The suspect, a U.S. Army staff sergeant from a Stryker brigade based in Fort Lewis, Wash.
Wiggins served as Army staff sergeant in the Philippines and Japan during World War II.
Weeks later, a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant was accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children.
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In the afternoon, the President will award Clinton Romesha, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.
It was Army Staff Sergeant Johnnie Mason of Rio Vista, Texas.
The fifteenth principle could also be heard in the White House on November 16, 2010, when President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore A. Giunta.
In March 2003, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Clint Douglas, a former Peace Corps volunteer, was deployed to Afghanistan with the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Illinois National Guard, for more than six months.
Robert Bales, the U.S. Army staff sergeant charged with murder in the killings of 16 Afghan civilians, plans to plead guilty in a deal with military prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The photos' release comes on top of several incidents that have angered Afghans, including a video of Marines urinating on the bodies of insurgents, the burning of the Qurans at Bagram Air Base and the killing of 17 Afghan civilians allegedly at the hands of an American Army staff sergeant.
In February 2005, forty-one-year-old U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis witnessed the aftermath of a late-night crash involving a nineteen-ton Stryker armored vehicle (call sign "Rattlesnake Six-Seven") and a small car.
Staff Sergeant AHMED (Iraqi Army): (Through translator) If you listen, you can hear the firefights.
Having been a former staff sergeant in the United States Army 30 years ago, I asked what they were doing in Estonia.
For example, she shared the story of Staff Sergeant Shaun Murphy, an Army veteran who taught sixth grade special education in Delaware for Teach for America.
Staff Sergeant Justin DeCrow joined the Army right after high school, married his high school sweetheart, and had served as a light wheeled mechanic and satellite communications operator.
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Staff Sergeant LARRY GREGORY (US Army): All right.
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This afternoon in the East Room of the White House, the President presented the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Army -- the first living servicemember from the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to receive it.
WHITEHOUSE: Medal of Honor for Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta
At an old Soviet army base, tucked along mountain foothills here, American Marines, like Staff Sergeant Roy Brady, Jr.
The U.S. Army continued to promote Maupin, who was a private first class in the Army Reserves at the time of his capture, to sergeant and then staff sergeant as they searched for him.
Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
Investigators soon identified the Army section that had been at the police station's small arms range, and a staff sergeant, a sniper section leader from the 64th Armor Regiment, was the primary suspect.
While conducting a combat reconnaissance patrol through the Gowardesh Valley, Staff Sergeant Miller and his small element of U.S. and Afghan National Army soldiers engaged a force of 15 to 20 insurgents occupying prepared fighting positions.
WHITEHOUSE: Medal of Honor for Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller
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