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September 08, 2010 - The first brigade of Soldiers to deploy exclusively in support of Operation New Dawn has arrived in southern Iraq.
September 07, 2010 - After spending the better part of the past decade defending the Defense Department’s computer networks, the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations command cased its colors.
September 07, 2010 - Three Soldiers from the New York Army National Guard's 206th Military Police Company will be featured on a special edition of the Comedy Central Show "The Colbert Report" which is set to air Sept. 8.
September 03, 2010 - In the past year, more than 1,300 Soldiers, including about 20 drill sergeants from Fort Benning, have taken the Master Resilience Training course, part of the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program.
September 02, 2010 - A structural test vehicle from the Defense Support Program, which helped provide the Air Force with early warning of ballistic missile launches or above ground nuclear detonations, was recently donated to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
August 31, 2010 - The change from Operation Iraqi Freedom to Operation New Dawn does not affect combat and other hazardous-duty entitlements troops serving in Iraq receive, a Pentagon spokeswoman said today.
August 31, 2010 - President Barack Obama today announced the official end to combat operations in Iraq during a prime-time Oval Office address, declaring “a new beginning” for the Iraqi people.
August 31, 2010 - Recognizing the longstanding integrated collaboration shared by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki gave the keynote address at the fourth annual Traumatic Brain Injury Military Training Conference.
August 31, 2010 - The last EC-130H Compass Call assigned to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing departed here Aug. 29 for deployment to another U.S. Central Command base.
August 30, 2010 - Certifying one’s son to fly a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with night-vision gear takes the stress level up a notch.
August 28, 2010 - President Barack Obama called on the American people today to provide new care, opportunity and commitment to the million military men and women who've served in Iraq.
August 27, 2010 - U.S. Army leadership gathered at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington, Va., Aug. 26, to celebrate Women's Equality Day on the 90th anniversary that women gained the right to vote.
August 27, 2010 - The secretary of the Army spent two days at Joint Base Lewis-McChord this week, getting a firsthand view of its services and facilities.
August 26, 2010 - When Operation Iraqi Freedom ends and Operation New Dawn launches Sept. 1, don't look for a lot of fanfare as the mission officially moves from combat to stability operations, the top U.S. Forces Iraq spokesman told American Forces Press Service today.
August 26, 2010 - The 121st Medical Company (Air Ambulance) of the District of Columbia National Guard recently became the first unit to perform a medical evacuation mission using the UH-72 Lakota helicopter in Hohenfels, Germany on Aug. 10.
August 25, 2010 - The U.S. Army has seen significant technological, doctrinal and structural changes within the past decade.
August 24, 2010 - While convoys are operating in areas where ground communications are limited, joint airborne battle staff crews are stepping in to bridge the gap during the responsible drawdown of forces where communication is critical.
August 24, 2010 - As U.S. combat troops leave Iraq, the helicopters are sticking around.
August 23, 2010 - Four Marines were added to the Purple Heart’s list of heroes injured during battles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
August 22, 2010 - It is unlikely the U.S. military will resume a combat mission in Iraq after Sept. 1, the top U.S. military commander there said today, citing progress in Iraq’s government and security forces.
August 20, 2010 - As U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan close a difficult summer of fighting, the top commander there remains optimistic about the country’s future and committed to the military mission.
August 20, 2010 - At the Air Force Sergeant's Association Professional Airmen's Conference here Aug. 18, the Air Force secretary emphasized his commitment to Airmen and their families.
August 20, 2010 - It's extreme, it's funny, it's a lecture and yet it feels like a night at the comedy club.
August 19, 2010 - As U.S. forces were preparing to cross the Iraqi desert to invade an area controlled by a powerful dictator in March 2003, Mitchell Anwar was busy constructing a special gift for his dad in Mr. Morris' seventh-grade wood shop class in Olympia, Wash.
August 19, 2010 - A fundamental shift will take place at the end of the month in the mission of U.S. forces in Iraq, a Pentagon official said Aug. 19.
August 17, 2010 - The Army extended the presence of the UH-72A Lakota Helicopter into the Military District of Washington, Aug. 11, as it replaced the UH-1 Iroquois Helicopter, or Huey, at Fort Belvoir's Davison Army Airfield.
August 16, 2010 - Increased dwell time and predictability are coming, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth Preston told approximately 500 Soldiers here Friday at Club Hood.
August 16, 2010 - U.S. advise and assist operations in Anbar province helped Iraqi Security Forces achieve a milestone Aug. 10 when the Iraqi Police hosted their first community outreach event at the Anbar Police Department's media center.
August 12, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered a thorough force structure review of the Marine Corps to determine what an expeditionary force in readiness should look like in the 21st century.
August 12, 2010 - "It's hard to fight complacency when you're just waiting around," admitted Sgt. 1st Class Elias Munoz as he and two of his Soldiers attempted to hook up cable for television in a room set aside for U.S. Soldiers here.
August 11, 2010 - Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis brings a wealth of experience in the Middle East to his new assignment as the commander of U.S. Central Command here, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
August 10, 2010 - Air Force Reserve planners are designing an organization that will serve as the single path to request and receive, as well as oversee and deliver, Air Force Reserve forces and capability.
August 09, 2010 - The National Guard likely will continue to play a significant role in overseas contingency operations for the foreseeable future, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told 1,800 Guard members Aug. 8.
August 08, 2010 - Iraqi security forces are on track to assume full operations and prepared to deal with spates of violence by extremists intent on derailing Iraqi progress, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said this morning.
August 07, 2010 - When Iraqi forces began pouring over the border into neighboring Kuwait, most Americans would have had a hard time finding the country on a map.
August 06, 2010 - President Barack Obama this week hailed “one of the largest logistics operations we’ve seen in decades” accompanying the force drawdown in Iraq.
August 06, 2010 - Marines with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, spent the day here mentoring soldiers with the Armed Forces for the Defense of Mozambique (FADM).
August 06, 2010 - Historic, monumental and simply incredible are just a few ways to describe the milestone soon to be attained by the men and women of the 55th Wing.
August 06, 2010 - The Senate unanimously confirmed Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis as commander of U.S. Central Command.
August 06, 2010 - The day retired Gen. Charles A. Horner received the call 20 years ago that eventually launched Operation Desert Shield he was flying his F-16 Fighting Falcon.
August 05, 2010 - In response to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' effort to find efficiencies throughout the services, National Guard officials are taking a hard look at how they operate.
August 05, 2010 - A team of medical researchers from the 59th Medical Wing Clinical Research division are here working to help servicemembers affected by vascular, or circulatory, injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
August 04, 2010 - As he tells the story, his head is on a swivel. He looks around as if he’s lost something. With various verbal pauses and clicks of his tongue, he seems distracted, as if he could be doing something more important than reminiscing about the past.
August 04, 2010 - Defense Department officials must plan to maintain recent additions to the ground forces for the foreseeable future and boost their long-range strike, maritime and cyber capability to confront global trends and threats.
August 02, 2010 - People are at the center of the counterinsurgency guidance the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan issued yesterday.
August 02, 2010 - Tucked in the dense woods of a typically quiet, remote German logging trail is a flurry of activity. A small bulldozer scoops dirt into a wooden box large enough to be a closet, whereby more dirt is transferred into smaller buckets.
August 02, 2010 - While no easy answers exist to a military suicide problem that has reached "crisis level," a big part of the solution is tied to leadership, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
August 02, 2010 - The red jackets of the Tuskegee Airmen remain as distinctive today as the red tail markings on the aircraft they flew during World War II.
July 30, 2010 - Memorial Day is a time for remembrance; it'll certainly be a day one Airman here will never forget.
July 29, 2010 - A congressionally mandated panel has recommended broad changes to long-term Defense Department strategies and priorities, including funding a major recapitalization of equipment.
July 29, 2010 - The Utah National Guard's 141st Military Intelligence Battalion will deploy to Iraq in a few weeks with 83 soldiers who have earned Eagle Scout badges from the Boy Scouts of America.
July 29, 2010 - Soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team received a rousing welcome home from Iraq here today, not only from fellow Soldiers, family members and community leaders, but also from Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden.
July 27, 2010 - Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis called for harmony and consistency in the U.S. Central Command area of operation today, citing the need for continued military, civilian and regional cooperation to successfully drive out extremism.
July 26, 2010 - Though the battle in Regional Command-East in Afghanistan is more difficult than expected, U.S., NATO and Afghan forces are making progress there, Army Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell said here yesterday.
July 26, 2010 - Providing soldiers a home away from home has been Carole Coveney's mission for more than two decades.
July 23, 2010 - First Lady Michelle Obama today became the first-ever presidential spouse to christen a new U.S. Coast Guard cutter during a ceremony held in Pascagoula, Miss.
July 23, 2010 - Soccer is a sport widely considered to be the most global game. Its simple rules and complex artistry can captivate massive audiences. Its modest equipment requirements can connect the poorest countries with the richest.
July 23, 2010 - Service chiefs from each branch came together to lend their support to the cause of helping military children July 23 here.
July 22, 2010 - Since 2003, the Army medical community has worked feverishly to establish processes that will improve the speed at which post-traumatic stress among military members is diagnosed, the Army’s surgeon general said here today.
July 22, 2010 - When Sharon E. Burke was sworn in earlier this month as the Pentagon’s first director of operational energy plans and programs, her mission was clear: reduce the amount of energy needed in war zones.
July 22, 2010 - Shelly is a smart, successful business owner, but a brief liaison with a man claiming to be a servicemember nearly cost her everything.
July 22, 2010 - Caring for wounded and injured servicemembers is among the highest priorities for officials within the Defense Department, the acting deputy assistant defense secretary for clinical and program policy told Congress today.
July 20, 2010 - Over the past year, I’ve spoken with many military families about the challenges they face, and a common issue is education for children from Guard and reserve families.
July 20, 2010 - Tour lengths for servicemembers assigned to South Korea and the Army's deployment cycles were on the minds of Soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division's 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team when they met with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates here today.
July 20, 2010 - U.S. Army aviators flew with aviators from the Iraqi Army July 19 for a training mission in the Baghdad area intended to strengthen relations between their units and train the Iraqi aviators on VIP transportation.
July 20, 2010 - By 8:30 a.m., it is 98 degrees Fahrenheit under the tarpaulin. A group of eager Iraqi Army soldiers huddle around Sgt. Jasen Sumner as he explains how to conduct preventive maintenance checks and services on the track pads of the M1A1 Main Battle Tank.
July 19, 2010 - The National Guard is sending 1,200 troops to the Southwest border states to provide temporary support for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, officials announced today.
July 19, 2010 - A C-130 Hercules flight engineer with more than 700 deployed flying hours who is also a cancer survivor is riding his bike 4,000 miles across the U.S.
July 19, 2010 - The chief master sgt. of the Air Force, visited Airmen here July 14 through July 16.
July 14, 2010 - Because Congress has yet to pass a supplemental funding bill, the Defense Department must start taking measures to ensure uninterrupted war operations, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today.
July 13, 2010 - The military has more than enough large transport planes, and the appropriation of any more in the next budget year will force some into premature retirement, Defense Department officials told a congressional panel today.
July 13, 2010 - Members of the 16th and 380th Space Control Squadrons acheived a milestone recently when their deployed mission, Operation Silent Sentry, surpassed five years of continuous deployed operations.
July 13, 2010 - Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen look forward to going home on R&R and redeployment from various locations throughout the Middle East but would rather avoid the 100-percent 'baggage dump' required for customs inspections.
July 12, 2010 - An Army National Guard officer received the South Carolina Medal of Valor June 19 after saving the life of a man ejected from his truck when it was struck by a train.
July 12, 2010 - The 732nd Security Forces Squadron, Det. 3, was inactivated during a ceremony July 3, at 7:32 a.m.
July 12, 2010 - The Veterans Affairs Department will publish a final regulation July 13 intended to ease the claims process and improve access to health care for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
July 11, 2010 - Like many combat-injured servicemembers, Army Pfc. Matthew Castillo del Muro has found comfort in family and support.
July 10, 2010 - The Veterans Affairs Department will begin making it easier for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder to obtain the benefits and treatment they need starting next week, President Barack Obama said today.
July 09, 2010 - Leaders of the new U.S. Cyber Command have a long to-do list in creating central oversight for the military’s computer networks, including synchronizing what the services already have in place, officials said yesterday.
July 09, 2010 - Air Force Tech. Sgt. David Butler is a former Marine who’s now serving here as an instructor with the Texas Air National Guard.
July 09, 2010 - Elements of the English Central Helicopter Command's Commando Helicopter Force recently arrived aboard the Air Station to participate in combined amphibious exercises with U.S. Marines as part of Operation Auriga 2010.
July 08, 2010 - A training program is equipping Defense Department civilian employees with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully deploy in support of humanitarian, reconstruction and combat-support military missions across the globe.
July 08, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today recommended Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command.
July 08, 2010 - Hundreds of Soldiers will leave their units in Iraq and return home early over the next two months to help meet the president's mandated troop strength of 50,000 in the country by Sept. 1.
July 07, 2010 - Several active duty security forces members now have a better idea what the “Total Force” concept is after learning valuable combat skills from Guard instructors.
July 06, 2010 - In 2005 an insurgent sniper in Baghdad nearly killed New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Craig Macy.
July 06, 2010 - One Army veteran, severely wounded in Iraq, has been given a great boost forward to start a new life with his soon-to-be wife.
July 05, 2010 - Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT)/ 5th Fleet (C5F)/Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) held a change of command ceremony at Naval Support Activity Bahrain July 5.
July 04, 2010 - Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, presided over a naturalization ceremony in Al Faw Palace here today in honor of 156 servicemembers who earned their U.S. citizenship through service to the nation.
July 04, 2010 - As Americans back home celebrated with fireworks and festivities, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, opted to spend their Fourth of July holiday in Iraq, thanking U.S. troops for the service and sacrifice.
July 03, 2010 - The United States in on track or ahead of schedule to end its combat mission in Iraq this summer, and the lack of a permanent government there will not serve as a deterrent to that plan.
July 02, 2010 - The military's efforts to have more language-qualified servicemembers are beginning to pay off, the Defense Department's senior language authority said this week.
July 02, 2010 - One year after U.S. forces withdrew from Iraqi cities, the chief of staff for the 3rd Infantry Division and Task Force Marne said yesterday that Iraqi security forces have proven themselves capable of conducting independent operations.
July 01, 2010 - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased's status as a veteran.
July 01, 2010 - U.S. Soldiers at Al Asad Air Base not only have an inexpensive way to deliver small items like ammunition, food and water, they have trained Iraqi special operations forces how to do it themselves.
July 01, 2010 - Last week, he was an Army noncommissioned officer, but today, Mark Cox is a new cadet at West Point. Not yet a plebe in the Corps of Cadets until he completes Beast Barracks.
June 30, 2010 - On the Fourth of July, the nation will celebrate its 234th birthday. For most of us, the coming weekend will be filled with family gatherings, festivals and fireworks.
June 29, 2010 - Service before self is expected in the military, but one family has taken that concept to new heights.
June 29, 2010 - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced June 29 that the Department of Veterans Affairs is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased's status as a veteran.
June 28, 2010 - When the National Intrepid Center of Excellence opened its doors here last week, the sense of hope in reversing the rising tide of brain injuries and psychological illness in servicemembers was palpable.
June 25, 2010 - A month-long campaign culminated yesterday with a $1 million gift from a restaurant chain to a nonprofit troop-support organization.
June 25, 2010 - America exists and prospers because members of the U.S. armed forces step forward and protect it, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.
June 24, 2010 - Flanked by Korean War veterans, many proudly bearing the medals and insignias of their military service, defense officials commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Korean War and saluted the veterans during a ceremony held at the Pentagon here today.
June 24, 2010 - The Air Force's top military leader took time during a visit to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing June 22 to present combat decorations to two Airmen.
June 24, 2010 - An independent council of Cabinet members announced a proposal yesterday they said will seek to end veteran homelessness in five years and put the nation on a path to end homelessness in the United States by 2020.
June 23, 2010 - Shortly after President Barack Obama announced today that he had accepted Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s resignation, the departing general released a written statement expressing his support for the president’s Afghanistan policy.
June 23, 2010 - Retired Gen. Donn A. Starry is considered to be the architect of the 1980s' Air-Land Battle Doctrine, which transformed how the Army fights conventional wars.
June 23, 2010 - Soldiers from the 1st Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and Air Force F-16 fighters teamed for four days with the 17th Iraqi Army Division conducting a full-scale defensive-fires exercise at the Besmaya Range Complex outside Baghdad.
June 23, 2010 - President Barack Obama today accepted Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, calling it the right decision for national security.
June 21, 2010 - Service before self is expected of our Soldiers, but one family has taken it to new heights.
June 19, 2010 - A transfer-of-authority ceremony between the 17th Fires Brigade and 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division was held in the chapel on COB Basra June 17, 2010.
June 18, 2010 - Army Sgt. 1st Class Roland Lueras left for a year-long deployment to Iraq on Father’s Day last year, missing his family’s usual gift-giving celebrations.
June 18, 2010 - Airmen and Soldiers brought their experience from Afghanistan and Iraq to test the latest communications systems in the Colorado Springs portion of the joint Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration on June 16.
June 16, 2010 - Local residents and visitors crowded the shore to get a glimpse of the sight reflections gleaming from the tops of the amphibious assault vehicles making their way toward the coast.
June 15, 2010 - To maintain the U.S. position of having the strongest military in the world, leaders must ensure that servicemembers and their families always “are the center of gravity,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last night.
June 14, 2010 - Military personnel at Dover Air Force Base, Del., performed their duties with solemn respect over the past several weeks as U.S. servicemembers killed in Afghanistan returned to U.S. soil.
June 14, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates helped to celebrate the Army’s 235th birthday today at a Pentagon courtyard ceremony and imparted a message for its leadership to always make time to listen to what their troops have to say.
June 14, 2010 - The nation may never become entirely "paperless" in the way it documents patient medical records, but the military and veterans health care communities are on the right path and have the technologies in place to one day be very close.
June 14, 2010 - In some form or fashion, every Airman deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility feels the effects of round-the-clock air operations.
June 11, 2010 - Vice President Joe Biden today praised Iraqi and U.S. security forces for killing two top leaders of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror organization."Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!"
June 11, 2010 - Kim Ruocco hung up the phone with her husband, relieved he had finally agreed to seek help for his increasingly severe bouts of depression.
June 10, 2010 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today told graduates of the National Defense University here that their careers will be dominated by their understanding of the precise application of military force and national power.
June 09, 2010 - Several members of the Washington Redskins joined forces with the USO and the Wounded Warrior Project here yesterday at the ESPN Zone for a “Guitar Hero” video game showdown with soldiers stationed in Basra, Iraq.
June 08, 2010 - Michigan Army National Guard Spc. Anna Jonkman, 22, says she has a keen sense of cultural awareness. To her, it is a natural instinct she applies daily while escorting Iraqis to work here.
June 07, 2010 - Airmen from the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Det. 3, graduated the last 15 of more than 400 Iraqi police students at the Taji Law Enforcement Academy here June 3.
