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WEST POINT — Two West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy’s first wedding between two men...

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The reason that we can tuck our little ones in at nightin peace is because of you," Osteen told the troops.Crusing at 37,000 feet is nothing new for Pastor Joel Osteen Jetting off to another night in another town has become common. But this trip is different because there is no airport, just an airfield. He is greeted by a different kind of welcoming committee, a decorated one. This is no church, but it is still holy ground. Custer, Eisenhower and MacArthur were at Fort Leavenworth, KS, training ground for the U.S. Army. Joel Osteen made a special trip for...

You may remember a few months back around Novemeber, I was going to join the Marines. I finally told my parents and they freaked but they comprmised. I talked to both the Marines and Army I felt the Army gave me the best opportunity to serve my country in the way I want.I joined the Delay Entry Program in which I was able to move up a rank before going to boot camp. I'll be a signal support specialist, I leave two weeks after my graduation for boot camp. I look forward to serving in Iraq or Afghanistan that's why...

Before Navy can retain the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy by beating Army on Saturday, the Midshipmen will first have to find it. The trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the football competition between the three major service academies, was stolen Monday night from the team locker room, Navy spokesman Scott Strasemeier said Wednesday. The trophy had been on display in a locked glass case for the past two years at Bancroft Hall, the school's dormitory. It was moved to the football building to provide motivation for the players, but sometime after 9:30 p.m., the 170-pound trophy was taken from the locked...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Valley Press Editor Dennis Anderson, who embedded with a California National Guard unit deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom last year, has rejoined them as they near the one-year mark in Iraq and Kuwait. CAMP VICTORY, Kuwait - It was nearly Easter Sunday and Sgt. John O'Hern declared a small victory in Operation Iraqi Freedom. "I managed to send flowers home to my wife and daughter," O'Hern said, grinning. During his tour, O'Hern, of the Riverside area, managed a couple of other small victories. He alerted the higher levels of command, right up to Congress, that National Guard troops...

CAMP VICTORY, KUWAIT - "The Things They Carried" was the title of a well-known Vietnam war reminiscence by Al Santoli that told the story of the war by describing the things the soldiers carried. Almost a year after deployment to Kuwait and Iraq, the tales brought home by soldiers of the California National Guard are among the things they carry. They carry other things, too. Laptop computers. Cell phones with expensive overseas "minutes plans." An endless succession of liter bottles of "Haji" water, mineral water bottled in Gulf states. Kool-Aid and Tang to flavor the water. Of course, DVD movies...

"VOA - Stock market rumors that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been captured have sparked a flurry of questions at the Pentagon."