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The pivotal role of military service dogs
Luis Carlos Montalvan, former U.S. Army Captain and author of, "Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him" speaks with CNN's American Morning about how essential military dogs are on the battleground and off. Tuesday even shows us exactly how.
Seals' downed helicopter uniquely designed for stealth
The remnants of the Seals' helicopter that went down in Sunday's mission at Osama Bin Laden's compound reveal a helicopter model that is unknown to aviation experts. The military likely designed the helicopter differently than other known models for stealth reasons. William Sweetman, Editor-In-Chief of Aviation Week's Defense Technology International, talks to American Morning about the never before seen helicopter.
Obama reverses stance on Gitmo
On his second full day in office, President Obama signed an executive order that would shut down the prison within a year, but the President is now saying the U.S. will resume military tribunals for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin talks about Obama's political change of heart with Kiran Chetry and T.J. Holmes.
Operation Pizza Bowl: Bringing pizza to patriots on game day
The Super Bowl is around the corner and, as is custom, many Americans will be chowing down on pizza.
But it's a little harder for service men and women thousands of miles away to order a slice–and that's where Mark Evans comes in. Evans is the Founder of Pizza 4 Patriots, an organization which delivers pizza to America's service men and women overseas. In partnership with UNO and DHL, Pizza 4 Patriots will be sending 7,000 pizzas to service members on Super Bowl Sunday. The pizzas will leave from JFK Airport on a special DHL flight to Bahrain and, from there, they will either go to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Mark Evans tells CNN's T.J. Holmes about Pizza 4 Patrios.
NFL greats tailgate, play ball with troops in Iraq
College football post-season and bowl game season is well underway. Over the next month you will see some of the best college teams match up across the country. Bowl games are usually highly publicized, commercialized and televised events. There is one unofficial bowl game, though, that you probably have never heard of.
That's because this game, the "Connect to Home" Bowl, is being played at an undisclosed location in Iraq with NFL and college football greats of the past and American troops currently stationed there.
This morning on American Morning, AM's Kiran Chetry talks to Hall of Fame quarterback with the Buffalo Bills Jim Kelly and former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, who are helping lead the event. Kelly and Peete will play quarterback on opposing teams. Catch the sneak peak practice video here. And, be sure to watch highlights of the game during halftime at the 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on January 1, and at www.facebook.com/Tostitos.
Lifting gay ban during war poses little risk to troops, study finds
There's new evidence on the effects of lifting the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that bans gays from openly serving in uniform.
The military can lift the ban with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to a Pentagon study group, which will deliver a final report to President Obama on Dec. 1.
The study worked off results of the surveys 400,000 active-duty and reserve troops took over the summer. About 70 percent of the respondents said the effect of repealing DADT would be positive, mixed or nonexistent, according to Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe, who has read the draft report.
He gives a more detailed look of what’s inside the report today on American Morning.
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