June 06, 2010 - The military’s top officer thanked the D-Day veterans of World War II for their service here today, and asked them to reach out to those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan to share their common experiences.
June 04, 2010 - As the Army prepares to celebrate its 235th birthday, three women have taken the broad theme of the Army's long tradition and history and transformed it into a series of books designed for children.
June 04, 2010 - "Eagles" from across the history of aviation are sharing their stories with Air Command and Staff College students here this week.
June 04, 2010 - When my 3-year-old asked me why I was going to the desert in 2004, I said, "Daddy has to go feed the camels," and that was enough to sustain his curiosity
June 02, 2010 - Most Airmen of the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing are stationed at Joint Base Balad, but some find themselves at forward operating bases throughout the country as joint expeditionary tasked Airmen.
June 02, 2010 - Goodbyes are always hard, especially when it involves a working relationship 40 years in the making.
June 01, 2010 - Surrounded by a sea of darkness, the 28-year-old airman is well aware of the hundreds of eyes watching his every move. He has been in this situation many times before, but somehow, this time feels different.
June 01, 2010 - The military’s top officer yesterday called on Vietnam Veterans to stay connected with today’s servicemembers, saying their lessons learned, especially with post-traumatic stress disorder, can help veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 31, 2010 - There's a small bulletin board just down the hall from my deployed office that has a simple sign above it that reads, "Why We Fight."
May 30, 2010 - More than 400 motorcycle enthusiasts affiliated with Rolling Thunder, Inc., gathered at the Navy Memorial May 29 to recognize veterans past and present.
May 30, 2010 - The role of U.S. Forces in Iraq continues to evolve with the launch of Operation New Dawn later this year, and the majority of efforts will be re-focused on the responsible transfer of authority to Iraqi Security Forces.
May 27, 2010 - For the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, Army Spc. Kevin Pemberton is the bane of their existence.
May 27, 2010 - The Obama Administration has instituted a “whole-of-government” approach within the new National Security Strategy presented to Congress today.
May 27, 2010 - The deputy defense secretary visited with and thanked the men and women of the 55th Wing for their service in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission May 26 here.
May 27, 2010 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff delivered the commencement for U.S. Air Force Academy graduation 2010 here May 26.
May 26, 2010 - Less than 30 seconds, that's all it takes for 40 container-delivery-system bundles, totaling 70,000 pounds of supplies, to drop out of the back of a C-17 Globemaster III.
May 26, 2010 - Army Staff Sgt. Chris Kleinhans has just about seen it all during his past two-and-a-half years as a trainer/mentor at the Joint Readiness Training Center here.
May 26, 2010 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff challenged the U.S. Air Force Academy's graduating class to embrace a sense of duty and build on the lessons they learned here as they become tomorrow's leaders.
May 25, 2010 - The day kicked off here late last week as a celebration in the fictional Afghan village of Sangari.
May 24, 2010 - The vice chief of the Joint General Staff for the Republic of El Salvador visited Lackland AFB May 10 to 11 to gain insight on Air Force educational and training programs.
May 24, 2010 - With a member of Congress, senior military leaders and state and local dignitaries present, a major milestone was met today at the port through which nine out of every ten rounds of ammunition sent to Iraq and Afghanistan are moved.
May 24, 2010 - On a sunny morning in Boston, more than 2,000 runners gathered on Yawkey Way outside of Fenway Park to run nine kilometers with the finish line being one of the most famous spots in Boston... home plate of Fenway Park.
May 21, 2010 - Sixty-two years ago on July 2, Airmen in the 1-year-old Air Force made history with a mission that airlifted 2.3 million tons of coal, food and supplies to Berlin after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had cut off all ground transportation through Russia.
May 20, 2010 - One year ago, Air Force Senior Airman Brian Petras was flying C-130 Hercules missions around the world.
May 20, 2010 - Mothers or any family member or friend can play a pivotal role in the recovery of servicemembers severely wounded in combat, according to wounded veterans visiting here the day after Mother's Day.
May 19, 2010 - Navy Adm. James Winnefeld accepted command of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., today, succeeding retiring Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr.
May 18, 2010 - More than 1,025 prior Iraqi airmen are participating in a three-week Basic Military Training Top Off program at the Iraqi Air Force Training School here.
May 18, 2010 - The Army recall of 44,000 Advanced Combat Helmets that were issued to Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is the result of a Department of Justice investigation as well as independent tests that show the helmets do not meet Army standards, officials confirme
May 18, 2010 - Iraq combat veteran Troy Yocum is walking 7,000 miles across the nation, banging his drum, gathering followers and trying to meet his goal of raising $5 million for U.S. veterans and their families in need.
May 17, 2010 - Members of the 200th Rapid Engineering Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer Squadron have arrived here to draw down the 557th Expeditionary RED HORSE Squadron from Iraq.
May 17, 2010 - Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Jason Glew is a workhorse. He serves as the company gunnery sergeant for India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, and thrives at juggling multiple tasks at once as India Company fights the Taliban insurgency here.
May 17, 2010 - Tucked away at the entrance of the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, this community of about 6,000 residents welcomed the nation’s second Army Strong Community Center during a grand opening ceremony May 15.
May 17, 2010 - One year ago, Senior Amn. Brian Petras was flying C-130 Hercules missions around the world.
May 17, 2010 - An Air Mobility Command C-17 Globemaster III aircrew delivered approximately 100,000 pounds of humanitarian supplies valued at $250,000 to Tajikistan May 16, following two weeks of flooding and mudslides in the nation.
May 15, 2010 - Oregon National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Matthew Zedwick knows what it's like to be a real american soldier.
May 15, 2010 - The MV-22 Osprey, one of the workhorse aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps., was featured at the 2010 Joint Service Open House May 15, 2010, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.
May 13, 2010 - As American military members and their coalition partners fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, medics from these same countries work in collaboration to treat their battlefield wounds in theater hospitals.
May 11, 2010 - “It’s very humbling,” said Military Spouse Magazine's Army 2010 Spouse of the Year, “and it makes me feel good about the work I have done."
May 10, 2010 - The community of Offutt Air Force Base will observe National Police Week May 9 through 15, culminating in a retreat ceremony.
May 08, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates used the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in Europe to declare war on duplicative overhead, bloat and needless spending in the Defense Department.
May 07, 2010 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wants service members to know it is okay to get help for behavioral health-related conditions.
May 06, 2010 - Rolling Thunder motorcyclists joined Warrior Games athletes in a wreath-laying ceremony today at the Pentagon Memorial here to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
May 06, 2010 - The Army is continuing the most fundamental and profound series of changes it has seen since World War II, the service’s chief of staff said here today.
May 06, 2010 - The inaugural Warrior Games competition May 10 through 14 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., will feature individual and team events and an ultimate champion multi-sport challenge for a Chairman's Cup trophy.
May 05, 2010 - President Barack Obama signed legislation today to improve health care for veterans and to recognize the important role that family caregivers play in the recovery of wounded personnel.
May 05, 2010 - The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have greatly expanded care for servicemembers and veterans with traumatic brain injuries from the battlefield after they’re discharged from rehabilitation centers, officials said today.
May 04, 2010 - The National Guard is transforming itself to meet the threats of the 21st century, but the transition is hard and will be painful for units, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said here today.
May 03, 2010 - Rest and relaxation mixed with reintegration seminars and veteran resources, coupled with plenty of chocolate was the theme for the 60-day Yellow Ribbon Event April 16 to 18 at Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pa.
May 03, 2010 - He'll have a tough time swimming -- and shooting -- and he's got stiff competition from his training buddy. But Sgt. Robert W. Laux wants to take home some metal and recognition from the Warrior Games in Colorado.
April 30, 2010 - Children of military personnel who died in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001, can apply for an educational scholarship similar to the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. Benefits are retroactive to Aug. 1, 2009.
April 29, 2010 - Throughout 2010 and 2011, more than 20,000 Soldiers from Fort Campbell's 101st Airborne Division will deploy to Afghanistan, the first time an entire Army division has deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom within one year.
April 28, 2010 - Not once, but twice. Twice, in 2004 and 2007, a combat photographer who was assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., was wounded in Iraq.
April 27, 2010 - Marine Forces Reserve offers an array of opportunities for those officers who want to live in the spirit of “Once a Marine, always a Marine.”
April 26, 2010 - Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III today thanked the crew of the USS Carl Vinson for their efforts to rescue Haitian people following the earthquake there.
April 26, 2010 - Air National Guard security forces are at the top of their game, their top officer said here April 21.
April 26, 2010 - More than 500 Marines and sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, descended upon a massive training area at Fort Bragg, N.C. to conduct essential training for their upcoming seven-month deployment to Afghanistan.
April 23, 2010 - It was April 2007 and the early-morning sky was clear as Army sniper Sgt. 1st Class Brandon McGuire and his spotter scanned for insurgents near Forward Operating Base Iskandaryia in Iraq.
April 23, 2010 - To mark the 102nd anniversary of the U.S. Army Reserve, a hand-picked group of 60 reservists representing units in every U.S. state and territory re-enlisted together at a ceremony held today on Capitol Hill.
April 23, 2010 - With more than 6,000 veterans committing suicide every year, and 98 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan taking their own lives during fiscal 2009 alone, Department of Veterans Affairs officials are redoubling their outreach to veterans.
April 22, 2010 - At next month’s inaugural Warrior Games, retired Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Tim Lang plans to showcase more than his shooting skills and athletic ability on the wheelchair basketball court.
April 22, 2010 - Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould kicked off the National VA Research Week commemoration here today, marking 85 years of ground-breaking research that’s improving veterans’ lives, including veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
April 21, 2010 - Better understanding of post-combat brain injuries and psychological trauma, coupled with a host of measures to diagnose and treat such disorders, are preventing servicemembers from being unfairly discharged due to undiagnosed conditions.
April 21, 2010 - Warfighters rely on an elite team of professionals who take the fix to the fight repairing battle-damaged equipment in the combat zone.
April 20, 2010 - Ash from an Icelandic volcano limiting European air traffic has forced the U.S. military to reroute some American troops wounded in Afghanistan through Iraq instead of Germany, a military official said today.
April 20, 2010 - In a prelude to this week’s Earth Day events, a major independent research group today called the Defense Department a leader in energy conservation.
April 20, 2010 - Army leaders told members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan during an April 19 hearing that the service is institutionalizing contracting reforms introduced over the last seven years of conflict.
April 19, 2010 - Vice President Joe Biden today praised Iraqi and U.S. security forces for killing two top leaders of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror organization.
April 19, 2010 - Investing in America's military veterans through education and employment opportunities will benefit local communities greatly, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said during the World Leader's Forum.
April 15, 2010 - Military leaders and a host of celebrities came together here yesterday to pay tribute to outstanding servicemembers and other special honorees at a star-studded event.
April 15, 2010 - Air Force officials and Air Force Association representatives have named Air Force remotely piloted aircraft sensor operators as the 2010 Team of the Year.
April 14, 2010 - The U.S. approach on Iran focuses on preventing that country from obtaining nuclear weapons and on countering its influence in the Middle East, the Pentagon’s policy chief said here today.
April 14, 2010 - From the commander in chief in the White House to an Airman manning an observation tower on Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, space is the domain that ties them together.
April 14, 2010 - It's a heady résumé: war hero, veteran pilot, commercial pilot, safety officer, father, grandfather, husband and projects officer: with such an extensive list of credentials to his name, one would expect this Soldier to be incredibly busy.
April 13, 2010 - A mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle towers to nearly the height of an 18-wheeler. Weighing in at more than 20 tons each, MRAPs are designed to survive blasts from roadside bombs and small-arms fire.
April 13, 2010 - While Soldiers from the 7th Cavalry Regiment were assisting Iraqi Security Forces with security they each took time out to present three schools with new books April 11.
April 13, 2010 - Eight battle-wounded veterans of the Iraq war shared lessons learned from their recovery processes with paratroopers here April 6, including advice on suicide prevention.
April 12, 2010 - The chief of Air Force Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer has announced the 2009 Air Force Gen. John P. Jumper Awards for Excellence in Warfighting Integration and the 2009 Air Force Communications and Information Awards.
April 10, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates offered condolences to the Polish military on the loss of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who along with the country's armed service chiefs, died in a plane crash today.
April 09, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today announced the winners of the 2010 Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence.
April 08, 2010 - On her third deployment to Afghanistan, Army Spc. Traci Petaway said it’s the little things she misses most about being back home – holding her husband’s hand or playing in the sand with her 2-year-old daughter, Arabelle.
April 08, 2010 - U.S. Joint Forces Command has developed a computerized training program that immerses ground troops in the sights, sounds and smells of war, officials there say.
April 08, 2010 - Air Force Public Affairs Agency officials here announced the results of the 2009 Air Force Media Contest in writing, photography and broadcasting April 7.
April 07, 2010 - Between weekend drills, overseas deployments, the work in communities during peacekeeping and natural disaster missions, full-time jobs and school, National Guardsmen often find themselves too busy making a difference to find time for their hobbies.
April 07, 2010 - The Army is now 35 percent complete in its effort to move equipment and materiel out of Iraq as part of the U.S. withdrawal from that country.
April 07, 2010 - As the final rotation of the 732nd Air Expeditionary Group chaplain office draws to a close, the two-person team went on a final mission to neighboring forward operating bases around Baghdad International Airport.
April 06, 2010 - For some military members, the call to duty is surpassed only by the call to help others.
April 06, 2010 - Army veteran Patrick McDonald loved serving his country, but after a tragic training accident in South Korea in 1991, his four-year military career came to an end.
April 06, 2010 - Suppressing a beachhead with heavy firepower before landing Marines to fight the enemy seems very unlikely nowadays, but that doesn’t mean the Marines won’t be ready if ever faced with the situation.
April 05, 2010 - With 60 percent of the surge force yet to be delivered to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama’s August deadline, the commander charged with making it happen said he has assured commanders that everything is on track.
April 05, 2010 - In the lead-up to the summer fighting season in Afghanistan, the Defense Department is focused on helping troops counter the threat of makeshift bombs, employing among other things, cameras to catch insurgents in the act of planting explosives.
April 05, 2010 - The Defense secretary related to U.S. Air Force Academy cadets some lessons he has learned from a government career that has taken him from the shadows of the Cold War into a much-altered security landscape as the Pentagon's chief.
April 02, 2010 - The massive amount of equipment and supplies being sent to support troops in Afghanistan is a historic logistical effort critical to mission success there, the Defense Department’s undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics said today.
April 02, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates traveled here yesterday to personally present U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) with the Joint Meritorious Unit Award.
April 01, 2010 - U.S. special operations forces in Iraq will remain at current levels even as the number of American troops there is nearly halved over the next five months, the top special operations commander said today.
April 01, 2010 - In a popular movie, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," a group of teenage girls keep in contact with each other by sharing a pair of jeans.
April 01, 2010 - Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. asked the crowd of about 2,000 how they were doing and after a hearty "Hooha" response, he proceeded to tell them how they were doing.
April 01, 2010 - Outlining his vision for the future of the Army, Joseph W. Westphal, under secretary of the Army, framed his message with a focus on creative sustainability for attendees at the March 29 Association of the Army's Installations Symposium and Exposition.
April 01, 2010 - The Army wants to develop critical thinkers who are better prepared for "hybrid" enemies and complex situations - such as those being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
April 01, 2010 - Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, someone is washing vehicles and equipment at the wash rack on Camp Arifjan.
March 31, 2010 - About 400 disabled veterans here for the 24th annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic -- including about 150 veterans of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan -- aren’t anticipating pulling April Fools pranks tomorrow.
March 31, 2010 - Dependable. Determined. Motivated. Those are just three of the many words Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Derrick Hayes, assistant staff noncommissioned officer in charge of the flammables section for 2nd Supply Battalion, uses to describe Cpl. Dana Hineline.
March 30, 2010 - Air Force veteran Sean Halsted was a decent skier before he fell 40 feet out of a helicopter while on a fast rope during a search-and-rescue training exercise in 1998.
March 30, 2010 - Air Force veteran Sean Halsted was a decent skier before he fell 40 feet out of a helicopter while on a fast rope during a search-and-rescue training exercise in 1998.
March 29, 2010 - Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki opened the 24th Annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic here last night, encouraging participants to conquer the mountain and prove to themselves what they’re able to achieve.
March 29, 2010 - Separated by seven time zones, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, a deployed U.S. paratrooper and his stateside wife celebrated the strength and resilience of America’s wounded warriors with synchronized 50-mile runs March 20-21.
March 29, 2010 - Walking among skiers preparing to hit the slopes here during the first day of the National Disabled American Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki noticed a long row of lonely wheelchairs just beyond the staging area.
March 27, 2010 - As a part of the Army's ongoing commitment to address the problem of sexual harassment/sexual assault and eliminate them from its ranks, the Army will hold its third Sexual Harassment/Sexual Assault Prevention Summit in Arlington, Va.
March 26, 2010 - Perhaps no other weapon platform has more significantly transformed the way the U.S. military wages war in recent years than unmanned aircraft, a senior defense official told Congress March 24 here.
March 26, 2010 - Ships of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group returned to their homeport of San Diego March 26 after an eight-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility (AOR).
March 26, 2010 - The American Red Cross - we're confident it'll be on hand to lend support when a major disaster occurs, but did you know it's also there to help individual servicemembers and their families in times of need?
March 26, 2010 - At the time, Iran was in a war with Iraq and had recently dismantled its U.S. embassy and held 53 U.S. hostages who were released in 1981.
March 25, 2010 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urged senators today to quickly approve a $37.5 billion supplemental budget request to fund ongoing operations.
March 24, 2010 - This summer will mark the first time since 2003 that the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will overshadow the American presence in Iraq, the top U.S. military officer told Congress today.
March 24, 2010 - The Defense Department is “extremely invested” in the early detection of traumatic brain injury, and is pushing new guidelines and numerous research initiatives to the front burner to aid in that effort, a brain injury expert said today.
March 24, 2010 - The 20-by 30-foot flag thousands of patients have passed under on their way to the Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad often is photographed in military circles.
March 23, 2010 - The end of the Cold War made effective missile defense possible, Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said here yesterday.
March 23, 2010 - Defense Department officials here announced March 22 that Iraq and Afghanistan have been designated as nonchargeable rest and recuperation locations.
March 23, 2010 - "It all started with an early [canoe ride] up the Zambezi River,” said Cpl. Justin Trinidad, a Marine security guard with Detachment Harare, Zimbabwe, Marine Corps Embassy Security Group.
March 22, 2010 - When women were first allowed to enlist in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, they did not qualify with weapons and they were not required to learn hand-to-hand combat, but they received instruction on etiquette and how to wear makeup.
March 22, 2010 - Some deployed servicemembers will not be charged for rest and recuperation leave under a new Defense Department policy.
March 22, 2010 - The commander of Air Combat Command visited the 366th Fighter Wing Airmen here March 7 and 8 to see them firsthand, thank them for their sacrifices and gain a better understanding of their mission, capabilities and challenges.
