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The people seen crashing the gates weren't running for their lives, they were running to their seats for a football game.

Technology is awesome. And not just because it helps us play Words With Friends on our phone when we’re bored at work. It also allowed Specialist Brock Howland to witness the birth of his son.

It's a tough thing when family members have to say goodbye when a loved one - who is soldier - goes off to Afghanistan. It's also tough on pets. Here's an especially happy homecoming when a soldier arrives home from Afghanistan to his adoring dog.

Donny Eslinger, a U.S. Soldier on tour of duty in Afghanistan, adopted an adorable dog that he named Smoke-pup Barbarian. But after Eslinger was critically wounded during a mortar attack and shipped to Germany, he was forced to leave his dog behind.

By: Shauna Wright In a Pentagon news conference on Wednesday, Marine Corps Gen. John Allen said international forces killed the Taliban fighters that shot down a Chinook helicopter last weekend, killing 38 US and Afghan forces. The top insurgent leader remains at large and other details are vague, but a statement from the International Security Assistance Force said, “After an exhaustive manhunt,

Editor's Note: This post has been updated to reflect that 30 American troops were killed in the attack, rather than 31, as initially reported. Taliban insurgents shot down an American military helicopter in Afghanistan Saturday, killing 30 American troops, 7 Afghan commandos, and an interpreter multiple news outlets are reporting.