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 Marines in North Carolina have scheduled an exercise that mirrors a shooting rampage last year at the Army s Fort Hood in Texas in which 13 people were killed.The exercise, called   stanley website Urgent Response 2010,  will b stanley thermos e held at Camp Lejeune on Wednesday and Thursday. The scenario features a shooter in a simulated attack that will result in mass casualties and a hostage situation.Complete Coverage: Tragedy at Fort hoodCamp Lejeune conducts a mass casualty exercise every year, but officials said they added the shooter scenario this year because of the incident at Fort Hood.The Army has charged Major Nidal Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shootings.        More coverage of the tragedy at Fort Hood: Senate, Pentagon Battle over Fort Hood Documents  Store Video May Show Shooter  Ft. Hood Suspect ID d as Army Psychiatrist  Soldier Opens Fire at Ft. Hood; 13 Dead   Anti-Muslim Backlash Immediate  Sources: Hasan Web Posts Drew FBI Interest   Fort Hood Rampage Suspect Sill Alive   What w stanley italia as Shooter s Motive    U.S. Army Base Violence Has Bloody History   Obama: Fort Hood Shooting  Horrific    Fast Facts: Fort Hood  Tragedy at Fort Hood                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5  {        display: none;      }       inline-recirc-item--id-950fdec4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-950fdec4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d {        displ Snew As Wars Drag On, Military Divorces Go Up
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 The 11-year-old boy lost for four days in a mountain wilderness was released from a hospital Wednesday, and his joyful father says he  continues to amaze us. Brennan Hawkins was found Tuesday by a 43-year-old house painter on an ATV who was out looking on his own, miles outside of active search grids.Brennan left Primary Children s Medical Center in Salt Lake City not lo stanley cup ng after midnight, said Bonnie Midget, a hospital spokeswoman. Doctors had said they wanted to keep him at least overnight for tests, said Dr. Ed Clark, the hospital s medical director. Brennan continues to amaze us,  his father, Toby Hawkins, said at a news conference outside their home.  You know, his ability to deal with this initially, I made the comment that I thought that he was the most ill-prepared out of our five children to deal with it, and now I think he was maybe the best prepared. Brennan, described by his parents as stanley cups  a spirited child who loves collecting Pokemon cards, apparently eluded thousands of searchers by defying conventional wisdom: He went up instead of down.        His parents said always been told two things: stay close to the trail, and keep away from strangers. They said Brennan focused on those two things during the four days and nights he was missing.His mother added that the boy s personality  hasn t changed one bit  -- and that he stanley cup  was making jokes and asking about his Pokeman cards soon after he was found.Toby and Jody Hawkins also described what they were doing when word came th Zruu Verizon scraps $2 fee for one-time payments
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