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military

adjective as in soldierlike; concerning the armed forces

noun as in armed force

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The government had assumed the regular forces were the police and federal agents, but a law professor said the regular forces in the original law referred to the military.

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The show follows a shy new transfer student at a corporate military school where recruits train and settle disputes in giant mech suit combat.

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The military has been scrubbed of many Black officers.

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The military branch is “supporting the U.S. Marshals Service and multiple local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force,” Moriarty said.

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In short, individuals historically have been shuffled between the military court-martial system, the civilian court system and the criminal justice system, especially in high-profile cases challenging controversial practices like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and extrajudicial killing.

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