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[personal profile] bibliofile 2019-01-14 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Finally, the scoop about fortune cookies!
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[personal profile] kengr 2019-01-15 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Is the Army botching its investigations into noncombatant deaths?

That should be "non-combat deaths".

Non-combat deaths are deaths of military personnel who were not engaged in combat at the time (usually they have to be in a non-combat *zone* as it's too easy to get killed by the enemy in a combat zone as your first clue that combat is occurring).

Non-combatant deaths are deaths of people who are neither soldiers nor "insurgents".
Basically, folks who shouldn't have died.

Thus I was expecting a *very* different article. Likely one about investigating deaths from drone strikes.