March 20, 2010 - The nation depends upon women, both military and civilian, at all levels of the Defense Department, from the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan to the upper echelons of military command, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here March 19.
March 19, 2010 - A former White House staff photographer who started photographing Iraq in 2003 said yesterday that comparing old images to recent ones presents a picture of staggering economic growth there.
March 19, 2010 - An A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot recalled a harrowing mission she flew in Iraq for an audience at the Women's History Month luncheon here March 15.
March 19, 2010 - A new threat environment means a transformed National Guard should maintain its force after drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Guard’s highest-ranking general said here this week.
March 18, 2010 - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has appointed six new members to the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans, an expert panel that advises Department of Veterans Affairs officials on a wide array of issues affecting women veterans.
March 17, 2010 - One of the U.S. military’s greatest advantages over its adversaries is its ability to move an enormous amount of people and equipment quickly anywhere in the world.
March 17, 2010 - Soldiers should find themselves spending twice as much time at home station as they do deployed by 2011, the Army's vice chief of staff said on Capitol Hill yesterday.
March 17, 2010 - Army Lt. Col. Marc Hoffmeister has endured some of the most grueling conditions on the planet.
March 17, 2010 - The military’s increasing practice of training and equipping indigenous forces to counter terrorism in their home countries is a highly decisive, comparatively low-cost approach to fighting global terrorism.
March 17, 2010 - Army Cpl. Adam J. Fargo, a medic, was killed by a homemade bomb while on patrol in Iraq more than three years ago.
March 16, 2010 - The Army Test and Evaluation Command has been deploying teams to the Iraq and Afghanistan theater to assess new systems under combat conditions.
March 15, 2010 - While flying on United Airlines last week, I overheard a telephone conversation from a gentleman seated directly behind me. His words went something like this: "Although today was an extremely sad day for me, it was absolutely the happiest day of my life.
March 15, 2010 - The Defense Department's family care plan policy will be expanded in the coming months to encompass a wider population of military parents, a defense legal expert said.
March 12, 2010 - In addition to the surge of military forces in Afghanistan and the drawdown in the U.S. military presence in Iraq, U.S. officials are implementing a “whole of government” approach in both countries.
March 12, 2010 - When a servicemember is critically injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and in need of a blood transfusion, it is the responsibility of technicians in the 932nd Blood Support Detachment here to ensure units of blood platelets are collected and shipped.
March 11, 2010 - U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command are “inextricably linked” and share an “indispensible partnership,” the commander of both commands said here today.
March 10, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates asked Saudi King Abdallah today to use his country’s influence to convince other nations to support United Nations sanctions on Iran, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said here.
March 09, 2010 - A white-painted blast wall standing in front of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry, headquarters here bearing the names of 22 fallen soldiers was a sobering reminder to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates of the cost of the war.
March 09, 2010 - When he was a child, visiting the Philippines was all about vacationing and fun with the family for C.J. Rueda.
March 09, 2010 - Four junior and 20 sophomore U.S. Air Force Academy cadets received the first unmanned aerial systems-remotely piloted aircraft wings awarded in the school's 55-year history during a function at the Dean's Heritage House Feb. 25, here.
March 09, 2010 - Soldiers spoke and the Army listened. Officials will debut a new device designed to combat the deadly threat of improvised explosive devices during a Florida conference later this month.
March 08, 2010 - Thirteen Marines here tested a U.S. Joint Forces Command interactive training simulation during a demonstration Feb. 23 to March 4.
March 07, 2010 - The Iraqi election process shows how far the country has come, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
March 07, 2010 - President Barack Obama called today's parliamentarian elections in Iraq as a "milestone" event and vowed to keep his pledge to remove all U.S. troops from that country by the end of next year.
March 07, 2010 - Despite sectarian and ethnic differences across Iraq’s political landscape, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said he expects new Iraqi leaders will continue their previous government’s efforts to employ inclusive coalitions to bridge those divides.
March 05, 2010 - The Washington Capitals showed their support for America’s armed forces with their seventh annual “Salute to the Military” appreciation night event held yesterday at the Verizon Center here.
March 05, 2010 - A computer-based game is helping to support the training of military commanders and their staffs in counterinsurgency and stability operations.
March 05, 2010 - The training conducted during Forest Light, a bilateral exercise between U.S. forces and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, has the added benefit of helping troops maintain combat mindsets and stay sharp on their units tactics.
March 04, 2010 - As a student at the Command and General Staff War College here, part of Maj. Jackie Thompson’s studies have included examining how broad economic theories relate to warfare.
March 04, 2010 - Headquarters Marine Corps recently established the Command Support Team Detachment to expedite fulfillment of critical communications equipment shortfalls throughout the Marine Corps.
March 03, 2010 - After Sept. 11, 2001 Staff Sgt. Sparkle Reid was a different person. She wasn't like most Americans who were changed by the events themselves but more so in that she was in one of the 2,973 families who grieved after losing a family member in the tragedy.
March 03, 2010 - A team of military and civilian doctors performed the first-ever female hand transplant in the U.S. Feb. 17 at Wilford Hall Medical Center here.
March 03, 2010 - Marines with 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st and 3rd Combat Engineer Battalions and 11th Marine Regiment participated in an excavator course to receive their licenses at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 23-26.
March 02, 2010 - Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, has been labeled a "signature injury" of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also occurs in non-combat settings in association with motor vehicle accidents, sports injuries, assaults and falls.
March 02, 2010 - In July 2006, an activation ceremony was conducted for Food Service Company, but due to the high operational tempo of that time and the shortage of personnel to fill key leadership positions, the regimental commander decided to furl the company's guidon.
March 01, 2010 - The leaders of the Bronco Brigade met with Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. in a roundtable discussion about Comprehensive Soldier Fitness during his visit here, Feb. 26.
February 26, 2010 - Marines with Military Police Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, attended a two-day metal detecting course aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 22 -23.
February 25, 2010 - Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, joined USO volunteers here Feb. 23 in putting together care packages for the families of 3,000 Florida National Guard servicemembers who will deploy in the coming weeks.
February 24, 2010 - The United States is in the middle of a “cultural transformation” in mental health treatment led by the Defense Department and the military services, the department’s top mental health expert told a congressional panel today.
February 23, 2010 - Today's global environment calls for Airmen to have the knowledge, skills and attitudes with which to build partnerships and effectively communicate with international partners and potential adversaries, manpower and personnel officials said Feb. 22 here.
February 22, 2010 - Eliminating foreign terrorists and their safe havens in the southern Philippines is the No. 1 priority of U.S. forces deployed here, said Army Col. Bill Coultrup, the region’s top U.S. military officer.
February 22, 2010 - The commander of the Royal Netherlands air force visited the Air Education and Training Command headquarters Feb. 14 through 16 to learn more about remotely piloted aircraft, strategic airlift and space.
February 20, 2010 - Starting this summer, Soldiers sent to fight in Afghanistan will wear an Army Combat Uniform with the "MultiCam" pattern instead of the standard-issue universal camouflage pattern.
February 19, 2010 - The only thing worse than obsolete weapons in war is obsolete thinking, a top U.S. commander cautioned in remarks on revitalizing America’s military officer corps.
February 19, 2010 - Dozens of veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima and their families gathered at the National Museum of the Marine Corps here today to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the iconic World War II battle.
February 19, 2010 - Two Air Force generals explained the importance of the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard to the on-call Air Force during the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition Feb. 19 here.
February 19, 2010 - The Air Force secretary discussed the outlook for the Air Force's future during the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition Feb. 18 here.
February 18, 2010 - The Civilian Expeditionary Workforce, introduced in January 2009, is up and running at full speed.
February 18, 2010 - Department of Defense officials recently named the two Air Force winners of the 2010 DOD African-American History Month Recognition Awards.
February 17, 2010 - Internal strife that tore Colombia apart in the 1990s affected the lives of many, including a 15-year-old now deployed here as a sergeant in the U.S. Army.
February 16, 2010 - Since the Army introduced the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program in October 2009, there has been much focus on a holistic approach to physical, emotional, social, spiritual and family well-being.
February 16, 2010 - More than 40 space warfighters from the U.S. and deployed locations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Southwest Asia attended the Theater Space Conference Feb. 8 through 10 here,
February 12, 2010 - Soldiers and airmen of the District of Columbia National Guard continue to help in the wake of back-to-back storms that dumped several feet of snow on the nation’s capital.
February 12, 2010 - More than 2,600 athletes from nearly 90 nations will kick-off the 2010 Winter Olympics during opening ceremonies Feb. 12, and Air Mobility Command Airmen will play a supporting role.
February 12, 2010 - While the 155th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), prepares to re-deploy in early March, it simultaneously prepares for its stateside mission should a hurricane hit the Mississippi gulf coast.
February 12, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during an interview aired last night that the effort to build up Iraq's security forces and move forward with the U.S. drawdown plan there remains on track.
February 10, 2010 - The Defense Department's review of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law will help to ensure readiness and unit cohesion remain intact if Congress repeals it.
February 10, 2010 - Air Mobility Command Airmen worked hand-in-hand with Army Soldiers to provide much needed relief to since a 7.0 earthquake struck there Jan. 12.
February 08, 2010 - A tiny bug bite recently prompted a small child in Kenya to walk alone for eight hours and admit himself to a clinic specializing in parasitic diseases.
February 05, 2010 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today pledged surplus mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles along with expanded access to classified information to U.S. allies to help in combating the threat of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan.
February 03, 2010 - Army Capt. Matt Pratt and his songstress wife, Lisa, lived the dream in southern California Feb. 1, thanks to an Army morale and recreation program that supports soldiers and their families.
February 03, 2010 - The Army revealed its Fiscal Year 2011 budgets Feb. 1, including $143 billion to fund training and sustainment of the total force, and an additional $102 billion to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
February 03, 2010 - Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. visited the newly organized 162nd Infantry Brigade, responsible for training combat advisors for Iraq and Afghanistan, during his trip to the Joint Readiness Training Center, Jan. 29.
February 02, 2010 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not speak about money today during his testimony on the fiscal 2011 defense budget request before the Senate Armed Services Committee, but rather what that money will do.
February 02, 2010 - Capt. Matt Pratt and his wife Lisa lived the dream of the Army Family Covenant on Feb. 1, in Southern California.
February 02, 2010 - Soldier, Infantryman, Airborne Ranger, combat diver, mountain climber, skier, triathlete, surfer, husband and father are just a few words to describe Capt. Scotty Smiley.
February 01, 2010 - A dozen Iraqi women journalists met with Western and U.S. military women journalists to exchange ideas and promote journalism for women in Iraq Jan. 23 at Coalition Operating Base Adder, Iraq.
February 01, 2010 - Air Force Global Strike Command officials here assumed responsibility for the Air Force's nuclear-capable bomber force Feb. 1.
February 01, 2010 - To expand health care to a record-number of veterans, reduce the number of homeless veterans and process a dramatically increased number of new disability compensation claims, White House officials announced a proposed $125 billion budget next year.
February 01, 2010 - Air Force officials here reinforced their commitment to fund and support today's operations while posturing for future challenges through the service's portion of the president's fiscal year 2011 budget announced Feb. 1.
January 29, 2010 - It took a few trips to the grocery store before Army Capt. Matthew Staton realized he needed help.
January 29, 2010 - Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley announced Jan. 27 during a Pentagon ceremony that the next Fisher House will be established on Dover Air Force Base, Del.
January 28, 2010 - A tiny bug bite recently prompted a boy in Kenya, Africa, to walk alone for eight hours and admit himself to a clinic that specializes in parasitic diseases.
January 28, 2010 - President Barack Obama stressed during his State of the Union address tonight the importance of confronting terrorists who threaten the United States and of succeeding in Afghanistan while continuing a responsible military drawdown in Iraq.
January 28, 2010 - National Football League representatives visited Airmen, civilians and earthquake victims Jan. 27 at Homestead Air Reserve Base.
January 27, 2010 - Born a 1950s baby boomer, I grew up during the Cold War with the threat of nuclear holocaust looming on the horizon. As a little girl, I had dreams in which Russian troops swarmed over the hill in our back yard.
January 27, 2010 - A three-person medical team from the Wright-Patterson Medical Center here is providing aeromedical evacuation support to assist victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
January 26, 2010 - President Barack Obama's fiscal 2011 budget request calls for a record $8.8 billion for military family support programs, First Lady Michelle Obama told military spouses today at Bolling Air Force Base here.
January 26, 2010 - An Air Force lieutenant was posthumously awarded the National Intelligence Medal for Valor for her efforts to teach Afghan military officials how to gather and interpret military intelligence Jan. 22 here.
January 26, 2010 - As the eldest of six children, Capt. Kate Gowel always felt a desire to lead. She first led the way into the military -- a path all five of her siblings soon followed -- and later led the way in her career as a military lawyer.
January 25, 2010 - The Defense Department’s Military Health System has never played a clearer or more important role in the security of the nation, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs said today.
January 25, 2010 - The 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force transferred authority of Iraq’s largest province to the Army’s 1st Armored Division in a Jan. 23 ceremony here that marked the end of the Marine Corps’ mission in Iraq.
January 25, 2010 - Members of the Iraqi Army and Federal Police got hands-on rifle training from the best in the business at Contingency Operating Station Cashe South during a six-day advanced marksmanship training course.
January 23, 2010 - Over the past six years, thousands of Marines deployed to Al Anbar province, Iraq, the largest and once most volatile province in the country.
January 22, 2010 - The Air Force must be able to operate across a spectrum of conflicts, using a myriad of warfare tools and tactics, while keeping up with advancing technologies and the ways the nation’s adversaries use them, the service’s top officer said here this week.
January 22, 2010 - The Army kicks off another year of readiness musters, Jan. 23, for some 14,000 Soldiers in the Individual Ready Reserve.
January 21, 2010 - Current and potential U.S. adversaries seek to employ asymmetrical weapons, such as improvised explosive devices and cyber warfare, as a means to confront U.S. military superiority in conventional conflict, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III sai
January 21, 2010 - On the final day of the 2010 Army Family Action Plan conference last week, delegates broke from their individual working groups and voted on their top five issues, three of which involve services for wounded or ill warriors.
January 20, 2010 - You could hear the crowd before you could see it. From the top of the hill that serves as a landing zone for disaster relief here, the crowd looked massive, the largest yet at this U.S. military relief point.
January 20, 2010 - Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida is playing a vital role in moving essential medical supplies, equipment and military support to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
January 20, 2010 - In early 1982, Cedar Springs, Mich., had a population of more than 2,600 people. Among them was 20-year-old Suzan Simmons, destined to become Chief Master Sergeant Suzan Sangster.
January 19, 2010 - Army Spc. Jonathan Emard, 20, was killed June 4, 2008, in Tikrit, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small-arms fire and hand grenades.
January 18, 2010 - Viewers get an inside look at the coordinated effort of providing security for a base in Iraq.
January 15, 2010 - Air Mobility Command aircraft and personnel are actively involved in relief operations in Haiti following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation Jan. 12.
January 15, 2010 - After 2,500 years of retirement, a former general has been hired as a military consultant to help troops cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
January 15, 2010 - As U.S. military forces work to provide initial relief to Haiti in the wake of a massive Jan. 12 earthquake there, it’s difficult to say how long that support will last, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
January 14, 2010 - Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. delivered their 2010 plan for the Army to the most senior NCOs here during the annual Sergeant Major of the Army Nominative conference.
January 13, 2010 - As special guests of the Air Force Culture and Language Center staff, 20 instructors from the Defense Language Institute in Washington, D.C., and Monterey, Calif., are helping Air War College and Air Command and Staff College students.
January 13, 2010 - Suicide is a growing problem in the military community, and its leaders must be committed to reversing that trend, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today.
January 12, 2010 - Six soldiers added finishing touches to the new Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facility on Victory Base Complex here Jan. 7.
January 12, 2010 - When retired Army Maj. Ed Pulido was medically evacuated from Iraq in August 2004, he knew tough challenges were ahead, as he’d have to learn to live without his left leg.
January 12, 2010 - After World War I, a hit single begged the question, “How do you keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?”
January 11, 2010 - One in five servicemembers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffers from major depression or post traumatic stress disorder, according to officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
January 11, 2010 - When Staff Sgt. Megan Krause returned home from a deployment in Iraq in 2006, she thought the scariest moments of her life were over.
January 10, 2010 - Executing the president’s strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan presents his biggest challenge, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told CNN host Fareed Zakaria today.
January 08, 2010 - Kelly Henry was hoping for a picture-perfect reunion when her husband returned after a yearlong deployment to Iraq.
January 07, 2010 - In the wake of a Dec. 31 suicide bombing attack that killed seven CIA operatives in eastern Afghanistan, the military’s highest-ranking officer yesterday underscored the close ties between American armed forces and the U.S. intelligence community.
January 06, 2010 - The United States will pursue “any and all means possible” to support the Yemeni government as it confronts the terrorist threat within its borders that threatened the United States directly in a failed Dec. 25 attack.
January 04, 2010 - The Air Force and Naval academy football teams triumphed in their respective bowl games Jan. 2, shining a spotlight on the servicemember-athletes comprising the rosters and the armed forces they represent.
January 04, 2010 - The Air Force's newest expeditionary unit, the 586th Expeditionary Support Squadron, was activated in a special ceremony Jan. 2 at an air base in Southwest Asia.
January 04, 2010 - Following the deactivation of the 887th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Airmen from the 820th Security Forces Group, Moody Air Force Base, Ga., finally said goodbye to their home away from home for the past three years.
January 04, 2010 - On hand for a pair of service academy football bowl games in Texas Jan. 2 , Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, underscored the symbolism of the matchups for troops around the world.
January 01, 2010 - The U.S. Central Command chief put the Al-Qaida threat in Yemen in perspective during a news conference in Baghdad today.
January 01, 2010 - The new year brought a new command to Iraq as Multinational Forces Iraq furled its colors, replaced by U.S. Forces Iraq during a ceremony at the al-Faw Palace in Baghdad.
January 01, 2010 - Progress in Iraq will continue as American forces draw down in the next year, U.S. commanders in Iraq said today.
December 31, 2009 - Army Staff Sgt. Brain K. Pascual likes to get out and tell soldiers about their re-enlistment options as part of his work as a career counselor in Iraq.
December 31, 2009 - A team of Airmen handles thousands of passengers, pallets and vehicles flying into Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.
December 30, 2009 - the real winners of the Eaglebank Bowl in Washington, D.C were wounded Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen who benefit by involvement with the bowl game's charity partner "The Wounded Warrior Project."
December 30, 2009 - Third Army's involvement in the drawdown of U.S. troops and equipment in Iraq has served an important role in completing the mission and bringing U.S. servicemembers home.
December 30, 2009 - Alive day is a term dubbed by a number of injured combat veterans to describe the day they escaped death. Some were left with scrapes and bruises, others lost their limbs and, for some, there would be emotional wounds.
December 29, 2009 - Georgia Air National Guardsmen assigned to the 165th Air Support Operations Squadron have teamed up with 48th Infantry Brigade soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.
