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U.S. Marines and Afghan troops on Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.
RICHLAND, Va., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has contracted Mohr and Associates to support an upgrade to next-generation time-domain reflectometer technologies.
More than 1,000 British, Afghan and US troops launched a fresh offensive in a key battleground of southern Afghanistan on Friday, after President Barack Obama unveiled a new strategy to end the war.
-- A Dec. 3 Page One article on testimony about the war in Afghanistan misstated the timing of two committee hearings. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on...
A former British military chief says the United States decided that it had won the war in Iraq too soon.
The Madison-based Wisconsin Air National Guard 's 115th Fighter Wing is being recognized as running one of the safest Air Force bases in the nation.
Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, the chief of NATO said Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her allied counterparts that an infusion of forces is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
Cordia-Humphrey, American Legion Post 265, in conjunction with Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6996 will have a flag ceremony honoring veterans of all wars at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Washington County Courthouse.
Northrop bagged a $171 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy.
The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will "probably" take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, although he added that "there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined a NATO foreign ministers meeting Friday to sell the new U.S. war plan for Afghanistan to wary allies, and the top NATO official predicted a "new momentum" in the war effort in 2010.
The day after arriving at Fort Hood, Army reservists dedicated to counseling troubled soldiers in war zones were overcome with their own grief.
Soldiers will hold a closure ceremony at the Reserve Avenue site at 10:00 a.m. Saturday.
Northrop Grumman Corp. said Wednesday it has won a $171 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide parts used in the construction of Aegis-class DDG destroyers.
MADISON The administrator who oversees the states largest nursing home for veterans has been fired for a second time in three months.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, arriving Friday at NATO headquarters, welcomed an expected series of announcements by allied nations of additional military, civilian and financial support for the war effort in Afghanistan.
U.S. Marines launch first major Afghan operation since US troop surge announced.
The Indiana National Guard 384th Military Police Company — which includes an Evansville-based detachment of about 70 soldiers serving in Iraq — is expected to return from deployment before Christmas , officials said Thursday.The unit, which is stationed at Forward Operating Base Sykes near Tal Afar, Iraq , has been training and mentoring Iraqi police officers since January.Cautioning that plans ...
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.
(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.
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.
