US Marines launch offensive in Afghanistan
AP - 1 hour 41 minutes agoU.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft Friday in the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge.
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U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft Friday in the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge.
Bid to disrupt Taliban supply, communications lines is first since Obama's speech
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jonathan Andrew Taylor, a member of The Citadel Class of 2009, died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The day after arriving at Fort Hood, Army reservists dedicated to counseling troubled soldiers in war zones were overcome with their own grief.
(Submitted photo) Pierre Renaud received the Department of Defense Patriotic Award for helping his Cascades Plastics employee, Henry Barnes, who was on active duty with the U.S. Army.
MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Air National Guard's 115th Fighter Wing has earned a prestigious workplace safety award. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has given the 115th its Voluntary Protection Program Star rating. The program promotes work site safety and health.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- New Orleans' traditional Christmas Eve bonfires have been given the go-ahead after being held up because of high water on the Mississippi River, officials said.
Springfield signs covenant with Fort Leonard Wood to promote soldiers' quality of life. National Guard says the Springfield airport area our number one building project for the future.
Michigan 1073rd Maintenance Company off to Iraq As many are preparing to be together with their families for the holidays...members of the 1073rd Maintenance Company of the Michigan National Guard are preparing to say goodbye.
PADUCAH, KY - A farewell ceremony is planned in our region for a National Guard unit getting ready for deployment. Friends and family will gather to honor the Kentucky Army National Guard's 2113th Transportation Company on December 6, at 9am at Tilghman High School Auditorium.
Senator Kerry requested that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee look into the events at Tora Bora.
America's eight-year effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama's new plan to quickly get the nation's army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months.
Not many military leaders understood the fighting man as well as British Gen. William Slim.
Dorothy “Dorrie” Carskadon is upbeat and happy — a remarkable phenomenon considering the U.S. Army Reserve social worker and former Rockford resident took four bullets in the Nov. 5 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Carskadon is recovering at her Madison, Wis., home and still faces several months of physical therapy.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. William Duda, home on a short leave from duty in Kuwait, was a guest speaker recently at Rossi Intermediate School in Vineland, where his brother, Keith Santini, is an eighth-grade student.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger received a warm ovation today as he and other dignitaries hailed the long-awaited completion of a 60-bed veterans home in east Ventura.But the real heroes of the day, many veterans said at today’s ceremony, were oldtimers like Chuck Bennett and LeRoy Andrews, a local World War II veteran who fought and waited and cajoled for nearly two decades to make the ribbon ...
John Brown, the 19th-century abolitionist who advocated armed violence, is drawing a diverse crowd this week to study how his fight against slavery continues to play in America.
Authorities dumped 2,300 gallons of a fish-killing toxin into a 6-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, targeting the invasive Asian carp. Although none of the fish have actually been seen in this part of the canal, Asian carp DNA was found in water samples.
In commemoration of the 68th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, a U.S. Army retiree and military model-making enthusiast will donate a model of the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) in a presentation to Aiea Public Library on Monday at 4 p.m. in the Reading Room.
Twenty-six thousand veterans now in college still have not received their living stipends and book allowances under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, a big sign of continuing problems in the program that may lead some students to drop out.
The old terminal at the Springfield-Branson National Airport could be partially filled come spring.