December 29, 2009 - Thirty years ago today, Dec. 29, my father forever changed my life, as well as the lives of his other family members. He took a shotgun and shot himself in the head. His death certificate reads, "Self-inflicted gunshot wound."
December 28, 2009 - U.S. Army scouts are helping Iraqi army commandos in securing their country.
December 28, 2009 - Defense Department leaders have launched a study on the possible long-term effects of the smoke emitted from burn pits used in overseas locations such as Iraq.
December 25, 2009 - Not many people can say they received a phone call from the president of the United States on Christmas Eve.
December 24, 2009 - The first blind student to attend the Maneuver Captain's Career Course here graduated with his class Dec. 15 in a ceremony attended by family and friends.
December 24, 2009 - Mention “Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar” around a native Minnesotan in Iraq, and you’re almost guaranteed a glazed-eyed expression and rambling murmurs of longing.
December 24, 2009 - Ophthalmic surgeons here are the first in the Defense Department to employ a state-of-the-art laser that will shorten recovery times for corneal transplantation.
December 23, 2009 - During his first trip downrange as Secretary of the Army, John McHugh was in familiar territory in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well during his subsequent visit to wounded warriors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center today.
December 21, 2009 - The Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy takes primacy in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s guidance for 2010.
December 21, 2009 - Conference attendees addressed issues related to unmanned aircraft systems' access into the national airspace system Dec. 9 through 11 here.
December 20, 2009 - Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said his trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq has given him an opportunity to assess changes in strategy and meet the men and women who will carry out that strategy.
December 19, 2009 - The teamwork between Iraqi and American security forces is behind the vast improvements in Iraq, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said during a news conference here today.
December 19, 2009 - Iraq “is not going to be pushed around” by Iran, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill said here today.
December 18, 2009 - Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said what drives him as he crunches numbers and relentlessly scrutinizes Defense Department programs and systems is knowing their impact on front-line troops.
December 18, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates challenged the graduates of the University of Georgia this morning to consider the obligations of service, citizenship and patriotism as they move forward into the next chapter of their lives.
December 15, 2009 - When Marines hear they must live at a small patrol base for a long time, many think of primitive facilities, dirty conditions and bland, packaged meals coming from brown bags.
December 15, 2009 - Public fascination with television's "CSI" forensic detectives and with the virtual reality depicted in the "Matrix" films may be partly responsible for the high level of interest garnered by a Defense Department contest to solve cyber crimes.
December 14, 2009 - U.S. soldiers, family members and friends have brought the gift of sight to an Iraqi baby born blind with congenital cataracts.
December 14, 2009 - The Arlington Wreath Project, an unofficial national tradition, prompted about 6,000 volunteers to wake up extra early this morning to help place 16,000 wreaths on graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
December 11, 2009 - Officials of the Metropolitan New York USO held their 48th Annual Armed Forces Gala and Gold Medal Dinner and honored the only five living Air Force Medal of Honor recipients Dec. 9 in New York City.
December 11, 2009 - Hearts Apart morale program members organized an annual holiday party to help families adjust to seperation from deployments Dec. 4 at Hurlburt Field.
December 10, 2009 - A Robins Air Force Base team is working to resolve a top equipment issue for warfighters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
December 10, 2009 - Results from the 2009 Navy Physical Readiness Quick Poll released Dec. 10, reveal positive fitness perceptions among Sailors.
December 09, 2009 - Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band entertained servicemembers at Forward Operating Base Warrior in Kirkuk, Iraq, Dec. 2.
December 08, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here today to ensure troops in Afghanistan have what they need to accommodate the incoming 30,000 soldiers and Marines, and to tell them, “We are in this thing to win.”
December 08, 2009 - Defense Department officials highlighted the Pentagon's programs for people with disabilities Dec. 8 and recognized accomplishments of employees with disabilities.
December 07, 2009 - Members of the 887th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron officially ended operations during a deactivation ceremony Dec. 3 at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
December 06, 2009 - In a joint message to senior Army leaders on Dec. 2, Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr. stated that the Afghanistan troop increase will not affect plans underway to restore balance.
December 03, 2009 - Realignment of military medical facilities in the national capital region ordered by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission is on track to meet the commission’s deadline, senior Defense Department officials said here yesterday.
December 03, 2009 - July 2011 is not a withdrawal date, but a specific target date for beginning to transition security responsibility to Afghan forces, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on several morning talk shows today.
December 03, 2009 - Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James A. Roy spoke with and visited deployed servicemembers at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, during his first U.S. Central Command area of responsibility tour.
December 01, 2009 - When Airmen deploy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan they accomplish difficult and challenging missions. Unfortunately some return injured or even having paid the ultimate price for freedom.
December 01, 2009 - The Afghanistan strategy review included many options, but President Barack Obama deemed the increase of 30,000 U.S. troops to institute counterinsurgency operations was the best one.
November 30, 2009 - A young Army captain wounded in Iraq and now working to improve conditions for other wounded servicemembers will be honored by the Business Executives for National Service tonight in New York.
November 30, 2009 - Airmen and Iraqi army technicians destroyed a stockpile of captured munitions and improvised explosive device components weighing close to 1,200 pounds Nov. 24, at a range outside of Baghdad, Iraq.
November 30, 2009 - According to air mobility experts on the ground in Iraq, initial results of the ongoing U.S. Army direct support mission Concept of Operations test there indicate what Air Force and Air Mobility Command officials have said all along: the Air Force support
November 27, 2009 - President Barack Obama and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, released Thanksgiving messages today.
November 25, 2009 - In the midst of a nondescript Middle Eastern-style village, 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team soldiers interact with the local inhabitants the same as they have done day in and day out on routine patrols.
November 25, 2009 - The commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command took time from his tour of the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Operations on Nov. 25 to meet with Sailors in Bahrain.
November 25, 2009 - How do you plan Thanksgiving dinner for 180,000 people more than 6,000 miles away? If you're a food buyer at the Defense Logistics Agency, you start by making a shopping list in April for meals to be served to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
November 24, 2009 - As Army Sgt. First Class John Wright lay in a hospital room after being wounded in Afghanistan this summer, he probably didn’t envision himself feeling especially thankful a few months later.
November 24, 2009 - Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, who spent 25 years in the Army on active duty and in the Reserve, was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery Monday. Warman was one of the 13 people killed in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, Nov. 5.
November 23, 2009 - President Barack Obama and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, released Thanksgiving messages today.
November 23, 2009 - A theory gaining momentum among counterinsurgency and military medical experts is that the health of a nation's people affects the health of a nation.
November 21, 2009 - An estimated 120,000 Soldiers and veterans are now eligible for retroactive Stop-Loss Special Pay.
November 21, 2009 - The Army released suicide statistics for the month of October and the total number of suicides, suspected and confirmed, for 2009. Data indicates the number of Soldiers taking their own lives has surpassed numbers recorded at the same time last year.
November 20, 2009 - The Army is revamping the curriculum to take lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan and build more effective close-quarters fighters, said Matt Larsen, the school's director.
November 20, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told a National Guard conference today he sees benefits of a new plan that allows reserve-component servicemembers to conduct pre-deployment training before the clock starts ticking on their 12-month mobilization cycles.
November 18, 2009 - The top teachers in the Defense Department’s worldwide school system were recognized yesterday by the U.S. military’s senior officer at a Pentagon ceremony.
November 18, 2009 - The leaves are changing color at Arlington National Cemetery – a bright backdrop for something as sobering as a funeral. An Army chaplain in his dress blues presents a folded flag to the fallen’s next of kin, a man who looks to be in his 40s.
November 18, 2009 - The USO has changed a lot in 68 years and today marked another milestone in the group’s history of supporting the military when it sponsored a care package service specifically for female servicemembers.
November 18, 2009 - At the Air Force Warfare Center here, lessons learned supporting ground troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are being shared with the aviation community and incorporated into the training as quickly as they're developed.
November 18, 2009 - He was there, and then he was gone. It was just a glimpse in the night of Oct. 31. She continued to exit the C-130 Hercules that had just landed at this air base in Southwest Asia, still scanning her surroundings to see if it could be.
November 17, 2009 - The rate of soldier suicides continues to concern Army leadership, with 211 active-duty and reserve-component suicides confirmed this year, the Army’s No. 2 officer told Pentagon reporters today.
November 16, 2009 - It has been said the first deployment is always the hardest. Marines pack up what they need and off they go to a new home in a foreign land. But what of the home they left behind?
November 16, 2009 - A little bit of home made its way to this remote base in Iraq’s Maysan province recently, as soldiers tested their skills in a barbecue competition.
November 13, 2009 - The number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reporting psychological problems is at its lowest since 2004, while morale among military units in Afghanistan has fallen significantly over the past two years, according to Army reports released today.
November 13, 2009 - Senior federal officials here Nov. 12 pledged their support of President Barack Obama's directive to increase the hiring of military veterans.
November 13, 2009 - The Air Force's first unmanned aircraft systems wing already is on the case in its never-ending quest to provide more and better intelligence through the systems they fly.
November 12, 2009 - Generations of American servicemembers braved and survived the din, destruction and uncertainty of war to return home to enjoy the freedoms they helped to preserve for their fellow citizens.
November 11, 2009 - Ever wonder what the significance is of the little red flowers that the Veterans of Foreign Wars hand out? What are they and what do they mean? The answer to the first question is simple. They are poppies. Red-flowered corn poppies.
November 11, 2009 - Today’s military is the “best-equipped, best trained, best educated, and the most competent military in the history of mankind,” Vice President Joe Biden told 240 servicemembers and veterans at his home at the U.S. Naval Observatory today.
November 11, 2009 - First Lady Michelle Obama today urged all Americans, including military veterans, to put their skills to use in volunteer service to assist U.S. communities and citizens in need.
November 11, 2009 - The nation will long remember those who were killed during the Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, President Obama said during a memorial service there this afternoon.
November 10, 2009 - A recent Facebook post by a U.S. soldier heading home from Iraq highlights some of the nonmilitary roles American troops often assume in today’s counterinsurgency wars.
November 10, 2009 - It’s 2 a.m., and the intelligence electronic warfare maintenance section of the 1st Armored Division’s 4th Brigade here is ready to spark into action.
November 10, 2009 - Thousands of soldiers, veterans, military family members and civilian employees gathered here beneath brilliant blue skies to bid an emotional farewell to 13 of their own killed during last week’s shooting rampage, and to support the families left behind.
November 10, 2009 - The Air Force's top leaders remind the entire Air Force family that this holiday has a meaning beyond a "day off" from work in a Veterans Day message.
November 09, 2009 - The Army has worked hard on developing programs to maintain the psychological health of the service, but much more needs to be done, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said yesterday.
November 09, 2009 - In this edition of "Today's Air Force," medical evacuation specialists in Germany hit a major milestone, Airmen in Iraq take charge of security for Joint Base Balad, and a sick woman takes part in an art program designed to help cancer patients.
November 09, 2009 - Deployed and hospitalized servicemembers are expected to make about 120,000 calls home this Veterans Day, and it won't cost them one thin dime.
November 07, 2009 - President Barack Obama expressed his sorrow over the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas, and praised the soldiers and civilians who responded to aid the wounded in his weekly address to the nation today.
November 07, 2009 - After a moment of silence for those killed in the shootings Nov. 5, at Fort Hood, Texas, Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh and Chief of Staff of the Army George W. Casey Jr. addressed Soldiers, family members and the press.
November 05, 2009 - When the National Training Center opened here in 1981, it presented the most realistic training environment imaginable to prepare troops for a potential large-scale, tank-on-tank confrontation with the Soviet Union in Germany’s Fulda Gap.
November 05, 2009 - ESPN's "College GameDay" crew will broadcast live from the U.S. Air Force Academy 8 to 10 a.m. Nov. 7 from the Terrazzo for the Air Force vs. Army football game.
November 05, 2009 - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs is joining with the Library of Congress to offer "Veterans History Countdown" on the VA Web site featuring the oral histories of veterans from every state and U.S.
November 04, 2009 - The military’s top officer today urged mental health providers to demonstrate leadership in developing effective programs to treat wounded warriors.
November 04, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will travel to the factory line of the newest version of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle next week to personally thank the workers for their efforts to speed delivery of the vehicles to warfighters.
November 03, 2009 - Members of the 19th Airlift Wing from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., took the lead at the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise 10-01 held here Oct. 25 through 29.
November 03, 2009 - The new Army secretary received an official welcome from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the Army's top uniformed officer today at a ceremony held in Conmy Hall on Fort Myer, Va.
November 02, 2009 - A few Soldiers, Marines and civilians work with equipment right out of the pages of yesterday's science fiction when they keep a fleet of robots in the fight at the Joint Robotics Repair Detachment, or JRRD.
November 02, 2009 - For the first time ever, the Air National Guard will be the sole operator of a new aircraft straight off the assembly line.
October 31, 2009 - Marine Corps participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom is drawing to a close as Marines, sailors and equipment make their way back home or to other parts of the globe.
October 29, 2009 - Working together as a team is the advice the Air Force military family of the year has for coping with frequent deployments.
October 29, 2009 - During the current economic downturn, the Army must show both Congress and the American taxpayer that it is getting value for every dollar it receives, said the Army's outgoing G-8.
October 28, 2009 - President Barack Obama signed the fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act during a ceremony at the White House Oct. 28.
October 27, 2009 - Within a week of arriving here, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Gary Mishoe is preparing his motor pool for his unit’s takeover of counterinsurgency operations in the province.
October 27, 2009 - Psychological war wounds are nothing new to U.S. servicemembers, but the support of the nation to care for their injuries, until recent years, was somewhat uncharted territory.
October 27, 2009 - Two Medal of Honor recipients visited wounded warriors and Airmen here Oct. 23 as part of an Armed Forces Entertainment tour.
October 27, 2009 - Two million troops could be sent to Afghanistan and not make a difference unless the government there reforms, a globally recognized authority on counter-insurgency told a standing-room-only Pentagon audience last week.
October 26, 2009 - Defense and Veterans Affairs Department health care professionals began a three-day workshop here today to harness initiatives to improve psychological health care for servicemembers and veterans.
October 26, 2009 - Air Force officials from the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing here became the first wing under U.S. Air Force Central to move to a greener vehicle fleet Oct. 26.
October 26, 2009 - The U.S. Air Forces Central command chief has a good perspective on the lives of the Airmen serving in support of operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom after more than 21 months on the job.
October 26, 2009 - The first mine-resistant, ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles designated for southern Afghanistan arrived here, Oct. 22 by air transport.
October 23, 2009 - As South Korea’s military transitions to full operational control, it’s important to remember the past 60 years of U.S. commitment to the country and to not waver in that support, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
October 23, 2009 - Four ships and more than 5,000 Sailors of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 7 returned to their homeport of San Diego Oct. 21 after a five-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility (AOR).
October 23, 2009 - President Barack Obama signed new legislation today that creates predictable funding for veterans' health care.
October 22, 2009 - More than 30 two-man teams from around the globe put that battle cry to the test - minus any lethality in this instance - on Fort Benning's ranges during the ninth annual U.S. Army International Sniper Competition, which began Oct. 15 and ended Thursday.
October 21, 2009 - In a room of 20 military spouses, about 15 raised their hands as Chaplain (Capt.) Josh Metz asked, "Who's gone through a deployment before?"
October 21, 2009 - Gen. George W. Casey Jr. got an aerial peek at the massive expansion effort under way for the Maneuver Center of Excellence and observed urban combat training on Sand Hill.
October 21, 2009 - Getting the Army's personnel aspects right is the most important job for its leaders, Army Secretary John M. McHugh said today.
October 19, 2009 - After walking more than 800 miles through five states, 12 special tactics airmen arrived here Oct. 16, officially completing a memorial march for their fallen comrades.
October 19, 2009 - Military commanders of the future should be proficient at managing high-tech communications networks and also should know how to wage conventional, irregular and hybrid warfare, a senior U.S. Navy officer said here today.
October 16, 2009 - An Electronic Systems Center team from here worked in the past few weeks to bring to life a new, state-of-the-art combined air and space operations center in Southwest Asia for joint and coalition combat forces.
October 16, 2009 - The Iraq Civil Aviation Authority assumed full control of daily air traffic operations at the Baghdad International Airport air traffic control tower Oct. 1.
October 15, 2009 - Veterans Affairs Department officials continue their efforts to provide the best support possible to the nation's military veterans, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki told a House committee here Oct. 14.
October 14, 2009 - U.S. troops and reconstruction team members in Iraq’s Basra province completed what some say was a small task with a huge impact on improving the lives of some Iraqi families with disabled children.
October 14, 2009 - The Veterans Affairs Department continues its efforts to provide the best support possible to the nation’s military veterans, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki told a House committee here today.
October 13, 2009 - Interagency operations are going to increase as the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan transition away from combat and into support and stability ventures. How to best coordinate those operations is at the forefront of many high-level discussions.
October 13, 2009 - Servicemembers who participated in the first state-side training program for joint counter-IED teams have just arrived in Afghanistan for a year-long assignment.
October 12, 2009 - The Center for Disease Control website states that receiving the yearly flu vaccine reduces your chances of being infected with the influenza virus by 70% to 90% in healthy adults.
October 09, 2009 - Before an Iraqi air force lieutenant can begin pilot training at Kirkuk Air Base, he must first prove he have achieved one of their air force's core values: learning to comprehend and speak English.
October 07, 2009 - Future U.S. military weapons are going to have to be relevant, adaptable and affordable, the nation’s second highest-ranking military officer told defense contractors here today.
October 06, 2009 - Maj. Anthony Meador is near the end of his third tour in Iraq as an Army aviator.
October 06, 2009 - In 2005, David Dominguez of San Diego noticed casualty reports in Iraq and Afghanistan were barely making news. After several years of war, the American public had settled back into its routine.
October 06, 2009 - The Army must structure itself to face a future of persistent conflict as it takes on a long-term ideological struggle against terrorism and militant extremists, the service’s top officer said today.
October 05, 2009 - Withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan before accomplishing the mission there would greatly embolden Islamic radicals worldwide, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
October 05, 2009 - Soon after donning his Air Force second lieutenant uniform in 1967, Robert M. Gates learned an important lesson about how the U.S. military functions.
October 02, 2009 - The Navy is merging its information technology, intelligence and communications operations into one organization to better address Information Age challenges, including threats to computer networks, the Navy's top officer said here yesterday.
October 01, 2009 - President Barack Obama is getting the ground-level perspective on Afghanistan, and soon will address the strategy and resources needed in the country, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said here today.
October 01, 2009 - Sometime around Thanksgiving some troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will receive boxes filled with gifts from a women’s group in Alexandria, Va.
October 01, 2009 - The deployments of about 1,600 U.S. troops in Iraq could be extended in the weeks following the national election slated to occur in January, Pentagon officials said today.
September 30, 2009 - For the past five years, Vivianne Wersel has been fighting to improve benefits for the widows and families of fallen servicemembers.
