Last month Battleland’s Bingham C. Jamison wrote about Staff Sgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie, the last U.S. troop missing in action in Iraq:
There are few things in military life more frustrating than searching for a fellow Marine or soldier you are unable to find and bring home. I know, because I’ve tried, and failed…We must bring
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Surely you’ve been driving down the street when, though no fault of your own, your windshield fogs up and you suddenly find yourself driving blind. Now imagine you’re flying an F-16 on the verge of landing amid an air show crowd – not to mention lots of vintage airplanes – when your canopy cockpit fogs up.
That’s precisely …
The Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan has been the Greyhound Bus terminal for U.S. troops flowing in and out of Afghanistan for the past decade. But that’s coming to an end in two years. Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev told …
The Army removed Colonel Dallas Homas, commander of Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state, on Tuesday from his post because of an investigation into whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses were reversed …
That might be one conclusion to be drawn from this wrenching chart in a new Congressional Budget Office report on how the Department of Veterans Affairs is handling wounded troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The chart shows that nearly all the troops afflicted with both ailments remain …
Army Sergeant Sandra Coast graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., last Friday at age 51. “Everybody in the world thinks I am a total nutcase,” she tells the post’s public-affairs officer. “I just want …
General Peter Chiarelli retired three weeks ago. He was the Vice Chief of Staff (VCSA) of the U.S. Army, which means the service’s second most powerful general with four stars, his only boss being the Chief of Staff of the Army. …
“OutServe is a gay activist group using provocative tactics to advance their agenda in the military, and to establish themselves as a special interest group pushing self-serving demands.”
