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Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Military Police Corps. In November 1975, Tureaud was awarded a letter of recommendation by his drill sergeant, and in a cycle of six thousand troops Tureaud was elected "Top Trainee of the Cycle" and was also promoted to squad leader. In July 1976, Tureaud's platoon sergeant punished him by giving him the detail of chopping down trees during training camp at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but did not tell him how many trees, so Tureaud single-handedly chopped down over seventy trees from 6:30 am to 10:00 am, until a shocked major superseded the sergeant's orders. Mr. T prepares for battle. (AP Photo/Derrik J. Lang)

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Actor, director and comedian Mel Brooks attended the Army Specialized Training Program conducted at the Virginia Military Institute, and served in the United States Army as a corporal in the 1104 Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division defusing land mines during World War II. Golden Globes nominee Mel Brooks arrives for the NBC Universal/Focus Features after-party following the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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This photo released in a statement by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 shows the Taliban fighters who stormed a military-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, killing more than 140 people, most of them children. In an email on Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army has allegedly long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters. (AP Photo/Pakistani Taliban handout)

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Ben Carson takes a closer look inside a terrorist tunnel along the Gaza Strip. (Photo from Armstrong Williams Productions)

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Image: Twitter, The Islamic State group

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Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus is defending his participation in a police brutality protest where he appeared in uniform holding a "#BlackLivesMatter" sign. (KPIX 5)

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Chairs are upturned and blood stains the floor at the Army Public School auditorium the day after Taliban gunmen stormed the school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan mourned as the nation prepares for mass funerals Wednesday for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in the Taliban massacre in a military-run school in the country’s northwest in the deadliest and most horrific attacks in years, officials said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Young targets: Hospital security guards carried out the dead and wounded after the Taliban launched one of the most deadly terrorist attacks ever in Pakistan. Gunmen stormed an army-run school that teaches children in grades one through 10. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, in London. Kerry condemned the terrorist attack in Peshawar that killed at least one hundred people, most of them children, and discussed a U.N. resolution that would set a two-year timetable for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2004 file photo, U.S. and Belgian World War II veterans salute during a wreath laying ceremony at the Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe memorial in Bastogne, Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, a last-ditch German offensive on Dec. 16, 1944 which was the bloodiest land battle of WWII involving US troops, who suffered some 80,000 casualties, including 19,000 killed. A tour taking place in December 2014 that’s connected to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is taking three dozen people to the battlefields and towns in Belgium where the Battle of the Bulge was fought 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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A girl lays flowers in a makeshift memorial near the site where a gunman held hostages for 16 hours at a popular Sydney cafe, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. The siege ended early Tuesday with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the Iranian-born gunman dead, and a nation that has long prided itself on its peace rocked to its core. (AP Photo/Steve Christo)

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, called her committee's findings on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities after the 9/11 terror attacks a "stain on the nation's history." However, following the 9/11 attacks, Mrs. Feinstein herself said that, "We have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves." (Associated Press)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, accompanied Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left, greets President Barack Obama upon his arrival on Air Force One, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., where the president was expected to speak to troops. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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In this Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, photo, Shiite faithful pilgrims gather between the holy shrine of Imam Hussein and the holy shrine of Imam Abbas, in the background, during the preparations for the Muslim festival of Arbaeen in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. The holiday marks the end of the 40-day mourning period after the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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The now closed Camp X-Ray was used as the first detention facility for al Qaeda and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Obama signed an executive order in his first days in office setting a deadline to close the prison within a year. Next month he will be five years delinquent, facing the prospect of finishing his term in 2017 without having met his goal. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for December 13, 2014 - House intel chief: Threats rising, Obama failing in terror war: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., listens to witnesses during a full committee hearing on the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), al-Qa'ida, and other Islamic extremists, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)