September 28, 2009 - At many bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, Air Mobility Command airlifters, such as the C-17 Globemaster III, are landing on dirt runways bringing much-needed cargo to forward-deployed Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and coalition partners.
September 28, 2009 - The new 10th Mountain Division commander told his soldiers preparing to deploy that they’ll play a critical role in “one of the most challenging and dynamic deployments” to Iraq.
September 26, 2009 - The overriding U.S. goal in Afghanistan is to dismantle the al Qaeda network , President Barack Obama said yesterday in Pittsburgh.
September 26, 2009 - American servicemembers who’ve perished in the nation’s wars “died for the ones they loved,” the U.S. military’s top officer said today at a special ceremony held on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
September 25, 2009 - Ruth Stonesifer dreamed of a quiet life in Kintnersville, Penn., passing her days quilting for her three grandchildren.
September 25, 2009 - Army Sgt. Maj. Virginia Stickler enjoys serving up drinks and snacks, as well as a bit of advice, to her fellow soldiers here at a coffee shop that speaks volumes about her deployment.
September 25, 2009 - An Air National Guard program designed to cut through bureaucracy has led to safety solutions for problems as vast and varied as avian flu, pilot fatigue and reducing the carbon footprint.
September 24, 2009 - The wife of Vice President Joe Biden met with New York National Guard personnel and their families in mid-September in Latham, N.Y.
September 24, 2009 - The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been learning experiences, forcing military leadership to reassess and modify tactics to effectively counter an irregular foe.
September 23, 2009 - A deliberative approach is best for everyone as President Barack Obama and his national security team grapple with the way forward in Afghanistan, the Pentagon spokesman said today.
September 23, 2009 - President Barack Obama today asked for global cooperation to solve pressing world problems like nuclear proliferation, terrorism and extremism, climate change and poverty during his speech before the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.
September 23, 2009 - The U.S. military needs more people trained in specialties critical to the fight against global extremism, the chief of U.S. Central Command said here today.
September 23, 2009 - Defense Department officials plan to forward a social media policy to the department leadership within the next two weeks that will balance the pros and cons of social networking sites
September 22, 2009 - Thomas Barbieri loves it when people ask him about the World War II replica motorcycle he built, because it gives him a chance to talk about his son, T.J.
September 22, 2009 - Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, met here yesterday with New York National Guard personnel and their families following an appearance in the state with President Barack Obama.
September 22, 2009 - Army Sgt. 1st Class Jarrett Jongema grew up watching war movies, and later on, documentaries about military life and war, but it wasn’t until he was injured by a suicide car bomber that he gained a deeper and more personal understanding.
September 21, 2009 - John McHugh was sworn in as the 21st secretary of the Army today following his nomination by President Barack Obama and confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
September 19, 2009 - The secretaries of Defense and the Air Force joined the Air Force chief of staff, chief master sergeant of the Air Force, and distinguished guests from all services at a Pentagon dedication ceremony for the Airman's Hall.
September 19, 2009 - Nearly 10,000 runners lined up at the starting line for the 2009 Air Force Marathon Sept. 19 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
September 18, 2009 - A neurologist at the Wilford Hall Medical Center here is studying a medication that may significantly reduce chronic headaches and migraines without all the usual side effects from oral medications.
September 18, 2009 - The soldiers of the 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade’s quick-reaction force are responsible for the safety of the troops and civilians operating here.
September 18, 2009 - The military is fortunate the nation offers its unbridled support and backing to its military employees, the deputy defense secretary said last night.
September 18, 2009 - A group of senior U.S. officials today paid homage to servicemembers who have been prisoners of war or are listed as missing in action during an observance ceremony on the Pentagon’s River Terrace parade field.
September 17, 2009 - Five of the original cadre members of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School's initial C-130 Hercules Weapons Instructor Course came together Sept. 11 to attend the retirement of a fellow 29th Weapons Squadron comrade here.
September 16, 2009 - The United States is just beginning to deal with the long-term implications of caring for servicemembers and their families whose lives have been changed by the wounds of war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today.
September 16, 2009 - Airmen around the world are making a life-and-death difference for U.S. military ground forces, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
September 16, 2009 - Donna Engeman always had faith in her military community and its support. But in May 2006, the military support system she knew and loved temporarily faded away when she lost her husband to a roadside bomb in Iraq.
September 16, 2009 - Iraq is well on its way to stability and self-reliance, Vice President Joe Biden said in Baghdad today.
September 15, 2009 - After weeks of processing her paperwork and ensuring that proper vaccinations had been given, the United States Army has allowed a native of Iraq to join the ranks.
September 15, 2009 - The National Call for Photos, a campaign to gather images of the more than 58,000 men and women whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will be launched Sept. 17 at a Newseum event here hosted by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
September 14, 2009 - Today's Airmen are becoming increasingly familiar with words like "joint" and "total force" regardless of where they are assigned or deployed.
September 14, 2009 - An endeavor that began about a month ago comes to fruition today with the airing of the first virtual town hall meeting in which the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff answers questions posed online by servicemembers and the public.
September 11, 2009 - The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va., unveiled the latest revisions to its Global War on Terror exhibit today, commemorating the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
September 11, 2009 - Two seemingly different U.S. Army organizations gathered robotics experts, technologists, academecs, soldiers and companies from across the country in search of solutions to help save soldiers’ lives.
September 11, 2009 - New initiatives underway within the Air Force to consolidate commands, modernize systems and strengthen personnel emphasize nuclear security.
September 11, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates welcomed a group of 50 civilian community leaders, scholars and professionals to the Pentagon here today as they begin a seven-day tour of America’s armed forces in Central and South America.
September 10, 2009 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff lauded 11 volunteer-based organizations today for their ingenuity and innovative efforts to improve the lives of military members and their communities.
September 10, 2009 - Marine Sgt. Tikonblah Dargbeh is like the tens of thousands of other troops who have served in Iraq as a U.S. military member, save for one major distinction: until today, Dargbeh was not American.
September 09, 2009 - Jeremy LeGrand, an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran who returned home from combat safely only to suffer a brain injury in an off-duty car accident is learning this week that some of the best therapy is delivered on the golf course and at the bowling alley.
September 09, 2009 - Potential Marines usually sit with a recruiter and pick out the reasons they want to join from a stack of colorful cards featuring the words “travel,” “education” and “discipline,” among others.
September 08, 2009 - Members of the 379th Expeditionary Air Evacuation Squadron run weekly missions to both Iraq and Afghanistan to either pick up patients or return servicemembers who have sufficiently recovered back to a forward location.
September 08, 2009 - Airmen remain a vital part of the joint mission, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley observed during his recent visit to installations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
September 08, 2009 - As President Barack Obama was in nearby Arlington giving his pep talk today to America’s schoolchildren, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here in a receiving mode to hear firsthand about challenges military children face in the education system.
September 06, 2009 - As more U.S. troops are being sent to the fight in Afghanistan, the possibility of more troops being injured rises.
September 04, 2009 - Air Force Maj. Dan Rooney knows that just a dollar or more added to your golf greens fees this Labor Day weekend can provide millions of dollars to help servicemembers and their families.
September 03, 2009 - Just 15 months ago, when Army Pfc. Daniel Bateson was hanging drywall with his family's home improvement business, the Connecticut native never dreamed he would visit Africa.
September 03, 2009 - Air Force medical evacuation airmen had the benefit of flying with a leading U.S. trauma surgeon during a recent mission to Iraq as part of a program to link military and civilian medical professionals.
September 02, 2009 - A leading U.S. trauma surgeon flew on an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during an aeromedical evacuation mission in Iraq Aug. 19 and 20 to help shape future training for military medical teams worldwide, according to Air Mobility Command officials.
September 02, 2009 - Army Capt. Emily Stehr, a physical therapist with the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, is in the business of healing. But five months after returning from Iraq, she was struggling with her own internal wounds of war that had not healed.
September 02, 2009 - Two days ago, I and six other reporters accompanied Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to Texas to see two high-tech operations under way.
September 01, 2009 - In the Army’s celebratory Year of the Noncommissioned Officer, Dremiel Byers stands out. Byer will represent the Army on Team USA at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships.
August 31, 2009 - The commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan has completed his assessment of the situation there and has forwarded it to NATO and U.S. leaders, Defense Department officials said today.
August 31, 2009 - Researchers at the Naval Medical Research Center are testing a malaria vaccine officials hope will protect both troops and civilians in tropical and subtropical regions afflicted by the disease.
August 31, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates gave a pep talk today to employees outfitting the MC-12 Liberty aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, telling them their work is saving lives on the battlefield.
August 26, 2009 - Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley met with deployed servicemembers Aug. 26 at an air base in Southwest Asia and visited base facilities there during a brief stop on his tour of the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
August 26, 2009 - While some people join the Army to find adventure for the first time, a deployed soldier here said she joined to add to the adventures she’s already had.
August 26, 2009 - U.S. soldiers taught Iraqi nursing students how to handle the medical side of a mass-casualty situation Aug. 18.
August 26, 2009 - The commander of U.S. Central Command said tough fighting lies ahead in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and other extremists have expanded their strength and influence, but he cautioned that success there demands more than battlefield victories.
August 26, 2009 - Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery near his brothers, Defense Department officials said here today.
August 25, 2009 - The guided-missile frigate USS Thach has helped to protect Iraq's critical infrastructure since arriving on station in mid-July.
August 25, 2009 - Today’s wars need a new type of thinking and new strategies, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
August 25, 2009 - After a bomb blew off much of his left forearm in Iraq in 2003, nurses came to his room daily to wash out his wounds. He described the treatment as two minutes of torture.
August 24, 2009 - Iraqi forces, aided by U.S. advisors, detained eight suspected terrorists Aug. 20 and 21 in operations in Iraq, military officials reported.
August 21, 2009 - An Army National Guard colonel who led a brigade in Iraq and a Vietnam veteran who retired from the Guard as a brigadier general recently helped New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine launch an oral history project to preserve the Garden State’s military legacy.
August 21, 2009 - Retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey -- a Vietnam veteran, film actor and TV host -- shared observations about modern military technology and his visits with American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq during a “DoDLive” bloggers roundtable today.
August 20, 2009 - President Barack Obama pledged today to keep ramping up pressure on insurgents in Afghanistan, citing developments aimed at “squeezing them from both sides” to ultimately “flush them out.”
August 20, 2009 - Many programs help military members’ families during a deployment, but what about their four-legged friends?
August 20, 2009 - Mobilizing Soldiers hoping to stay in touch with their loved ones back home now have a better way to do so here with the recent inclusion of a new Internet service provider.
August 19, 2009 - The command of Pacific Air Forces was passed from Gen. Howie Chandler to Gen. Gary North during a ceremony here Aug. 19 on Freedom Tower Mall.
August 19, 2009 - Fifty-one Airmen from Luke Air Force Base met President Barack Obama at the 110th Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention Aug. 17 in Phoenix.
August 19, 2009 - In 2003 Catherine Roberts, a midwife by profession and quilter for 25 years from Seaford, Del., wanted to give a wounded Soldier a quilt to bring him comfort during his recovery.
August 18, 2009 - The U.S. Army tradition of recognizing newly promoted noncommissioned officers to the NCO corps is through an NCO induction ceremony, a time-honored tradition for the U.S. Army, which has been shared with the new Iraqi Army.
August 18, 2009 - No training is more crucial to the U.S. military than education in critical foreign languages and cultures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said recently.
August 18, 2009 - A well-rounded knowledge of how assets work for a unit can become a force multiplier.
August 17, 2009 - Defense officials have chosen Perpetual Technologies Inc. to receive the department's employer-support award for providing exceptional financial and emotional support to its employees who deploy as National Guard or Reserve members.
August 14, 2009 - Google is tinkering with a new service that could transform the way troops on the frontlines communicate with their families on the homefront.
August 13, 2009 - U.S. soldiers who attended a recent graduation of Iraqi police say they are pleased with their improvements and that training them has been mutually beneficial.
August 12, 2009 - Army Command Sgt. Maj. Rob Lawrence’s position as the Colorado National Guard’s top enlisted soldier is underscored by nearly 25 years of steadfast support from his civilian employer.
August 12, 2009 - Defense Department officials are developing a new training program that will teach military members and civilians how to be culturally competent and aware when interacting with people from different lands, a senior official told reporters here today.
August 12, 2009 - Senior defense officials are getting a glimpse this week of the latest in unmanned systems technologies, which many concede is the way of the future for the U.S. military.
August 11, 2009 - One of the soldiers in the opening scene of “GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” wasn't able to see the film's debut last week.
August 11, 2009 - No training is more crucial to the U.S. military than education in critical foreign languages and cultures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday.
August 10, 2009 - President Barack Obama strode into the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Aug. 4, uttering apologies for being late as he approached the four military journalists to shake their hands and thank them for coming to talk about veterans’ issues.
August 07, 2009 - The commander of one of the largest and most diverse wings in the Air Force highlighted the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing’s contributions to operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom during a “DoDLive” bloggers roundtable Aug. 5.
August 06, 2009 - U.S. soldiers with the 172nd Infantry Brigade medical team and 10th and 115th Combat Support Hospitals instructed Iraqi nurses during a four-day medical symposium at Babil Maternity Hospital in Iraq’s Babil province.
August 06, 2009 - The Army teaches soldiers to leave a place better than they found it. One soldier has applied this adage to the Multinational Division Baghdad area of operations by thinking “green.”
August 06, 2009 - The challenges facing the world today are the most daunting and complex in his lifetime, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a student leadership group.
August 06, 2009 - As the military prepares to step up its already robust environmental health monitoring program to identify possible health consequences of “burn pit” smoke exposures in the combat theater, President Barack Obama has pledged to ensure troops are protected.
August 05, 2009 - Women have actively supported the U.S. military since the Revolutionary War. By providing medical care to wounded soldiers and support to their militia men, women introduced themselves as an asset to protecting the nation.
August 05, 2009 - Citing the direct correlation between military deployments and post-traumatic stress disorder, President Barack Obama said he’s hopeful that increasing the size of the force will help to reduce incidents of stress.
August 05, 2009 - Air Force officials here Aug. 5 designated U.S. Air Forces Central Command as its new dedicated, forward-based Air Force component supporting the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
August 05, 2009 - Can an Airman who never flew a combat sortie give expert advice to an Army commander on the use of airpower in battle?
August 03, 2009 - Over the past month, soldiers of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, have been learning new skills and taking on new challenges as they adapt to a different mission in Iraq.
August 03, 2009 - Army Sgt. 1st Class Debra Tanacea was eager to begin her first deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
August 03, 2009 - Remains found last month in Iraq’s Anbar province are those of Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, who was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet on Jan. 17, 1991.
August 03, 2009 - President Barack Obama today saluted the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill during a ceremony at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
July 31, 2009 - The secret to the U.S. Marine Corps’ success is a blending of bedrock principles with innovation, the commander of U.S. Central Command said here last night.
July 30, 2009 - Being a high school teacher, a professional soccer player and a firefighter in one’s local town all are great accomplishments. But one woman who has been all three still desired to pursue something more.
July 30, 2009 - U.S. Rep. John McHugh’s inspiration to serve as secretary of the Army lies in his desire to repay the devotion to duty exuded by today’s military members despite the many challenges he’ll face.
July 30, 2009 - The commander of Multinational Corps Iraq said an unanticipated result of the U.S.-Iraq security agreement is that relationships between Iraqi and U.S. commanders have improved.
July 29, 2009 - About a thousand people lined Harmon Drive from the 12th Flying Training Wing headquarters to the main gate here the morning of July 26 to honor fallen Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brandon Lara as a motorcade bringing his body home passed.
July 28, 2009 - Air operations here cater to a wide range of travel needs, providing air travel for servicemembers and civilians for mission requirements and leave.
July 28, 2009 - The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review now under development envisions a U.S. military with the wherewithal to confront current threats such as al-Qaida as well as having the capacity to meet future security challenges.
July 27, 2009 - U.S. Air Force Academy officials here integrated unmanned aircraft systems into the school's curriculum.
July 27, 2009 - The United States and Jordan enjoy a strategic partnership aimed at promoting peace in the greater Middle East, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
July 25, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates begins a trip to the Middle East tomorrow with stops in Israel and Jordan.
July 24, 2009 - Members of the 693rd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group will observe and learn how the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System enterprise operates worldwide during Sentinel Focus 2009 to be held Aug. 2 to 6.
July 24, 2009 - President Barack Obama will posthumously award Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in Afghanistan, White House officials announced today.
July 22, 2009 - A wounded Airman and his wife plan to use the lessons they've learned about marriage and friendship through military service and adversity to help servicemembers who might be struggling after deployment or injury.
July 22, 2009 - President Barack Obama praised a Senate vote that struck down $1.75 billion in additional funding in the fiscal 2010 defense budget for more F-22 Raptor fighter jets July 21 here.
July 22, 2009 - Taking advantage of emerging technologies to collect and analyze intelligence, then testing out better ways to get it out to warfighters who need it is the focus of a demonstration project under way in the California high desert and at sites in the United
July 21, 2009 - To travel around the world in a diplomatic capacity to any of 148 posts and 133 countries, ensuring the safeguard of classified material is an opportunity Marines have but are not exploring.
July 21, 2009 - Flying the president from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base is a routine mission for Marine Helicopter Squadron One.
July 20, 2009 - More than half of U.S. servicemembers seriously injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center here suffer from traumatic brain injury.
July 20, 2009 - An instructor shouts commands in Arabic. Recruits snap into fighting stances. The instructor tests the recruits, shaking them and kicking their legs. One recruit makes a mistake, and the instructor drops him for push-ups.
July 20, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today announced plans to add up to 22,000 soldiers to the U.S. Army’s ranks.
July 17, 2009 - Defense leaders bestowed honors on Army Secretary Pete Geren at his farewell ceremony and Geren turned the event into a paean of praise for soldiers and their families.
July 16, 2009 - Patience and time are keys to success in Afghanistan, the commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan told reporters here yesterday.
July 16, 2009 - Army officials have released the results of a study aimed at determining possible causes for a cluster of violent crimes that took place between 2005 and 2008 at Fort Carson, Colo.
July 16, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates began his town hall meeting here today by acknowledging the sacrifices of the members of the 10th Mountain Division.
July 15, 2009 - The 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year are selected based on superior leadership, job performance, significant self-improvement/ personal achievements and base/community involvement.
July 14, 2009 - Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team have made a positive impact on security and quality of life in Iraq’s Basra province, their commander said during a briefing from Iraq today.
July 14, 2009 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff offered some guidance and his gratitude to about 300 military members during an all-hands call here today.
July 14, 2009 - Three division headquarters and eight brigade combat teams have been scheduled to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in the next rotation beginning this fall.
July 13, 2009 - The landscape of this base is changing rapidly. Some buildings already have been built to improve the operational capability of Multinational Division South, with others planned for the near future.
July 13, 2009 - Despite the historical differences that challenge progress in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and Kirkuk province, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he’s struck by the governance and security milestones recently achieved here.
July 10, 2009 - The military has come a long way from the time when it packaged cigarettes in with rations, but more must be done, according to an Institute of Medicine report.
