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American Legion Post 134 in Morton Grove helped make Thanksgiving at least a little like home for 50 recruits from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center who attended a day of food and recreation at the post headquarters.
Top US officials renewed their defense of President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan on Thursday as skeptical lawmakers questioned the costly mission and a July 2011 date to start an American withdrawal.
The fight at Nasiriyah had been intense for three days. It had started Sunday morning south of the city and now, on Tuesday, Chief Warrant Officer 5 David Dunfee, the battalion gunner for 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, was north of the city.
‘Air support never came. We were on our own.’ Marc Silvestri squeezed behind a rock and watched a bullet smack the dirt where his foot had just been. Rounds zipped overhead. His patrol, spread out halfway up a mountain in Afghanistan on Aug. 24, 2008, was under fire from three sides.
The first time he raced across the field, Pfc. Jason Maimes felt like a moving target. The way back could only get messier.
The first he saw of the enemy were the muzzle flashes. More than a hundred insurgents were peppering the Humvee ahead of Staff Sgt. Jamyn Peterson as soldiers spilled out of the disabled truck and staggered around in a daze.
On paper, the mission seemed simple. Capt. Kellie McCoy, on her first patrol in Iraq, was driving from the 82nd Airborne Division's headquarters outside Ramadi to a massive airbase near Fallujah to visit her troops.
The U.S. aerospace industry urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to press for changes to an international pact to spur the multibillion-dollar market for remotely piloted aircraft.
A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the president's chief military and diplomatic advisers sought to cool any expectations that the war would end in two years.
United States Army SPC Michael Paul Barbour and his wife, Army PFC Kalissa Barbour, both combat medics, flew home to Rogue River from Fort Stewart, Georgia, to attend their baby shower with family and friends at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 4116.
Secretary of state welcomes an expected series of announcements by allied nations of additional military, civilian and financial support for the war effort in Afghanistan.
Things looked a lot like Christmas at the VA Medical Center on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Northrop Grumman wins $171 million US Navy contract to provide parts for destroyers
Pakistan's prime minister on Thursday defended his country's efforts in fighting terrorism, saying he didn't believe Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan and that Pakistani security forces had been successful in tackling terrorism within the country's borders.
Administration officials testifying before a Senate panel on Thursday were asked about the strategy for the rugged border region.
General Dynamics C4 Systems will produce 24 additional Combat Operations Centers for the U.S. Marine Corps under a new $54 million contract modification. The COCs will enable command and control operations for Marines deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, from division or air-wing headquarters to the regimental level.
Washington Post: Afghanistan Drawdown Could Take 2 to 3 Years, Defense Secretary Says
Greg Mortenson, author of 'Three Cups of Tea,' says success lies in building trust and schools in rural Afghanistan.
A fire ripped through the Indiana home of a soldier who is serving in Iraq. Annie Rekitzke was at work and her four children were staying with a grandparent when the fire broke out at the house in Cedar Lake on Wednesday. Her husband, Christopher Rekitzke, has been serving with the Army National Guard in Iraq for six months and has six more months to go. The blaze claimed the family's dog and ...
The race for a Senate seat once held by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy and "liberal lion" Edward M. Kennedy is shaping up as a battle of relative national unknowns, led by a state Democratic insider and a Republican lawmaker perhaps best known as a male centerfold and father of an "American Idol" contestant.
Col. Gordon D. Kuntz will turn over command of the Kansas Army National Guard's Medical Detachment to Col. John D. Muther during a change of command ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009.
