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Job in retaliation for coming forward. hca denies that profits motivated any decisions related to these accusations. two gunmen wearing afghan army uniforms today turned their weapons on nato troops killed an american service member and injured two others. this is but the latest in what appears to be a growing number of green on blue attacks. according to the associated press, 20 such attacks killed two dozen troops this year. that's compared to 20 deaths in all of last year. u.s. military officials say the attacks undermine trust between coalition fighters and afghan troops as international c...

Highly sophisticated computer systems that are designed to help soldiers find and dismantle road-side bombs. a republican lawmaker says the army covered up positive reviews of a product and refused to give it to the combat units. the congressman asked the house committee to investigate. reports indicate that those improvised explosive devices are responsible for more than half of all troop deaths in afghanistan. and mike emanuel, this doesn't make a lot of sense. when you say they found something that would help the troops. that does not pass the smell test. >>guest: the people who purchase eq...

Sergeants, the company commander is supposed to make sure doesn't happen. now, the other part of that question, though, these were young paratroopers who had just watched a suicide bomber accidentally blow himself up. this is the kind of macabre humor that is present in combat units, particularly after ten years of war. it contributes, i might add, though, to ongoing support for the ongoing operations in afghanistan. so the timing is unfortunate and it's an unfortunate incident. >> we certainly don't want to make excuses for what these images represent in terms of fanning the flames of hatred ...

and sharp and sudden turnaround by the obama administration. the white house now says it's tweaking the health care reform provision that sparked a sudden confrontation between church and state as well as republicans and democrats. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here in "the situation room" watching all of this unfold. it was pretty dramatic what happened. >> it was, and all of this caught the white house off-guard. there's no sign that the uproar is dying down. the president plays cleanup. >> they will not have to pay foror provide contraceptive services, but ...

Female service members will soon be able to serve in jobs closer to the front lines. abc's jonathan karl reports on the pentagon policy. >> reporter: later today the pentagon will make a major new announcement governing women in combat. right now women are not permitted to serve in combat units or in units operating on the front lines. but with the pentagon's announcement this will change, but only partly. the pentagon is opening up 14,000 jobs, most of them in the army, that have been closed off to women because of the ban on women in combat. the jobs will include those in areas of intelligen...