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The Obama administration is forging ahead with its civilian surge in Afghanistan but some experts say thousands more are needed while others fear the security situation is making the push ineffective.
The damage at the Markland Locks and Dam near Warsaw, Ky., has slowed and complicated river traffic and will for several more weeks. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it could be April before the 1,200-foot lock reopens.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is weighing which of two solutions it should pursue in fixing a major flood protection levee near the Mel Price Lock and Dam that could collapse during the next big flood.
Gov. Chris Gregoire has directed that flags at all Washington state agency buildings be lowered to half-staff Tuesday in memory of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. John J. Cleaver of Marysville. Cleaver was killed in Afghanistan recently when a suicide bomber attacked his unit.
CONNIE PLETL N. TOPSAIL BEACH – The eroding areas at the end of Topsail Island will get a welcome gift of sand from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
U.S. Army Private First Class Justin Taylor of Bamberg said it feels good to be back on American soil after serving a year in Iraq.
Any examination of the high commands of the two Civil War armies must begin with raw numbers of officers involved. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point was fully operational in 1860, and when the war began, the U.S. Army included more than 1,100 officers. They served primarily on frontier duty, trying to keep peace between settlers heading west and the American Indian tribes whose land the ...
Ann Layon has known for months that her son, a private in the U.S. Army Reserve, was going to Iraq. But it wasn't until Sunday morning when she saw him standing in line with the other soldiers that she started to cry.
Sgt. Steve Sunzeri, 26, of Naperville joined a helicopter crew in October on a routine flight to two remote sites of Task Force Keystone's Alaska-based Company C, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, Medical Evacuation. Illinois' Company A, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation Regiment based in Decatur, supplied that crew, which ended up flying a Pennsylvanian Black Hawk helicopter.Sunzeri has six ...
KOLK, Afghanistan — When the improvised bomb exploded in a mud-walled compound about 300 yards from a new traffic checkpoint, the six Afghan police officers at the post just looked at one another.
Thousands of soldiers from the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team recently visited their families for the final time before deploying to Iraq.
ARCHBOLD, Ohio - Kenneth E. Stamm, retired chief executive officer of Farmers & Merchants State Bank based in Archbold and operator of the A.J. Stamm Insurance Agency, died Friday in Defiance Inpatient Hospice Center. He was 89 and his family said they did not know the exact cause of his death. Mr. Stamm started his career in 1938 as a janitor at the Farmers & Merchants State Bank. Though he ...
U.S. Army Sgt. Mark Orr from St. Louis Park, Minn., attached to the 34th Infantry Division passes out school supplies during the grand opening of the Al Hojarat School for Boys and Girls that schools 650 students, in Basra, Iraq, Nov. 5. The Al Hojarat School is one of many schools chosen for renovations by the 1314th Civil Affairs Company, 17th Fires Brigade.
Lyle Van Norman's south Redding home has always been considered safe from a 100-year flood.But that protection is about to vanish.The dike shielding Van Norman's property from nearby Olney Creek is losing its federal accreditation. The earthen berm - a quarter-mile long, perhaps 20 feet tall, and 12 feet wide at the top - will no longer exist, for flood-mapping purposes at least.That means hefty ...
CLEMSON — David Freeman nearly lost his marina business when Lake Harwell dropped to an unprecedented 22-foot low last winter, yet a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander said economic impact isn't considered in lake management decisions.
On a two-week leave of R&R from her second deployment at Bagram, Afghanistan, U.S. Army Capt. Diane Collver contemplates a career shift to help veterans who can neither rest nor relax.
