He writes that he is not trying make a political statement and requests that it not be turned into something it's not. Please respect those wishes.
Fort Hood officials expanded their search for a soldier who went missing at the Central Texas Army post during a training exercise in rugged terrain.
Embedded blogger Michael Yon has come out to speak so forcefully about the importance of the advisement Gen. Petraeus issued to all service members stationed in Iraq last week, that Slogger has decided to reprint the text again.
From the article: "Actor Alec Baldwin was so moved by the story of an 18-year-old Army soldier who is scheduled to serve in Iraq, he's going to help pay for her college education after she leaves the military. ...He - not his people - tracked down Kane's mother at a discount store where she works to offer his assistance, his spokesman said."
A U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty to raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her family was sentenced to 100 years in a military prison, the U.S. Army said on Thursday.
A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 100 years in prison Thursday for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family last year.
George Bush's war has killed something approaching 100,000 Iraqis and roughly 3,100 Americans. But that's just for starters. How many inner lives and relationships have been utterly destroyed in the wake of George's war?
A major anti-terrorism raid in the UK was intended to foil a plot to kidnap a Muslim soldier serving in the British Army in Iraq, and behead him on camera, according to a security source.
Sadie will become only the 25th canine recipient when she receives the medal from Princess Alexandra at a ceremony next week.
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A soldier is accused of taking a $50,000 bribe to steer a food service contract to a Kuwaiti company, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
'I just went along with it,' Airborne member says of alleged order to kill On a side note, I want to say that soldiers who murder in war...............wow cant believe I said that.......are the exception , and not the rule
A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Thursday to shooting a defenseless Iraqi grandfather dragged from his house in the middle of the night in what his squad informally called "Operation Vigilante."
Suburban Chicago officials have renamed a street after an Army sergeant who lost both legs and one arm in Iraq.
Two years ago a young Marine fell on a hand grenade in Iraq , giving his life to save his comrades. Now he is in line to be recognized as only the second Medal of Honor winner from the war.
"My son was killed three years, five months, and 15 days ago on the perimeter of an oil refinery. He was the 249th American killed in the Iraq occupation. When he died I was the only person I knew of who had lost a child in Iraq. He had been in Iraq for less than five months, I could not and would not believe that he had been killed..."
A 101st Airborne Division soldier who had been charged with murder in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lesser offense of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon.
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Premiering in a week when America struggles with the notion that its marines may have massacred civilians in Iraq, the film neither romanticises nor demonises its three main characters: Specialist Michael Moriarty, Sgt Steven Pink and Sgt Zack Bazzi. The soldiers in the film have families and fears, senses of humour and a capacity fo
Iraq has launched its own probe into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by American soldiers even though they face a possible U.S. court-martial in the case, an official said Tuesday.
"I woke up in the hospital strapped down to the bed," Williams said. "I thought the enemy caught me. My vision was really blurry and I couldn't hear real well. I was hurting everywhere."







