Beef Jerky NewsJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD — Joint Base Lewis-McChord saw more suicides in 2011 than any previous year. Twelve suicides were recorded at the base this past year. That’s up from nine in 2010 and nine in 2009, the News Tribune in Tacoma reported. Army I Corps spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield says the total could grow [...]
I'd like to know how is more physically fit a soldier or a professional athlete? I'd also like to know why one would be more fit than the other, I'd personally think that a soldier should be fittest because of the efficiency that a soldier should have to fight in combat. A soldier IS a [...]
I'm curious as to what shaped the areas of Afghanistan from Late Cretaceous Epoch to present time I know it's present climatic conditions are due to it being in the horse latitudes but what shaped it's topographic features, what geomorphic processes and shaped the subsequent landscape 125,000 yrs ago what kind of environment was Afghanistan? [...]
I want to see a map that shows how Iraq and Afghanistan is divided up between all the other countries. What are you talking about? Control and other countries? neither is under anyone's control we have troops in both nations How much of Iraq/Afghanistan is under American control compared to other countries?
WASHINGTON—more than a thousand Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder would be given lifetime disability retirement benefits such as military health insurance under the terms of a settlement reached between the government and the veterans. Attorneys for the veterans, the Justice Department and the military jointly filed a motion on Thursday that spelled [...]
In testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, DefenseSecretary Robert Gates said that theUnited States has an interest in keeping troops in Iraq beyond 2011, citing thesecurity problems that the Iraqi government would face in the event of acomplete U.S. withdrawal. Under questioning from Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Gates said that the U.S. government stillplans to [...]
MONROE, Conn. (WTNH) – a soldier who is on active duty in Iraq has been granted leave to spend Valentines day with his wife in Monroe. Tonight we have a story of true love. a wife ia getting ready to meet her husband, who is in the air right now flying back for Valentines Day [...]
Soldiers from the new River Valley, Southside, and Lynchburg will be part of a group heading to Iraq in two weeks, to help with the draw down of U.S. Forces. The Army says 78 soldiers of the 275th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion based out of Fort Lee will mobilize for deployment on February 16th, and [...]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Al-Maliki isn’t enthusiastic about a U.S. presence after 2011 The new government can pursue a new security agreement Deadly violence has declined (CNN) — Next year at this time, the United States is to withdraw all of its troops from Iraq, the scheduled end of a turbulent chapter in U.S. and Iraqi military [...]
Font Size: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) — “This is Michael when he was a baby. You can see he started out being a marine,” said Sissy Sowders. Sowders walks down memory lane of her son Michael Burress. He died in a single car crash on I-640 just days before Christmas. Back at home, flags fly at [...]
