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The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy.
Sixteen members of the Minnesota National Guard have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and 2,240 Minnesota National Guard soldiers and airmen will spend Christmas overseas. On Midday, Adj. Gen. Larry Shellito talks about Minnesotans who are serving in wartime.
GRAND BLANC, Michigan — The American Legion Post 413 in Grand Blanc is holding a toy drive Saturday for Toys for Tots. Those who bring toys will receive tickets toward the 50/50 and prize bucket raffles. Each donated toy worth five...
For 75 years members of the Military Order of the Cootie, the honor degree of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has commemorated the lives and service of members of the American Armed Forces at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The Pentagon says it will spend $136 billion on the men and women serving in America's military. In the excerpt below from a paper over...
President Hamid Karzai told visiting US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday that Afghanistan would need aid to fund its security forces for up to 20 more years, calling for a long-term US commitment.
LAKE OZARK, Mo. - Missouri will celebrate the National Guard's 373rd birthday with a formal ball on Dec. 12 at the Lake of the Ozarks.
Army National Guard Pvt. Tara L. Beverlin has graduated from the Automated Logistical Specialist Advanced Individual Training (AIT) course at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee, Petersburg, Va.
Violence in Afghanistan is likely to worsen next summer as the last of some 30,000 new U.S. troops enter the country, Gen. David Petraeus told Congress on Wednesday, but the head of the military's Central Command predicted that the situation likely will improve by next December, when President Obama is set to review his new strategy. The situation is similar to what happened with the troop surge ...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 1:50 p.m. in New York.
The 105 members of the Fort Mill National Guard unit heading to Afghanistan early next year will get
SHELBYVILLE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Shelbyville is currently accepting job applications for summer student employment for the 2010 recreation season.
DES MOINES - The National Guard is ready to jump into action if humvees are needed to help rescue stranded motorists Tuesday night on Interstate 80. “One of the primary concerns we will have would be stranded motorists,” said Brett Voorhees, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Homeland Security.
Jordan Pittard, 14, remembers feeling anxious about his father being deployed with the U.S. Army in Iraq from 2006 to 2007. His mother, Lucille, a teacher, admits struggling to have enough time to work, take care of the house and talk enough to her kids.
Progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan probably will be slower than during the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq two years ago, and the war will be "harder before it gets easier," a top U.S. general said Wednesday. Gen. David Petraeus, who executed the Iraq surge in 2007, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he supports the upcoming escalation of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
President Obama says the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan could begin by July 2011, but America's top commander tells NPR that it is "probably realistic" that it would be five years before the Afghan government is ready to assume control over security. In the interview, McChrystal offers further insights into the new war strategy.
Production Shifting From Edwards AFB to Palmdale, California The first Block 40 configuration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight on Nov. 16. Designated AF-18, the advanced capability aircraft flew for approximately two hours.
SAN FRANCISCO----URS Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to provide acquisition support services to the U.S. Marine Corps’ Mine Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicle program in Stafford, Virginia.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday that his provision to name the current and future VA hospital in Louisville the Robley Rex Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center was included in the FY2010 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Two U.S. Army Rangers accused in a bar burglary that left a man with a stab wound will be allowed to deploy overseas under a judge's ruling.
The photo caption that accompanied the American Valor story in Tuesday's Review-Journal misidentified Marco Martinez as a U.S. Marine Corps corporal. Martinez earned a Navy Cross as a corporal but was photographed after he was promoted to sergeant.
