Hawaii: President Barack Obama called the six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan on Monday outstanding and brave as he thanked American service members on Friday during a Christmas Day visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kanoehe Bay.


"Even though we have been able to reduce the number of folks we`re deploying to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, there are still folks over there every single day and it`s still dangerous as we saw this past week with the outstanding, brave men and women who were killed," Obama said.