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In this October 2014 police missing person police flier, made available by the Denver Police Department, Paul Kitterman, a fan who went missing from the Oct. 23, 2014 Broncos game, is pictured. (AP Photo/Denver Police Department)
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Chicago Bears defensive end Lamarr Houston, seated, holds his knee after injuring it while celebrating a sack on New England Patriots backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo with about 3 minutes left in an NFL football game on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots won 51-23. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this file photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, walks past Chinese President Xi Jinping as they arrive at the Monument to the People's Heroes during a ceremony marking Martyr's Day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai travels to China on Tuesday, Oct. 28, signaling the pivotal role he hopes Beijing will play in Afghanistan's future, not only in the economic reconstruction of his war-ravaged country after U.S. and allied combat troops leave by the end of the year but also in a strategic foreign policy aimed at building peace across a region long riven by mistrust and violence. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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National Edition News cover for October 27, 2014 - Green Berets give Afghans failing marks: Afghan national army forces stand guard at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 12, 2014. Afghan police and soldiers manned checkpoints at almost every intersection Thursday, searching vehicles and frisking drivers in a massive security operation ahead of elections to choose a new president to guide the country after international combat forces withdraw. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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An Afghan National Army soldier fires blanks with a belt-fed machine gun as other soldiers observe the training exercise. One Army officer who has had tours of duty in Afghanistan said, "When we leave, the ANA will scatter like leaves in a stiff breeze."
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An Afghan National Army helicopter flies over soldiers during a military training exercise at Kabul Military Training Center. The Pentagon's most recent progress report on Afghanistan in April said the Afghan National Army, first conceived in 2002, remains unable to sustain itself more than several days in the field. (Associated Press photographs)
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LAST LINE OF DEFENSE: Afghan National Army forces are not ready to rebuff an expected Taliban offensive, on its own, once all American troops leave after 2016, according to reports from U.S. Green Berets. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, U.S. Marine Pfc Joseph Scott Pemberton, a suspect in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino woman, is escorted to his detention as he arrives inside the compound of the Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines. American forces are guarding Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, yet a ring of Filipino troops surrounds them. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
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The 615th Engineer Company, 52nd Engineer Battalion will be deploying approximately 160 engineers to West Africa to help with the fight against Ebola. The soldiers will not be working directly with Ebola patients, but are receiving specific medical training to ensure they are protected from exposure to Ebola. Some of those soldiers were training those skills on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. A line of soldiers hold up their hands to show that they have finished putting on their second layer of gloves. They wear a total of three pairs of gloves. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)
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In this frame grab taken from video, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a televised address to the nation in Ottawa, Ontario, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/APTN, Pool)
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Iranians gathered outside a government building to protest the recent wave of acid attacks by gangs affiliated to the Iranian regime. (Image: National Council of Resistance of Iran)
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War Loot: Islamic State militants rummage through a cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish forces battling the extremist group in Kobani, Syria, but "now they are spoils for the mujahedeen," one militant said. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said that new restrictions travelers from West African countries impacted by Ebola will require the cooperation of airlines, which will have to funnel passengers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in to one of five U.S. airports. (Associated Press)
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Left to right: William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, Commanding General of U.S. Special Forces Command Brig. Gen. Darsie D. Rogers, and Sec. of the Army John McHugh participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Members of the green berets leave following a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event was is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Center left to right: Sec. of the Army John McHugh, Commanding General of U.S. Special Forces Command Brig. Gen. Darsie D. Rogers, and William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Left to right: Sec. of the Army John McHugh, Commanding General of U.S. Special Forces Command Brig. Gen. Darsie D. Rogers, and William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Left to right: William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, Commanding General of U.S. Special Forces Command Brig. Gen. Darsie D. Rogers, and Sec. of the Army John McHugh talk to each other after participating in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Left to right: Sec. of the Army John McHugh, Commanding General of U.S. Special Forces Command Brig. Gen. Darsie D. Rogers, and William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Members of the Old Guard march in two lines around The Eternal Flame during a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
