main areas of debate that opponents will use to prevent troops from being armed at a much more generous level off- and on- base.

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The VA wants to study the brains of individuals when they are both living and deceased in an effort to better understand – and in turn diagnose and treat – a variety of mental health conditions.

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"Honestly, I think it's the perfect time and the perfect thing," Gliba said. "I didn't know if I was going to go back into this major depression where I'd stop talking to people again and go back to the crying mode."

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Allen Megginson said he hopes they will have the opportunity to use the home to help other veterans in need, by hosting family cookouts and creating a woodworking shop for therapeutic purposes.

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Routh, a former Marine, ended an almost eight-month Kuwait and Iraq tour in early 2008 and deployed on a humanitarian aid mission to an earthquake-ravaged Haiti in 2010, according to service documents obtained by Warfighter News, a reporting organization made up of combat veterans and their family members.

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Two forensic psychologists took the stand Friday in the capital murder trial of Eddie Ray Routh, accused of killing famed “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and fellow veteran Chad Littlefield at a Texas shooting range two years ago.

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The state of Texas was granted a motion to photograph the tattoos of Eddie Ray Routh, the alleged killer of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle.

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The trial will hear witnesses testimonies in the coming months, many of whom will be questioned about several points brought up regarding Routh’s past.

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The prosecution contends that Routh is claiming PTSD, but could be malingering or manipulating the legal system, as evidenced by the veteran making the claim each of the several times he was arrested in the past.

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