CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2008 - Multinational Division Center leaders held a roundtable on Camp Victory to discuss Iraq’s agricultural economy.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2008 - Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley pinned on his fourth star and became chief of the National Guard Bureau in a ceremony at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2008 - With the Defense Department’s observance of Warrior Care Month as a backdrop, the Army’s top medical officer reflected on some of the warriors he has met and the lessons of courage and strength he has gained from them while serving as commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and later as Army surgeon general and commander of Army Medical Command.
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 18, 2008 - In the years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Army has revamped its combat medic training to produce a new breed of medic, trained by combat veterans with a battle-focused curriculum that has evolved alongside the fight.
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Nov. 17, 2008 - U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Twillie Curry traded in his dream of becoming a professional football player for another dream of becoming a professional soldier.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was shocked by a pirate attack on a Saudi Arabian supertanker 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - After a year of operating in two of Baghdad’s most historically violent districts, coalition forces are beginning to see the effects of a more confident Iraqi government and Iraqi security force.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - Americans need to have a serious debate about what it takes to defend the United States, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a Pentagon news conference.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - All American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011 under the status of forces agreement between the United States and Iraq, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE WAR EAGLE, Iraq, Nov. 17, 2008 - The memory of a fallen comrade lives on, thanks to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Nov. 17, 2008 - Medical professionals from the United States, Egypt and Korea have partnered to train Afghan doctors.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - After weeks of struggle to reach an agreement, an important next step has been made for U.S. troops to continue operations in Iraq in 2009, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 17, 2008 - Navy Senior Chief Jim Pitts was not exactly what the doctor ordered when the leaders of Safe Harbor called and interviewed him for a job to be an advocate for wounded warriors.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - Overseas-deployed servicemembers can receive video “shout-outs†from home, as well as senior-leader messages, thanks to the new TroopTube online information service, according to military officials.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - Coalition and Iraqi troops captured an Iranian-backed militant, seized a weapons cache and dismantled a hidden bomb in Baghdad, military officials reported.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces killed 38 militants in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, military officials reported.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - Just in time for Thanksgiving, 14 musical acts are showing just how thankful they are for what the military does for everyone back home.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Nov. 17, 2008 - The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got a first-hand look at battlefield care when he visited the 455th Expeditionary Group hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 - USO performers traveling with the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrapped up a six-country, eight-day tour to bring entertainment to troops.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2008 - Coalition and Iraqi forces killed two suspected terrorists, captured 14 others and seized dozens of weapons in Iraq, military officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2008 - As ghostlike Capitol Hill workers scurried through a cold, misty fog early Friday evening, a nearby group of wounded and injured warriors cosseted in a warm room broke bread and shared stories about far-away lands and future hopes.
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 14, 2008 - The “Fly Girls of World War II†exhibit at the Women In Military Service for America Memorial honors the first U.S. military-trained women aviators.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - For the first time in U.S. history, a female military officer today pinned on the rank of four-star general.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - Navy's Safe Harbor program has no boundaries in how far it will go to help wounded sailors, Rear Adm. Garry White says.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - Coalition forces in Iraq detained 11 suspected terrorists as they continued operations to expel al-Qaida in Iraq from the country.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - The USS Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit are preparing to deploy in support of unified combatant commanders, the strike group commander said this week.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - Marine Chief Warrant Officer 4 Chris Hedgcorth served six combat tours and escaped injury each time. But his seventh tour wasn’t so lucky for him.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2008 - Soldiers, government officials and journalists descended on Afghanistan’s Panjshir province for the grand opening of several developmental projects, including a “green energy†wind farm.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - A National Guard program has created an unlikely cultural exchange between the state of Ohio and the country of Serbia, as proven by the influx of Buckeye memorabilia in Belgrade.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2008 - Coalition forces killed four al-Qaida insurgents during fighting in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province.
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