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Mireille Knoll, 85, was killed inside her Paris apartment before it was set ablaze on March 23, 2018. The Holocaust survivor was stabbed several times prior to her death. (Image: Facebook, Meyer Habib, French lawmaker, screenshot)
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Rebel flag (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)
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Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport vehicles will arrive with two brigade combat teams this year for testing. (Image: U.S. Army)
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The Mike Pompeo era of no-nonsense diplomacy is unlikely to explode into another series of Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam-style military expeditions. (Associated Press)
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Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of Combined Forces Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that any war with North Korea would be bloody, with its capability to produce chemical weapons. (Associated Press/File)
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This undated photo from a Facebook posting shows Mark Anthony Conditt. The suspect in the deadly bombings that terrorized Austin blew himself up early Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as authorities closed in on him, bringing a grisly end to a manhunt. (Facebook via AP)
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A Marine with 2nd Platoon, Company B., Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, crawls through a watery ditch and under concertina wire during the Jungle Endurance Course here, April 20. After completing a two-week training evolution at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, the Marines underwent the four-mile-long course through the Okinawan jungle, utilizing the rappelling, rope-crossing, improvised stretcher carry and other skills they learned. The 31st MEU is the only continuously forward-deployed MEU and remains the nation’s force in readiness in the Asia-Pacific region.
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February 15, 2011, A U.S. Marine with Company E, Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), sights in with his weapon during a patrol through the jungle in Recon Camp, Kingdom of Thailand, in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2011. For three decades, Thailand has hosted Cobra Gold, one of the largest land-based, joint, combined military training exercises in the world. A successful Cobra Gold 2011 results in increased operational readiness of U.S. and Thai forces and matured military to military relations between the two countries. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl Brennan O'Lowney/Released)
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A Marine splashes as he makes his way through an obstacle course at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 21. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Combat Camera and the Provost Marshal Office are training at the center to become effective fighters in a jungle environment.
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One of the obstacles in the endurance course is climbing over rope netting and then crossing over balance beams. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle, which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.
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Marines from 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, combat crawl and monkey crawl on steel cables across a ravine in the jungle as part of the endurance course. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle, which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.
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Marines from 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, climb out of a river during the endurance course. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle, which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.
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First Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, lift each other over a 12-foot obstacle during the endurance course. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.
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Staff Sgt. Trevor R. Moree, a Summerville, South Carolina native and platoon sergeant of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, rappels down a cliff at the Jungle Warfare Training Center aboard Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, July 12, 2017. The Jungle Warfare Training Center provides individual and unit level training to increase survivability and lethality while operating in a jungle environment. The Hawaii-based battalion is forward deployed to Okinawa, Japan as part of the Unit Deployment Program. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson)
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Lance Cpl. Kanta C. Covey, a Kadena, Okinawa native and mortarman assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, jumps into a river during the endurance course, aboard Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, July 7, 2017.The Jungle Warfare Training Center provides individual and unit level training to increase survivability and lethality while operating in a jungle environment. The Hawaii-based battalion is forward deployed to Okinawa, Japan as part of the Unit Deployment Program. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson/Released)
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Pfc. Beto Chavarria sucks the blood from the head of a python in a jungle survival course during Malaysia-United States Amphibious Exercise 2015. Chavarria is an automatic rifleman with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. During the course, Marines learned how to trap, clean, and cook wild life. The purpose of the exercise was to strengthen military cooperation in the planning and execution of amphibious operations between Malaysian armed forces and U.S. Marines. The 15th MEU is currently deployed in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to promote regional stability and security in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Emmanuel Ramos/Released)
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Lance Cpl. George Redhead, a native of San Jose, Calif., low crawls through the muddy water of the "pit-and-pond" section of the endurance course April 17 at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves. The jungle is vastly different from the desert terrain many Marines have been training in for the past decade, according to Kao. The jungle does not allow for significant mechanized or motorized movements, which forces Marines to hone their dismounted warfighting abilities. Redhead is a rifleman with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion currently assigned to Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, under the unit deployment program. Kao is a native of Vancouver, Wash., and is the camp commander for Camp Gonsalves, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Marine Corps Installations Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Stephen D. Himes/Released)
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Illustration on school choice fro military families by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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An Austin police officer talks with a woman at a barrier near the site of Sunday's explosion, Monday, March 19, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Multiple people were injured in the explosion Sunday night, and police warned nearby residents to remain indoors overnight as investigators looked for possible links to other package bombings elsewhere in the city this month. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