July 10, 2009 - Options exist to help NATO members better meet their obligations within the alliance, the former NATO commander who left the post less than two weeks ago said here yesterday.
July 10, 2009 - The very day he assumed his post as NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe last week, Navy Adm. James Stavridis reached out in a way none of the previous 15 NATO commanders since Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had: he posted a blog.
July 10, 2009 - The Army National Guard is changing recruiting policies to lower its end strength by the end of the fiscal year, Guard officials said today.
July 09, 2009 - From the use of newspapers and pamphlets to stoke the American Revolution to embedded journalists in the War in Iraq, the media has played a major role in every American conflict.
July 09, 2009 - The military is sending thousands of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to Afghanistan, even while a new version is being built, to protect troops against their biggest threat: improvised explosive devices.
July 08, 2009 - Having the technology and capabilities to communicate over radios, phones and internet would not be possible without the help of Marines from 8th Communications Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group (Forward).
July 08, 2009 - After serving in Iraq for approximately three months, a detachment of Marines from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 will soon join the remainder of their squadron serving in Afghanistan.
July 08, 2009 - Defense Department schools are taking on the tough topic of suicide to prevent what is a leading cause of death among teens.
July 08, 2009 - While devoting much of his National Press Club address today to efforts under way in Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was quizzed on a broad range of other defense issues.
July 08, 2009 - To Army Secretary Pete Geren, the Army is not some amorphous entity that the country calls on in time of crisis. To him, the Army is people – soldiers and families – serving something larger than themselves.
July 07, 2009 - Army Sgt. 1st Class JennyAnne Bright believes noncommissioned officers have to practice what they preach.
July 07, 2009 - The best way to show deployed troops you care, says Cody Anderson, is to send them prepaid international phone cards so they can call home to their friends and loved ones.
July 06, 2009 - Vice President Joe Biden and Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, presided over a July 4 naturalization ceremony in which 237 servicemembers deployed to Iraq became American citizens.
July 06, 2009 - When shouting isn’t enough to stop someone who poses a threat, nonlethal weapons provide an alternative to lethal force.
July 05, 2009 - As Americans celebrated Independence Day in homes throughout the nation, President Barack Obama invited about 1,200 military families to his home for a July Fourth bash yesterday to personally thank them for their service and sacrifice.
July 05, 2009 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff addressed the situation in Iraq, relations with North Korea, China and Russia and possible changes to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy during an appearance on a television news show today.
July 03, 2009 - During a visit to the Pentagon June 26, business executives heard firsthand from the commandant concerns over the growing “regional instability” in Korea.
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July 03, 2009 - When Gunnery Sgt. Amber Beegle received orders to deploy to Iraq, she had no idea she would be working just a few miles away from her younger brother, Sgt. James Ihle, an aviation ordnance system technician with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 26.
July 03, 2009 - Independence Day celebrates the birthday of the United States of America and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, by our Founding Fathers.
July 02, 2009 - A giant, unmanned airship capable of hovering at about 70,000 feet promises to give future warfighters an unprecedented eye on the battlefield.
July 02, 2009 - Golfing great Tiger Woods spent the week leading up to the nation’s birthday honoring those men and women serving in the military during the Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am golf tournament at the Congressional Country Club here.
July 02, 2009 - U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Timothy Maxwell stood stoicly silent as the crowd at his retirement ceremony rose to their feet and applauded. For those who knew of his incredible journey, they can’t help but let their emotions flow.
July 01, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited Landstuhl Regional Medical Center here yesterday, meeting with wounded warriors and the staff that treats them and touring a new USO facility that’s providing them a better quality of life as they heal.
June 30, 2009 - A Maryland-based troop-support group is planning a “National Day of Awakening” to highlight the mental health needs of military families and the services available to them.
June 30, 2009 - Under the Security Agreement signed between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad, Iraq, officials in November 2008, U.S. servicemembers are to withdraw from Iraqi cities, villages and localities by June 30.
June 30, 2009 - A former commanding general of the Washington, D.C., National Guard who was killed June 22 in a subway accident along with his wife was remembered in a June 29 ceremony celebrating his life and accomplishments.
June 29, 2009 - Six wounded soldiers, all amputees, returned here last week hoping to close the door on the combat that changed them forever.
June 28, 2009 - Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations June 27, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
June 28, 2009 - The U.S. military will have no issues complying with the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, which requires all U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, the commander of Multinational Force Iraq said today.
June 27, 2009 - Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations June 26, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
June 26, 2009 - Far away from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, a relatively small group of soldiers subject themselves regularly to searing heat, freezing cold, extreme altitudes and exhausting exercise.
June 26, 2009 - The boxes arrive daily from the United States, 15 to 20 each day, along with $8,000 to $12,000 in cash every week from Americans and U.S. nonprofit groups.
June 25, 2009 - Nestled in the shadows of the Boston skyline, scientists and soldiers in a one-of-a-kind Army laboratory work quietly behind the scenes to improve the health and performance of today’s troops.
June 25, 2009 - When Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jason Eckman was promoted to gunnery sergeant on May 2, he became one of the few Marines to know the rare honor of being meritoriously promoted for combat service.
June 25, 2009 - As the nation fights two protracted wars and North Korea rattles off war-like rhetoric, officials working on the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review are striving to strike a balance between the needs of the current fight and preparing for future threats.
June 24, 2009 - When four of the seven-member Team Denali, which included four wounded veterans, reached the top of Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park, what should have been celebratory whoops and hollers was instead a quiet, tempered satisfaction.
June 24, 2009 - Sitting in the desert, a thousand miles from home, an infantryman with 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, thinks about his lifetime and all the songs he wrote.
June 24, 2009 - Predicting an uptick in violence in Iraq as U.S. combat troops leave the cities by June 30, Pentagon Press Secretary said today that deployed troops have geared up for the heightened threat as they comply with the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement.
June 24, 2009 - Each case is as unique as the name inscribed on the dog tags. Soldiers are taking their own lives in record numbers, and Army senior leaders are struggling to understand why.
June 23, 2009 - Soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team say they are seeing big improvements in the Iraqis’ ability to secure their country’s borders.
June 23, 2009 - It can be difficult to comprehend the sacrifice a spouse makes when their loved one falls in battle, but for the military widows behind the American Widow Project it is an experience they live each day.
June 23, 2009 - How far would you go to save the life of someone you’ve never even met?
June 23, 2009 - The 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) commanding general’s personnel security detail is a rich melting pot of experienced, seasoned Marines who perform a particularly specialized mission.
June 22, 2009 - Army Sgt. Laurence Cameron was given the radio call sign “Dawg Medic” by other soldiers during this deployment, but it wasn’t until a recent mission that the Rock Hill, S.C., native actually lived up to the nickname.
June 22, 2009 - Iraqi troops in northeastern Baghdad have a new weapon in their arsenal, thanks to U.S. soldiers here.
June 22, 2009 - Defense Department officials are working aggressively to reduce the impact of multiple deployments on the children of military families.
June 20, 2009 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to a nontraditional audience that believes in some very traditional American values here today.
June 19, 2009 - A foundation formed by the family of a fallen Marine whose story was told in the HBO movie “Taking Chance” has donated $10,000 to a group that works to help wounded veterans and their families.
June 19, 2009 - Navy Secretary Raymond E. Mabus Jr. assumed office yesterday, pledging that commitment to sailors, Marines and their families will be the cornerstone of his service.
June 19, 2009 - With heavy demand on special operations capabilities and limitations on how quickly these forces can grow, it’s critical that the services develop more capabilities to support special operators.
June 18, 2009 - For five brothers from a small town in Kentucky, serving in the military is a family tradition.
June 17, 2009 - Marines have always found a way to accomplish the mission at hand and still meet the Marines abMarine Corps’ high standards, regardless of the resources available to them at any given time.
June 17, 2009 - As it gears up for its 7th Annual Children’s Freedom Art Contest, a North Carolina-based troop-support group is looking for patriotic drawings or paintings that signify the unyielding spirit of America after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
June 17, 2009 - Everything is on track for the withdrawal of American troops from the cities of Iraq, Iraqi and coalition officials said this week.
June 17, 2009 - With the economic downturn causing a spike in consumer scams, the Federal Trade Commission is encouraging servicemembers and their families to report their complaints to an online site so it can better target its investigations.
June 15, 2009 - The program, called Project Liberty, involves Airmen operating the MC-12W aircraft out of Joint Base Balad, Iraq, and more Airmen serving as ground-based crew.
June 15, 2009 - When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates tapped Price Floyd to run the Defense Department’s public affairs operation, he gave him two basic marching orders: improve the way the department communicates.
June 15, 2009 - Just a short bus trip from work and in a well-secured area here, soldiers of 1st Armored Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team can be seen on any given day shopping in the Iraqi-based industrial zone.
June 13, 2009 - United States Marines pride themselves on being America’s force-in-readiness. At any given time, Marines are prepared to deploy anywhere in the world to defend America and respond to crises.
June 13, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates implored America’s youth to weigh the virtues of a career devoted to serving the country, saying “no life is complete without service to others.”
June 11, 2009 - Flanked by rows of professors cloaked in traditional academic regalia, the nation’s top military officer offered one final, brief lecture to a group of graduating senior military officers at the National Defense University here today.
June 10, 2009 - The nation’s top military officer told Congress yesterday the fiscal 2010 defense budget request puts money where it’s needed: to recruit and retain the quality troops and their families who form the foundation of the all-volunteer force.
June 10, 2009 - Army Col. (Dr.) Kenneth Lee who holds the Wisconsin Guard’s top medical post as the state surgeon, had to determine the deployability of about 600 members of the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team who had been classified on their medical records as “ambers
June 09, 2009 - In the pre-dawn darkness that covered the English Channel on June 6, 1944, more than 100,000 men prepared to board small landing craft and beaching vessels.
June 09, 2009 - United States Marines pride themselves on being America’s force-in-readiness. At any given time, Marines are prepared to deploy anywhere in the world to defend America and respond to crises.
June 08, 2009 - Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq is working toward its mission to assist the Iraqi Interior Ministry in generating a professional and credible police force, one of the command’s deputy commanders said today.
June 08, 2009 - As Staff Sgt. Phillip Livingston neared the end of his senior year in high school in 1998, he heard his nation’s call to service, and upon graduation enlisted in the Marine Corps.
June 05, 2009 - A soldier who was wounded in Iraq is looking for closure for his injuries and a new starting point for his life this week as part of a team attempting to scale North America’s highest peak.
June 05, 2009 - The Baltimore Military Entrance Processing Station at Fort Meade, Md., will dedicate its ceremony room tomorrow to Marine Corps Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell.
June 05, 2009 - This year, as it’s been for the last five, no high school senior graduating from a Department of Defense Education Activity school in Europe will look around wishing a parent could be there as the sound of “Pomp and Circumstance” fills the air.
June 04, 2009 - Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit came together with their counterparts from Marine Wing Support Squadron 172 and the Camp Butler Special Reaction Team to refresh their urban combat skills during a field exercise in Combat Town May 18-22.
June 04, 2009 - President Barack Obama reached out to the Muslim world today, urging a new beginning that rises above historical tensions and is built on commonly held principles that reject violence and promote cooperation and stability.
June 04, 2009 - It’s 115 degrees Fahrenheit, and we’re in the shade of an aircraft silhouette. The wind is blowing steadily at about 25 knots. It’s like standing in front of a giant hair dryer.
June 04, 2009 - The overseas basing choices the United States makes for its military forces are a factor in deterring potential enemies, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
June 03, 2009 - Irony, our English teachers told us, often is confused with odd coincidence. Just ask Army Pfc. Wenderson Jangada of the 82nd Airborne Division.
June 03, 2009 - The loss of his right arm while serving in Iraq made something as simple as eating a challenge for retired Marine Capt. Jonathan F. Kuniholm.
June 02, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stopped here briefly yesterday on the final leg of a week-long trip to the Asia-Pacific region.
June 02, 2009 - Summiting the highest peak in North America, will make Marc Hoffmeister’s other challenges, like earning his commission as an Army officer by graduating from West Point, seem like a mole hill, by comparison.
June 01, 2009 - American combat troops are on pace to leave Iraqi cities by the June 30 deadline stipulated by the U.S.-Iraq security agreement, U.S. officials in Baghdad said yesterday.
May 29, 2009 - President Barack Obama's decisions to grow the military, broaden the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and focus on 21st century threats are making America "increasingly safer," the president's national security advisor said May 27.
May 29, 2009 - When Army Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz assumed his post as chief of the Army Reserve three years ago, he brought a mindset of focusing on the bottom line, a perspective he forged over 28 years in the private sector.
May 29, 2009 - As the Army continues to battle radical extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan, global trends and conditions portend the likelihood that “persistent conflict” will occur around the world for some years to come.
May 28, 2009 - Fighting a war can be stressful, no matter what job you do in the military. Staff members at combat stress control centers throughout Iraq work to fight stress — or at least to teach people how to manage it.
May 28, 2009 - Air Force Airman 1st Class Alberto Lopez knew the guy was hiding something.
May 28, 2009 - President Barack Obama’s decisions to grow the military, broaden the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and focus on 21st century threats are making America “increasingly safer,” the president’s national security advisor said yesterday.
May 27, 2009 - Vice President Joe Biden today called upon the newest graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy to shape a new history for the country as they said goodbye to academia and welcomed their new challenges as second lieutenants in an ever-changing U.S. military
May 27, 2009 - The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a new Web site to strengthen the connection between college and university mental health professionals and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts studying on their campuses.
May 26, 2009 - The 586th Air Expeditionary Group is one of three Air Force groups organized to complete joint expeditionary taskings and is contributing significantly to operations in Iraq and Kuwait, the group’s commander said.
May 26, 2009 - ‘Fear-mongering’ is clouding the national debate about closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.
May 25, 2009 - The president and the nation’s top military officer today denounced North Korea's claim that it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test, much larger than previous such tests, to “bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense."
May 25, 2009 - As the nation prepares to enjoy its Memorial Day holiday, the military’s top officer asked that U.S. troops and families be remembered for their sacrifices.
May 25, 2009 - Memorial Day is a time for Americans to “honor all those who have sacrificed and still sacrifice today for our freedom.
May 25, 2009 - President Barack Obama today hailed U.S. military members’ unselfish service and willingness to lay down their lives on behalf of their fellow citizens during the annual Memorial Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery.
May 24, 2009 - The detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed, the Pentagon’s senior military officer said here today.
May 23, 2009 - It wasn’t the enormity of the sections of ship being welded together at Bath Iron Works here that impressed the defense secretary yesterday, but rather those stitching the hulking pieces together and the crews that would man the finished ships.
May 22, 2009 - The Senate has confirmed Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Charles Bruce Green to become the Air Force's 20th surgeon general.
May 22, 2009 - Pageantry and tradition reined here today as 1,036 members of U.S. Naval Academy’s Class of 2009 raised their right hands and swore to protect and defend the United States and its Constitution.
May 21, 2009 - Sergeant Josh Hopper looks like a winner, but there was a battle he couldn’t win without help – that against post-traumatic stress disorder. Now, Hopper is fighting another battle: to get servicemembers with PTSD to reach out and get help, as he did.
May 21, 2009 - What started as a White House tribute to the Super Bowl XVIII champion Pittsburgh Steelers today turned the spotlight to wounded troops and their families.
May 21, 2009 - Vice President Joe Biden offered heartfelt thanks to the troops at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, noting that their service gives them a rare opportunity to be able to tell future generations what it was like when the Balkans became part of a free Europe.
May 20, 2009 - Air Force officials announced plans to retire legacy fighters to fund a smaller and more capable force and redistribute people for higher priority missions.
May 20, 2009 - Of all the people who gathered on a gray and rainy Monday morning to watch the 82nd Airborne Division kick off its annual All American Week celebration with a division cohesion run, no one faced more obstacles to be there than Army Sgt. John Hoxie.
May 19, 2009 - More than 1.3 million Americans have fought and died on behalf of our country during the past 233 years.
May 19, 2009 - On a battlefield they plan, request and direct air strikes against enemy targets in close proximity to friendly forces, namely the army units on the frontlines who may need close-air support in the blink of an eye.
May 18, 2009 - The three major tenets of the U.S. Pacific Command strategy -- partnership, readiness and presence -- are having a powerful impact in bringing together the joint, interagency and international capabilities required to promote regional stability.
May 18, 2009 - A father and son serving together in Multinational Division Baghdad on Camp Liberty, Iraq, epitomize their family’s tradition of service.
May 18, 2009 - The three major tenets of the U.S. Pacific Command strategy – partnership, readiness and presence – are having a powerful impact in bringing together the joint, interagency and international capabilities required to promote regional stability.
May 18, 2009 - Mike Corrado, the Marine recording artist whose 2005 hit song “On My Watch Tonight” was featured on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” and has become an anthem for servicemembers worldwide.
May 17, 2009 - Generals, congressmen and, in many cases, presidents of the United States have attended military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery here and given their condolences to children who have lost loved ones to war.
May 17, 2009 - The Afghan national army could lead operations in Afghanistan in two to four years, with the U.S. playing a support role, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during a May 8 interview, portions of which aired on CBS’ “60 Minutes” today.
May 15, 2009 - President Barack Obama signed and issued a proclamation yesterday designating tomorrow as Armed Forces Day.
May 15, 2009 - For the last five years, the California-based troop-support group, Their Angels, have met every first Saturday, monthly, to pack civilian care packages and write letters of support to send to deployed troops.
May 15, 2009 - The works screened at the GI Film Festival, the only American cinema expo dedicated to honoring U.S. troops, represent a wide-lens view of the military that goes beyond the narrative angles commonly pursued by Hollywood.
May 14, 2009 - This week’s tragedy at Camp Liberty in Iraq, in which a soldier undergoing treatment for stress is charged with killing five fellow servicemembers, highlights the need for the efforts the Army is making to deal with mental illness,
May 14, 2009 - The defense department’s budget and acquisition reform efforts represent a dramatic, and needed, departure from the past, so that the U.S. military can stay strong and be flexible in challenging times.
May 13, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stands behind President Barack Obama’s decision today to fight releasing hundreds of photos of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon spokesman said.
May 12, 2009 - The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) was decommissioned May 12 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., after more than 48 years of service.
May 11, 2009 - Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed here, but those who serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, 143rd Military Police Detachment.
May 11, 2009 - Five military spouses received recognition for their valued service to the nation at an award ceremony here May 7.
May 11, 2009 - Eighty-six soldiers and civilians stationed here “joined” efforts with Minnesota National Guard soldiers in Minnesota to participate in the 12th Annual Bataan Memorial March yesterday.
May 10, 2009 - Taliban operatives shaking down villages for money appear to have forced civilians to remain in buildings that were bombed in the course of a long May 4 firefight, the commander of U.S. Central Command said today.
May 08, 2009 - As coalition forces move out of Iraqi cities under the U.S.-Iraq security agreement that took effect in January, their facility requirements change.
May 08, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates wrapped up a two-day visit to Afghanistan today, telling reporters he’s optimistic about efforts under way and the initiatives he pushed to support them.
