Beef Jerky NewsA top Afghan health ministry official supports moving injection drug users off heroin and onto methadone as a way to combat HIV/AIDS. “By stopping drug use, you stop HIV transmission in our community,” said Sayed Habib, the health ministry’s top drugs official.However, treatment programs are the target of organized criminals who earn money from the [...]
Tears as Warminster soldiers leave for Afghanistan on Valentine’s Day 2:00pm Friday 17th February 2012 in Skip social links Print Email Comments(0) Family and friends paid a teary farewell to soldiers as they left for Afghanistan on Valentine’s Day. Around 90 soldiers from the Corunna Company, of the 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, based at [...]
The Llano Estacado Buffalo Soldier Association in Roosevelt County is looking to recruit more active members. Portales city councilman Oscar Robinson and Portales resident Joe Terry, are the only active members of the group. The other board members were active in the organization of the group, but the time commitment and the physical requirements of [...]
FRANKFURT, Germany — An Islamic extremist who killed two U.S. airmen bound for Afghanistan at Frankfurt airport last year and injured two others was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on Friday. The state court in Frankfurt convicted 22-year-old Arid Uka of two counts of murder. It also found him guilty of [...]
All wars bring innovations — in weapons, and also in ways to repair the damage done. Penicillin is one of the more famous examples: It came into use as a treatment for troops in World War II. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought their own breakthroughs, none more dramatic than the prosthetics that [...]
Female soldier claims she was raped on base “No permission to sleep with me” at Lavarack Barracks Confrontation: “If I am pregnant, I will destroy you” a FEMALE soldier says a male soldier raped her at an Australian Army barracks while her boyfriend was deployed in Afghanistan. The 21-year-old claimed yesterday she was assaulted on [...]
They were the least respected military unit in the United States, but later became known as one of the greatest fighting forces in the West, despite being allocated the worst equipment, clothing, tools and horses the U.S. Army had to offer. But for African American men living in the post-Civil War era, joining the 9th [...]
LAKE FOREST – at 7, Cpl. Christopher Singer knew he wanted to be a Marine, his mother told more than 1,000 gathered at Saddleback Church on Friday. “The day Christopher left for Operation Enduring Freedom, he said ‘I love you Mommy,’” Marlene Shaw said. “I was not expecting this type of return. I know it [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army plans to slash the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32 in a broad restructuring of its fighting force aimed at cutting costs and reducing the service by about 80,000 soldiers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans. How those plans could affect Fort Carson, though, [...]
Sonya Lomax, a Massachusetts high school teacher, was denied three additional paid days off to welcome home her son, Army Spc. Todd Lomax, pictured above, who was gravely injured in Afghanistan. A Massachusetts school board has denied a teacher’s request for three paid days off to welcome home her soldier stepson who was seriously injured [...]
