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To expedite the delivery of benefits to many injured servicemembers who receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the VA and Department of Defense expanded to streamline the application process for people retiring or exiting the military due to disabilities.
KABUL -- Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the...
E-mails between a U.S. Army officer and a radical Muslim cleric didn't worry investigators, they said, because nothing seemed to presage violence. But elsewhere online, the imam urged violence.
Saddam Hussein was telling the truth this time. The United States just didn't believe him.
In the opening salvo of last month’s NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet, Arberjean Anderson and three other young women made their way center stage.
Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him.
Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him. So it took the most powerful military in the world 18 years to find the remains of the only U.S. Navy pilot shot down in an aerial battle in the 1991 Gulf War. Michael "Scott" Speicher's bones lay 18 inches deep in Iraqi sand, more or less right where a group of Iraqis had led an American search team in ...
KABUL -- Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin deploying to southern Afghanistan to renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that stalled earlier this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan gov...
SANTA CRUZ -- The U.S. Marine Corps, in its 62nd year of helping needy children have a cheerful Christmas, has planned several holiday activities around Santa Cruz County to drum up support for the perennial Toys For Tots program.
Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him.
The event is sponsored by the Appalacian Center for Independent Living.
Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
Ten recipients were honored Nov. 15 at a Chapel of Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Awards Ceremony at the Holiday Inn West in Mechanicsburg.
The McDowell County Health Department will provide free H1N1 flu mist and vaccines at the McDowell National Guard Armory from 1-7 p.m. Monday.
YORK, Pa. - A little girl who trembled in her house as a National Guard tank rumbled past during York's chaotic 1969 race riots has grown up to become the first black mayor of the central Pennsylvania city.
NEWPORT TWP. – Hundreds packed Corpus Christi Parish in Glen Lyon Saturday morning to say their final goodbyes to U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton after the nearly 100-car procession made its way from Greater Nanticoke Area High School with a police escort.
On Saturday, Nov. 11, Mark Scott, the owner of the Copper Bottom Restaurant in the Village of Florida, held a fundraiser to honor veterans as well as troops presently deployed in harm’s way. A special buffet was offered, with the proceeds going to American Legion Post 488 in Monroe, earmarked for care packages to be mailed to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pictured are Post 488 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him.
Last Nov. 19, members of American Legion Post 488 in Monroe and Monroe Council 2079 of the Knights of Columbus co-hosted a full Thanksgiving dinner for veterans in Nursing Wards 1 and 2 at the Castle Point VA Hospital. At the left are Recreation Supervisor Ellen Varien, Martin Currid, Jim Knox and Bob Martell of Post 488. To the right are John McElroy, Ned Sweeney and Jim O’Boyle of the Monroe ...
On Nov. 11, Mark Scott, owner of the Copper Bottom Restaurant in the Village of Florida, held a fund raiser to honor veterans as well as troops currently deployed in harm’s way. A special buffet was offered with the proceeds going to American Legion Post 488 in Monroe, earmarked for care packages to be mailed to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Post 488 Chaplain John Rudden, left ...
In a further attempt to seal the boundary and restore order, the Border Patrol this year opened Camp Ramsey, a permanent forward operation base in the middle of the desert, 26 miles west of the nearest town.