May 07, 2009 - Staff Sgt. Daniel Acosta woke May 7 thinking he was a senior airman. He was surprised to discover that he was promoted to staff sergeant without his knowledge.
May 07, 2009 - Soldiers and medics can recognize physical combat injuries and external wounds easily, but it is much more difficult to spot and treat mental wounds.
May 07, 2009 - The Pentagon’s chief financial officer today described the Defense Department’s fiscal 2010 funding request as a “reform budget.”
May 07, 2009 - Tanya Queiro, a former Marine Corps noncommissioned officer, was named the 2009 Military Spouse of the Year at a ceremony held here today.
May 06, 2009 - Former North Carolina governors Jim Martin and Jim Hunt have been named as honorary co-chairs of the North Carolina Heroes Fund Statewide Advisory Board.
May 06, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today called the mentorship that U.S. forces are providing the Saudi Arabian military a key factor in maintaining stability in the region.
May 05, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates praised Egypt today as a key U.S. ally and said progress on a wide range of security issues in the region will require Egypt’s “full participation and leadership.”
May 05, 2009 - The United States’ maritime supremacy allows the Defense Department to slow production of sea-based defense systems.
May 04, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is en route to Egypt and Saudi Arabia for sessions aimed at reaffirming ties with the important regional powers that both have strong military-to-military relationships with the United States.
May 04, 2009 - The type of “hybrid warfare” that defense experts predict the United States is increasingly likely to face will pull the military in two directions, the Defense Department’s top policy official said today.
May 03, 2009 - The recent push by Taliban forces to take more ground in Pakistan has served as a wake-up call for the government there, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.
April 30, 2009 - As the Department of Veterans Affairs begins accepting sign-ups tomorrow for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, officials are encouraging anyone considering enrolling in the program to get educated about it first to ensure it’s right for them.
April 30, 2009 - The road to recovery for a wounded soldier can be long and difficult, but with the help of Army medicine and the love of military spouses and children, that road is shorter and smoother.
April 28, 2009 - Country singer and troop supporter Toby Keith finished up a 15-show tour in Afghanistan yesterday as he drew near the end of his seventh tour with the United Service Organizations.
April 28, 2009 - President Barack Obama’s nominee for Navy Secretary pledged to address the service’s acquisition process to ensure sailors, Marines, and taxpayers aren’t shortchanged.
April 27, 2009 - A lot of questions are likely to rush through your head when you’re out on the battlefield and the enemy projectiles come flying.
April 25, 2009 - Iraqi Kurds and Arabs must compromise to realize the full potential of the country, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said during a visit here today.
April 24, 2009 - Two Special Forces soldiers who are close friends have much in common. Both were wounded in combat -- one in Iraq, the other Afghanistan.
April 23, 2009 - Many Air Force attorneys spend their days providing legal counsel and preparing legal documents, but for one Air Force captain being deployed means serving in a one of a kind legal position.
April 20, 2009 - Suicide rates, operational tempo and homeless veterans were some of the topics facing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a news conference following a visit with wounded soldiers and their families at Brooke Army Medical Center.
April 20, 2009 - The Veterans Affairs Department has launched its new “Returning Veterans” Web site at http:// www.oefoif.va.gov to welcome home veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with a social, veteran-centric Web site that focuses on their needs.
April 17, 2009 - It is often said a dog is a man's best friend. For a Joint Expeditionary Tasking, or JET, Airman here, his dog is not just a friend, but a tool that could mean life or death for servicemembers patrolling the Iraqi streets.
April 17, 2009 - Making sure 'we get it right' for the nation’s soldiers and their families is his top priority, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told about 400 4th Infantry Division soldiers here yesterday.
April 16, 2009 - U.S. servicemembers' combat missions over the years -- in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq -- have earned them the support and thanks of a grateful nation, Vice President Joe Biden told troops at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., today.
April 15, 2009 - As the world prepares to mark Earth Day 2009 on April 22, the Pentagon has become the “greenest” of federal agencies, with military operations worldwide deriving a full 10 percent of their power from sources other than fossil fuels.
April 14, 2009 - Navigating the federal job application process can be mindboggling, but veterans can have a personal guide thanks to a new Military Order of the Purple Heart Web site.
April 14, 2009 - Airmen in Southwest Asia must work with other American servicemembers to have synchronized forces support a ground commander's mission objectives.
April 14, 2009 - U.S. soldiers could remain in Mosul, Iraq, past June 30, when Iraqi forces are scheduled to assume full security responsibilities for the entire country, a senior U.S. military commander in the area said today.
April 14, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today stopped here today to find out how fast the home of Army aviation could expand training operations here.
April 12, 2009 - The U.S. is on track to meet the terms of a timeline of withdrawal from Iraq, the top American commander in Iraq said today.
April 10, 2009 - President Barack Obama yesterday forwarded the White House’s $83.4-billion war supplemental appropriations request to the U.S. House of Representatives.
April 09, 2009 - The proposed Department of Veterans Affairs funding request will provide more post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury services to combat veterans
April 09, 2009 - Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, attended the Welcome Home Ceremony for the 18th Airborne Corps yesterday at Fort Bragg, N.C.
April 08, 2009 - Vice President Joe Biden welcomed home the 18th Airborne Corps headquarters today during a ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C., after the soldiers spent nearly 15 months deployed in Iraq.
April 07, 2009 - In a surprise visit to Iraq today, President Barack Obama declared to troops in Baghdad that now is the time for Iraqis “to take responsibility for their country.”
April 07, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says the changes to the budget that he proposed yesterday will provide a “home” for warfighters that doesn’t currently exist in the Pentagon’s institutions.
April 06, 2009 - President Barack Obama addressed Turkey’s Parliament today in Ankara, calling America’s partnership with Turkey and the Muslim world critical in “rolling back the violent ideologies” and strengthening “opportunities for all its people.”
April 06, 2009 - Servicemembers at war can be confronted with traumatic, sometimes shocking, events that can cause long-lasting emotional and psychological wounds.
April 02, 2009 - Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Stamatelos realized he had two choices after waking up two years ago with severe wounds in the intensive care unit at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
April 01, 2009 - Ever imagine filling up the fuel tanks on a military aircraft with french fry grease? It’s no April Fools' Day joke -- that’s exactly what the Air Force could do someday if a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research program proves successful.
April 01, 2009 - Those in uniform must always remember their fallen comrades and their families, and those families deserve help in enduring their heartache, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here last night.
March 31, 2009 - The security and political situation in Iraq continues to improve, but ethno-sectarian agendas and other obstacles remain, according to Defense Department findings.
March 31, 2009 - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently presented a $12,636 check to American Recreational Military Services to help the troop-support group ship care packages overseas to deployed servicemembers.
March 31, 2009 - Someone who has lived with a disability for more years than he cares to count knows exactly what newly disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are going through
March 30, 2009 - American service members deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan continue to fight against a hidden enemy whose strategies include the use of various improvised explosive devices, as well as hasty and planned ambushes.
March 30, 2009 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today recognized eight civil servants for their positive impact on national security and their efforts in support of the Joint Staff throughout the past year.
March 29, 2009 - President Barack Obama said today his new strategy for what he calls “America’s war” is intended to zero in on the heart of the matter at hand in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
March 27, 2009 - An infantryman for most of his Army career, Army Staff Sgt. Josh Olson never dreamed he would someday become an internationally ranked shooter with the Army's World Class Athlete Program.
March 27, 2009 - Members of the Minnesota, Colorado, North and South Dakota National Guards, as well as U.S. Northern Command, have responded to the effects of severe weather that has hit several states in the northern United States in the past several days.
March 26, 2009 - While deployed in Iraq, the towering Hesco barriers that ringed the base became a familiar sight to Army Spc. Ryan L. Karsky.
March 26, 2009 - President Barack Obama promised during an online town hall meeting today to ensure returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan receive the benefits and support they deserve.
March 26, 2009 - Military and civilian officials gathered March 23 to commemorate the 10,000th surface shipment of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, known as MRAPs, to the U.S. Central Command area of operations, which includes Iraq and Afghanistan.
March 26, 2009 - Thirty years ago, an infantry corporal named Jan Scruggs boldly set out to build a national memorial. Since then, as a result of his determination, millions of people have found comfort and closure at the Vietnam Memorial known as The Wall.
March 25, 2009 - President Barack Obama made an unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery today, surprising about 30 of the 98 living Medal of Honor recipients attending a wreath-laying ceremony.
March 24, 2009 - When an improvised explosive device is detected, most people run and take cover, but a team of servicemembers here heads straight to the site to start the crime-scene investigation
March 24, 2009 - Two Air Force medical officers highlighted military efforts to identify and assist servicemembers with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder at a military mental health care seminar here yesterday.
March 24, 2009 - Upwards of $40 billion dollars in savings could be realized by eliminating wasteful programs in the Pentagon’s procurement budget, President Barack Obama said during his nationally televised news conference.
March 23, 2009 - During Women’s History Month, many Americans take time to salute the contributions of women.
March 23, 2009 - President Barack Obama called his decision to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan the toughest so far in his presidency, but said last night the mission there is critical to protecting the United States and its interests.
March 21, 2009 - In an environment such as Iraq, where the weather can be sunny and beautiful one day and overcast and windy the next, service members deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom have grown accustomed to the fact that when a sandstorm arrives, the mail
March 20, 2009 - The National Amputee Golf Association’s First Swing program's mission is twofold: to help military golf instructors learn how to work with wounded warriors and to encourage wounded servicemembers to get back into the swing of an active lifestyle.
March 20, 2009 - The Army, Navy and Air Force nurse corps are highly trained, capable and critical to the wartime mission of each service, the corps’ leaders told a congressional committee this week.
March 20, 2009 - Defense Department officials today announced 3,000 projects that the economic stimulus legislation signed last month will fund.
March 19, 2009 - The federal economic stimulus package will provide $621 million to build a new military hospital at Fort Hood, Texas, President Barack Obama said today.
March 19, 2009 - When Cpl. Christapher M. Bess and Lance Cpls. Ryan D. Leftwich and Eric C. Armstrong deployed to Iraq with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) in January 2009, they never thought they would find themselves fixing phone lines and computer networks.
March 19, 2009 - Modern war is ever-evolving. With more and more battlefield technologies and mechanical equipment available to the military, it is still as important for Marines to be able to turn wrenches as it is for them to pilot jets and fire weapons.
March 18, 2009 - The U.S. military must continue to develop its capability to wage irregular warfare for the foreseeable future, the chief of U.S. Joint Forces Command told the House Armed Services Committee here today.
March 18, 2009 - If a pilot ever finds himself in the cockpit of a North Carolina Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with a female aviator, he will have no doubt who she is – there’s only one.
March 16, 2009 - Spouses of soldiers in the 18th Airborne Corps have a better idea of how to reconnect with their other halves upon redeployment, thanks to the Army’s Battlemind reunion training.
March 16, 2009 - Caring for veterans is a responsibility and duty for all Americans, and the employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are those who are charged with repaying “that debt of honor,” President Barack Obama said.
March 13, 2009 - First lady Michelle Obama, having just returned from a meeting yesterday with military families at Fort Bragg, N.C., reiterated today on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” her commitment to ensuring they get the support they deserve.
March 13, 2009 - The 74th Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter, resigned his office March 13 as planned. Winter had agreed to remain in office until March 13 to ease the transition of the Department of Defense.
March 12, 2009 - First lady Michelle Obama will meet today with military families and several organizations that support them during her first visit here as first lady.
March 12, 2009 - President Barack Obama nominated Christopher R. Hill as ambassador to Iraq and Army Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry to serve as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan yesterday.
March 11, 2009 - The first M1114 Humvee to be completely rebuilt at the Taji National Maintenance Depot here rolled out of the Main Wheel Assembly and Disassembly facility last week.
March 09, 2009 - Military leaders in Iraq have begun working toward achieving President Barack Obama’s goal of a complete troop withdrawal from Iraq by the end of 2010.
March 08, 2009 - Two Army brigades leaving Iraq in the next six months won’t be replaced, Multinational Force Iraq officials announced today.
March 06, 2009 - The National Guard is playing an essential role domestically and overseas, Gen. Craig McKinley said here March 6, challenging leaders to do more with the same amount of money.
March 06, 2009 - The Army has created a suicide prevention task force as part of its month-long “stand-down” to address suicides among soldiers, the service’s vice chief of staff said yesterday.
March 06, 2009 - Portable electronic devices such as iPods and cell phones have provided U.S. adversaries in Iraq and Afghanistan with lethal capabilities, the Army’s chief of electronic warfare said this week.
March 05, 2009 - Mild traumatic brain injury, also known as a concussion, affects from 10 to 20 percent of servicemembers returning from combat deployment in Iraq or Afghanistan.
March 04, 2009 - President Barack Obama today pledged to ensure the security of the American people while trimming fat from the Defense Department budget and reforming government contracting.
March 01, 2009 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the president’s decision to redeploy American troops from Iraq is the responsible one.
February 28, 2009 - President Barack Obama called decisions to send troops to Iraq and Afghanistan “the most important, most sobering” he makes.
February 27, 2009 - As President Barack Obama today set a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq, he praised the military troops and families who have volunteered to “bear the heaviest burden.”
February 26, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has called for forthright, collegial discussions among Defense Department leaders to make tough choices about programs, projects and procurement as the defense portion of the fiscal 2010 federal budget takes shape.
February 25, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has called for forthright, collegial discussions among Defense Department leaders to make tough choices about programs, projects and procurement as the defense portion of the fiscal 2010 federal budget takes shape.
February 24, 2009 - Servicemembers are more practical about their retirement needs than their civilian counterparts, according to a survey conducted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
February 24, 2009 - Americans are not quitters, and the country can overcome the difficulties facing it, President Barack Obama said tonight in his first speech before a joint session of Congress.
February 23, 2009 - Ending the military’s so-called “stop-loss” program is a priority for Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, a senior official said here today.
February 23, 2009 - A brigade commander in Baghdad today reported record-low violence as Iraqi security forces assume ever-increasing responsibilities.
February 21, 2009 - A tour of the Traumatic Brain Injury Warrior Resiliency and Recovery Center here yesterday made a favorable impression on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
February 20, 2009 - The U.S. military fielded its 10,000th mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle in Iraq today during a ceremony on Camp Liberty, just 22 months after it was introduced into the theater of operations.
February 20, 2009 - Citizens of Wisconsin gathered this week to send the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team off to Iraq with tears and smiles in the Wisconsin National Guard’s largest operational deployment since World War II.
February 19, 2009 - A Colorado-based group is connecting deployed troops with volunteers eager to “adopt” them.
February 17, 2009 - The 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing received a new MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft and immediately put it into action here Feb. 13.
February 17, 2009 - Arizona Army and Air National Guardsmen were honored for their combat service Feb. 15 with an opportunity to score against National Basketball Association greats Shaquille O’Neal and David Robinson during the 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend here.
February 17, 2009 - More troops will be needed to adapt to U.S. Army Europe’s evolving missions, the top Army officer in Europe said during a Pentagon news conference today.
February 17, 2009 - President Barack Obama has ordered a Marine expeditionary brigade and an Army Stryker brigade combat team -- totaling 12,000 soldiers and Marines -- to Afghanistan.
February 16, 2009 - Russia’s perceived strengths and its policies, tensions in Eurasia, Caucasus and Central Asia, and instability in the Balkans all pose challenges to U.S. interests in Europe, the director of national intelligence said Feb. 12.
February 14, 2009 - The global economic crisis colors all other threats confronting the United States, the new director of national intelligence told the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 12.
February 13, 2009 - Help is only a phone call away for military veterans considering suicide.
February 11, 2009 - A revolutionary, entrepreneurial approach to safety program management has earned induction into the Air Force Safety Hall of Fame for an Air National Guard officer here.
February 11, 2009 - About 55,000 members of U.S. Special Operations Command are providing humanitarian aid and training soldiers and police in more than 60 countries, according to their commander Navy Adm. Eric Olson.
February 11, 2009 - The noncommissioned officer in charge of training operations for the Warrior Transition Battalion here appears to be a typical soldier.
February 10, 2009 - Discussions within the administration about the fiscal 2010 defense budget have been cordial and productive, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today, but department leaders are prepared to make tough choices.
February 10, 2009 - U.S. forces are stretched, but they are resilient, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
February 09, 2009 - President Barack Obama said tonight the most sobering moment of his nascent presidency has been signing letters to families of fallen troops.
February 06, 2009 - All portions of the U.S. government have a role in dealing with any instability that results from the world’s financial crisis, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here yesterday.
February 04, 2009 - Iraq’s government and its security forces deserve praise for overseeing the successful and mostly violence-free provincial elections that were held countrywide Jan. 31, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today.
February 04, 2009 - Army Maj. Gen. David Blackledge is doing his part to reduce the social stigma attached to seeking mental health treatment for war-related stress.
February 04, 2009 - As the nation enters its eighth year of war, the military’s highest-ranking officer says he is concerned about the health of the armed forces. He wants to ensure the country takes care of its men and women in uniform.
February 03, 2009 - More U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to confront insurgent violence and to establish “a baseline of security” there, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters here today.
February 03, 2009 - In a speech aimed at American youth, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, encouraged the college-aged generation last night to help shape their country’s future.
February 02, 2009 - An Army Reserve human capital strategy called the Employer Partnership Initiative is delivering staffing solutions and tangible incentives to businesses that employ Army Reserve soldiers while sustaining the operational nature of today’s force.
February 02, 2009 - Adapting new capabilities within the rapidly changing military space environment is increasingly important to national security.
February 02, 2009 - A Military Health System Web site continues to help returning servicemembers and families adjust after a deployment ends, the site’s program manager said Jan. 29.
February 02, 2009 - The reserve components are now an integral part of American military might, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Reserve Officers Association here today.
February 01, 2009 - Senior military officials congratulated the Iraqi people for holding provincial elections yesterday, praising the Iraqi and U.S. forces that helped make the elections safe.
January 29, 2009 - Stephen Cochran was a normal 19-year-old with a dream of making music his life when the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led him down an unplanned path to the Marine Corps.
January 29, 2009 - The Army is committed to finding out why more soldiers committed suicide in 2008 than ever recorded, Army officials told reporters during a media roundtable today at the Pentagon.
January 29, 2009 - President Barack Obama thanked U.S. troops and pledged to provide the resources they need to accomplish their missions Jan. 28 in his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief.
January 29, 2009 - As Armed Services Blood Program officials join with the rest of the nation in observing National Blood Donor Month, the program's director expressed gratitude for the more than 165,000 donations.
January 29, 2009 - From fighter jet flyovers to military performances at halftime shows, the National Football League and U.S. military have shared more than 40 years of Super Bowl history.
January 28, 2009 - As part of the shift in the U.S. focus in the war on terror, Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division's, 3rd Brigade Combat Team are taking up positions in eastern Afghanistan that until now have had little coalition presence.
January 28, 2009 - A civilian journalist received a top Navy honor in Iraq on Jan. 24 for his heroism in saving a Marine’s life while in Afghanistan.
