Word: fatalities
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...They bring the war home with them, but often they?re not the people they were when they left - once a civilian, now a killing machine. "There?s an old saying," Nguyen adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes the transition is fatal. When Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq, his loving family noticed the change, his withdrawal inside his troubled skull. Within a few months, he had put a loop in a garden hose and hanged himself. Only death ended his nightmares...
...Inside the building, a fierce gun battle left the suspect with fatal multiple gunshot wounds. The shooter was found with three firearms, including one automatic gun, Delorme said...
...British-built Slingsby T-3A Firefly was selected in 1992 to replace the T-41 aircraft. It was a more demanding plane, designed to weed out poor pilots. But after the three fatal crashes, the service grounded the planes in 1997. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," Merrill McPeak, the general running the Air Force when the program began, told TIME several months later. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco." But the Air Force disagreed, and ultimately ended the more demanding flight-training program that General McPeak had championed...
...TIME brought the matter to national attention to, but the Air Force this week concluded that's what its fleet of T-3 trainers really is. It made the decision to scrap the fleet altogether nine years after the Air Force grounded the planes in the wake of three fatal accidents - each of which killed a highly trained Air Force instructor pilot and a fledging Air Force pilot...
...Some evidence suggests that the sniper was a Syrian man who worked in the building from which the fatal shot was fired, and who may have had al-Qaeda sympathies. The FBI investigates other leads, but, as with the events after 9/11, Dick Cheney, now President, uses the tenuous al-Qaeda connection to push his own harsh agenda. He calls for a Patriot Act 3, suspending most civil liberties, and for military engagement with Syria. An already grotesque world situation keeps growing tesquer...