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Video: How SEAL Team 6 rescued hostages from Somalia

The Navy SEALs caught the kidnappers by surprise, parachuting to the ground two miles away from their target. They killed all nine of the kidnappers, and rescued Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted who had been held since October 2011. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports. (Nightly News)

A different kind of fight

Specialist Jacob Gregory Swanson enlisted in the Army right out of high school. He did tours of duty parachuting into both Iraq and Afghanistan until 2004. He returned to his home at Fort Bragg, N.C. a decorated war veteran.

Cowell gives ITV an Electra shock by bringing former Baywatch star on to Britain's Got Talent panel

Inside the box with Dan Wootton: All the TV gossip you won't find anywhere else.

'Jumping Jay' lives for the free-fall

Jay Fragoso, 72 and retired, works part-time to help finance his parachuting hobby.