January 28, 2009 - In his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief, President Barack Obama today thanked U.S. troops and pledged to provide the resources they need to accomplish their missions.
January 27, 2009 - Afghanistan poses the greatest military challenge to the United States today, and President Barack Obama has made that country a top priority for the Defense Department.
January 27, 2009 - The National Guard must be able to meet its domestic responsibilities in addition to its operational missions, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
January 27, 2009 - One of the main challenges facing the Defense Department is how the department acquires goods and services and manages the taxpayers’ money, Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
January 26, 2009 - A pulsing cavity, throbbing with pain, can cause most people to experience an overwhelming feeling of frustration and irritation.
January 26, 2009 - A Defense Department program is transforming military health care during deployment by enhancing communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals, a master trainer in the program said.
January 23, 2009 - Army Spc. Sergio Trejo always dreamed of owning his own home.
January 23, 2009 - The U.S. military will focus its efforts on achieving shorter-term goals there, the Defense Department’s top official said here yesterday.
January 23, 2009 - As the Defense Department prepares plans to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, defense officials acknowledge the possibility that released detainees could return to the battlefield.
January 22, 2009 - President Barack Obama’s decision to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has made a positive impression in the world community, and that will assist America in its fight against global terrorism.
January 21, 2009 - Responding to a presidential directive, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday ordered a suspension of active military commission proceedings at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Pentagon official said here today.
January 21, 2009 - Afghanistan, “dwell time” at home stations between deployments and the health of the force are at the forefront of concerns the Defense Department must address, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
January 21, 2009 - As President Barack Obama and the first family began moving into the presidential residence here yesterday, the administration unpacked a new presidential agenda on the White House’s official Web site.
January 21, 2009 - Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and military spouses attended the Commander in Chief Ball, Jan. 20, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
January 20, 2009 - President Barack Obama pledged a “prudent use” of military power as the nation works toward “ushering in a new era of peace” in his inaugural address to the nation today.
January 19, 2009 - America’s most senior defense leaders honored 43 men who risked their lives with unmatched heroism in service to their country during a luncheon here today.
January 18, 2009 - Iraqi security forces and U.S. soldiers seized weapons caches and arrested a suspected criminal in the Baghdad area Jan. 16, military officials reported.
January 16, 2009 - Instead of deploying to Kuwait, about 500 Navy Seabees will deploy to Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said today.
January 15, 2009 - As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to assume the role of commander in chief, one of the stated items on his list of priorities is to shape the U.S. military for the 21st century.
January 15, 2009 - President George W. Bush singled out military members for their selfless service and cited his administration’s accomplishments over the past eight years during his farewell address to the nation.
January 14, 2009 - President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs promised senators today that if he is confirmed he will transform the department into a 21st-century organization.
January 13, 2009 - Thousands of people are expected to come together Feb. 16 to make an 8.15 mile trek for the 2009 Hawaiian Telcom Great Aloha Run, one of Hawaii’s top participation races, which benefits organizations across the island.
January 13, 2009 - Rosa Shaver and her fellow Marines are welcomed to work every morning by more than 2,000 Marine Corps weapon systems to include M-16 and M4 rifles, M9 pistols, M249 Squad Automatic Weapons, 240G medium machine guns, .50 caliber Browning machine guns.
January 12, 2009 - The Marine Corps is moving toward a different mission in Iraq as it progresses further into the early months of 2009.
January 10, 2009 - President George W. Bush said this morning he’s had no higher honor during his eight years as president than serving as commander in chief to the “brave patriots” of the U.S. military.
January 09, 2009 - Army officials are creating a new way to field force-protection products, such as mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, to speed their delivery to deployed soldiers in Iraq.
January 08, 2009 - A Disney vacation just got more affordable for military members and their families.
January 08, 2009 - Iraq has witnessed “some remarkable milestones” already this month, with more on the horizon, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today.
January 08, 2009 - President-elect Barack Obama today announced his choices for four key Defense Department positions: deputy defense secretary, two undersecretary positions and general counsel.
January 07, 2009 - Standing before a muddy, mangled mess of concrete, metal and wood, a squad of combat-hardened Marines hastily planned the attack, their target waiting somewhere deep in the debris.
January 07, 2009 - Active and retired U.S. military personnel, including active members of the United States Coast Guard and activated members of the National Guard or Reserves, can enjoy complimentary, multi-day admission into Disney’s U.S. theme parks.
January 07, 2009 - As the United States carries out the terms of its new status-of-forces agreement with Iraq, it has the opportunity to successfully conclude the American effort in Iraq and gain a long-term democratic partner in the Middle East.
January 06, 2009 - Gates called Bush a visionary who recognized before becoming president the threat terrorists and other unconventional threats posed.
January 06, 2009 - With 15 days left in office, President George W. Bush today reflected on a list of “lasts” that includes his final weeks as the commander of U.S. military forces.
January 05, 2009 - Young men and women frequently follow the footsteps of their parents and grandparents by joining the military.
January 05, 2009 - The U.S.-coalition military campaign that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003 has placed Iraq in a much-improved situation today, Vice President Richard B. Cheney said during a nationally televised news program yesterday.
January 04, 2009 - United States officials formally transferred the Republican Palace back to the Iraqi government Jan. 1, a concrete symbol of the continuing improvement in the country.
January 02, 2009 - Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Rodney McKinley and more than 700 Airmen preparing to graduate from basic military training honored the Air Force's enlisted heroes during today's dedication of the new Enlisted Heroes Walk here.
January 02, 2009 - The national symbol of Iraq was raised over the governance center here Dec. 30 symbolizing the transition of control of a security station from the coalition forces back to the Iraqi government.
January 01, 2009 - Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations Dec. 31, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
January 01, 2009 - The United States formally transferred the Republican Palace back to the Iraqi government today, a concrete symbol of the continuing improvement in the country.
December 31, 2008 - Like many high school seniors, Megan Schlotthauer wasn't sure what she wanted to do after graduation. Her grades weren't the best, and college is expensive.
December 31, 2008 - Optimally managing the unique head and neck injury patterns seen in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a successful initiative at Wilford Hall Medical Center here.
December 31, 2008 - As Pakistani troops apply renewed pressure on militants who have threatened a major supply line, military transportation officials are seeking alternate routes for supplying U.S. and NATO troops deployed in Afghanistan.
December 29, 2008 - Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr. told troops in Baghdad just before Christmas that their efforts have brought "heartening" progress in Iraq that will allow the Army to throw more of its "weight" toward Afghanistan.
December 29, 2008 - In January 1979, the first operational F-16 Fighting Falcon was delivered to Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Nearly 30 years later to the day, a pilot from here has amassed 4,000 hours flying this workhorse of the air.
December 29, 2008 - The general who leads what he calls “an engineer fight” in Baghdad credits attention to sanitation and reconstruction of essential services with creating a dramatic turnaround that’s having a ripple effect throughout Iraq.
December 29, 2008 - The blast of a roadside bomb in Iraq's Sunni Triangle resulted in the amputation of a portion of Richard Ingram's left arm, but it did not rob him of his dream of becoming an Army officer.
December 28, 2008 - Soldiers serving in the Army Reserve long had the stigma of being second-class soldiers.
December 27, 2008 - Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Dec. 26, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
December 26, 2008 - Members of the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team and the Chaparhar Police Mentor Team visited a school in the Terelay Village to distribute clothes and school supplies.
December 25, 2008 - 'Twas the night before Christmas, as America still slept, the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing stood combat ready, to protect freedom at a moment's notice.
December 25, 2008 - Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey made a stop in Baghdad, Dec. 22, 2008, to assess the current situation in country and speak with troops.
December 24, 2008 - Airmen of the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit here use innovative training that allows them to thwart terrorist attacks.
December 24, 2008 - Beyond the well-worn paths to self-care, evidence suggests volunteerism -- a selfless act -- also achieves similar results: a longer and happier life.
December 24, 2008 - The military command charged with training Iraq’s security forces and the Iraqi Interior Ministry continue to make progress in the development of the Iraqi security forces and the ministry, a senior military official said.
December 24, 2008 - President George W. Bush telephoned nine deployed servicemembers from each military branch this morning to pass along holiday greetings and thank them for their service.
December 23, 2008 - The Army's top officer stopped at Bagram Airfield Dec. 20 as part of a trip to visit Soldiers around the world during the holiday season and discuss the way forward.
December 23, 2008 - After meeting with top military and intelligence officials yesterday in Islamabad, Pakistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff emphasized the importance of U.S.-Pakistan relations in the fight against terrorism.
December 23, 2008 - Sather Air Base Airmen destroyed one of the larger enemy weapons caches to be collected at one time in the Iraq theater of operations.
December 22, 2008 - Joint Airborne Battle Staff members here are similar to 911 operators in the air as they ensure convoys operating throughout Iraq are never without communications.
December 22, 2008 - The absence of new terrorist attacks on the United States since 9/11 reflects the success of the nation’s anti-terror programs and policies, Vice President Richard B. Cheney said yesterday on the “Fox News Sunday” television show.
December 22, 2008 - The Army’s top officer stopped here Dec. 20 during a trip to visit soldiers around the world during the holiday season to spend some time with the troops and to discuss with them the way forward for the Army.
December 22, 2008 - Power-projection platforms across the Army will soon receive a new training device designed to keep deploying Soldiers from drowning when their vehicles overturn into water.
December 19, 2008 - American and Ukrainian defense leaders are working together to assist Ukraine in its quest to develop modern, democratically managed armed forces, a senior U.S. military officer said here yesterday.
December 18, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates hopes commanders with a “vested interest” in the future role of U.S. forces in Iraq can share their views directly with the incoming president, a Pentagon official said today.
December 17, 2008 - Military operations launched in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11 brought the fight to terrorists and, with other initiatives, are helping to safeguard America against another attack.
December 15, 2008 - A Christmas tree farm in Whitehouse, Ohio, is celebrating the holiday season by giving away 100 Christmas trees to military families.
December 15, 2008 - In his final trip to Iraq and Afghanistan as commander in chief, President George W. Bush brought season’s greetings from “a proud and grateful nation” to deployed U.S. troops yesterday and early this morning and thanked them for their service.
December 14, 2008 - President Bush paid a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday, where he praised lawmakers in Baghdad for passing the status of forces agreement with the United States and offered a farewell message of thanks to U.S. troops serving there.
December 13, 2008 - U.S. combat forces are on track to be out of Iraqi cities by June 30 in accordance with the recently signed status of forces agreement between the United States and Iraq, the top U.S. general in Iraq said today.
December 13, 2008 - The mission in Iraq is still relevant despite the recent political attention on the fight in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told troops here today.
December 12, 2008 - An 18-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department is achieving another veteran status here, this time as a soldier.
December 11, 2008 - Airmen with the 557th Expeditionary RED HORSE Squadron witnessed the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a community center Dec. 5 in Hawr Rajab.
December 11, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told several hundred troops here today that a sense of duty caused him to agree to stay on in his current job through the administration change.
December 11, 2008 - For only the second time since 9/11, a U.S. Army National Guard division headquarters will deploy to command active-duty forces in combat.
December 10, 2008 - Four individuals who have supported America's military, including two retired officers and a television star, were among 23 people who received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony today.
December 09, 2008 - In his last scheduled visit to a service academy while in office, President George W. Bush told Army cadets today that the U.S. military has transformed to face threats it faces now and in the future.
December 09, 2008 - The Air Force’s only traumatic brain injury center, at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, is diagnosing and treating predominantly Army patients with a focus on improving their chances of a full recovery.
December 09, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met yesterday with Vice President-elect Joe Biden as Gates continues to work to ensure the department’s transition between the two administrations is as seamless as possible.
December 08, 2008 - Gen. Martin E. Dempsey assumed command Monday from Gen. William S. Wallace at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command headquarters on Fort Monroe.
December 08, 2008 - Army Gen. William S. Wallace today relinquished the colors of the U.S. Army command responsible for developing soldiers’ skills and doctrine.
December 08, 2008 - President-elect Barack Obama has selected retired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki as his nominee to be secretary of veterans affairs.
December 07, 2008 - Coalition forces in Iraq apprehended an alleged key member of the Kataib Hezbollah network and two other suspects during an operation early today in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district.
December 06, 2008 - The war in Iraq isn’t over, but a successful end is in sight, thanks to hard work between the United States and Iraq, President George W. Bush said in his weekly radio address today.
December 05, 2008 - The new U.S.-Iraq security pact that was approved by Iraqi lawmakers Nov. 27 was ratified by Iraq's Presidency Council Thursday, senior U.S. officials said.
December 04, 2008 - Test results show Combat Gauze field bandages and WoundStat granules both demonstrated marked improvements over what's currently used to control bleeding in the field.
December 04, 2008 - The Army's vice chief of staff warned researchers Dec. 2 not to let "institutional antibodies" quash ideas and innovations that have the potential to provide Soldiers advantage in the future.
December 03, 2008 - More troops may now qualify for benefits under Traumatic Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance because of newly expanded coverage following a review by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
December 02, 2008 - About 4,000 soldiers representing the National Guard’s only Stryker brigade will deploy to Iraq in early 2009.
December 02, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will devote himself to resolving challenges facing the Defense Department while serving as part of the administration of President-elect Barack Obama.
December 01, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will remain in the Pentagon’s top post when President-elect Barack Obama’s administration takes office.
December 01, 2008 - President-elect Barack Obama cited the need for continuity as the United States fights two wars.
December 01, 2008 - The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms.
December 01, 2008 - The Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment expected to spend a second consecutive Christmas in Iraq.
November 28, 2008 - President George W. Bush and other senior U.S. officials hailed the new U.S.-Iraq security pact that was approved by Iraqi lawmakers in Baghdad yesterday.
November 28, 2008 - Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations Nov. 27, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
November 26, 2008 - When her husband deployed to Iraq in January of 2006, Sonja McDonald decided to spend her time waiting for his return home, raising money to help wounded warriors and their families.
November 26, 2008 - Thousands of necks craned as Air Force One swooped down from a blue sky to deliver President George W. Bush to a Nov. 25 rally in honor of Fort Campbell troops and their families.
November 25, 2008 - President George W. Bush kicked off his last Thanksgiving week as commander in chief today by thanking the soldiers of Fort Campbell, Ky.
November 25, 2008 - A hospital corpsman with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group’s 2nd Medical Battalion was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with a combat distinguishing device in an awards ceremony here, Nov. 19th.
November 23, 2008 - While looking into the vast expanse of the desert, it’s hard to fathom anyone spending more than a few minutes out there, let alone working with unexploded ordnance (UXO) for hours, if not days, on end.
November 22, 2008 - Utility Marines with Support Platoon, Company B, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5 routinely aid the platoon in construction efforts throughout the al-Anbar province.
November 22, 2008 - When Lt. Col. Geoff Rollins took command of 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team in October 2006, he had a daunting task before him.
November 21, 2008 - Conventional military wisdom holds that enemies have a vote in combat. But manufacturers of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle have worked to disenfranchise them.
November 21, 2008 - Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. recently outlined three topics he believes are important for the Army to address with the incoming administration.
November 20, 2008 - Coalition forces captured five wanted men and detained 10 additional suspects during operations targeting terrorist networks throughout Iraq yesterday and today, military officials reported.
November 20, 2008 - With his visit falling on
November 19, 2008 - About 20 members of a Wahpeton Reserve Marine unit are preparing for duty in Iraq next year, including four who just returned from there.
November 19, 2008 - Warrior Care Month allows us to restate our commitment to the Soldier's life, said Gen. George W. Casey Jr., chief of staff of the Army, during a Purple Heart Ceremony Nov. 17 at the Center for the Intrepid.
November 19, 2008 - The Non-Line of Sight Launch System, being developed as part of the Army's Future Combat Systems, has been selected for use aboard the first of the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ships, the USS Freedom.
November 18, 2008 - Army Service Day and Warrior Care Month activities Monday began with the signing of a Warrior Healthcare Covenant at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
November 18, 2008 - One day before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Army senior leaders put into place a plan to overhaul the service’s combat medic training.
November 18, 2008 - Dealing with the greater Middle East, avoiding the militarization of U.S. foreign policy, resetting the forces and speeding up the Joint Staff are among the priorities the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has set for the coming year.
November 17, 2008 - In his latest "Enlisted Perspective," the Air Force's top enlisted Airman joins other Air Force leaders by focusing his attention on taking care of Airmen and their families, especially those Airmen who have been wounded in the defense of the nation.
November 17, 2008 - The 1-2 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion in Korea will relocate to Fort Carson, Colo., in March and then train for deployment to Iraq in the fall of 2009, Army officials announced Monday morning.
November 17, 2008 - The Army's new Active Protection System, designed to safeguard Soldiers and vehicles from incoming fire, has been named one of the best inventions of 2008 by Time magazine.
November 16, 2008 - Reserve Marines from Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5 based here drove more than 200 miles Nov. 9 to conduct a security patrol and inspect construction of new Iraqi forts along the country’s border with Syria.
November 15, 2008 - Speaking at Army Lt. Gen. Robert Dail's retirement ceremony, Petraeus said Dail's two years as DLA director and 33 total years of service in the Army will have a lasting impact on U.S. warfighters.
November 14, 2008 - As ghostlike Capitol Hill workers scurried through a cold, misty fog early yesterday evening, a nearby group of wounded warriors cosseted in a warm room broke bread and shared stories about far-away lands and future hopes.
November 14, 2008 - Some of the music industry's hottest singers and bands are set to release a free CD of their top hits for servicemembers and their families for the second year in a row Nov. 25.
November 12, 2008 - Four major U.S. mental health groups have joined the network of professionals who donate an hour of their time each week to provide free mental health services to service members and their families.
November 12, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip discussed Russian behavior and new cooperation on cyber security during meetings here today.
November 12, 2008 - The Navy is seeking nominations for candidates to be considered for selection as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), and Sailors from the fleet are sounding off on what they feel is important for the senior enlisted Sailor who represents them.
November 10, 2008 - Taking care of soldiers recovering from wounds, injuries or illness is a job with special challenges and rewards. A new training course is helping people with these special jobs prepare to make a positive impact on the lives of those who have sacrificed m
November 10, 2008 - The roar of nearly 1,200 motorcycle engines split the morning air at Hood Stadium here Nov. 7 as soldiers and civilians in the “Phantom Thunder” motorcycle safety event started their ride to Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.
November 10, 2008 - As he prepares to observe his first Veterans Day as Veterans Affairs secretary, Dr. James B. Peake said he believes the United States is living up to Abraham Lincoln’s pledge to care for “him who has borne the battle, and his widow and his orphan.”
November 10, 2008 - The crew of USS Freedom (LCS 1) ushered in a new era in naval warfare, Nov. 8 as the ship was brought to life at Milwaukee's Veterans Park before a crowd of nearly 10,000.
November 07, 2008 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last night saluted an organization dedicated to keeping America connected with its military.
November 07, 2008 - Instability in the Middle East is front and center on the list of concerns the Joint Chiefs of Staff confronts, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said yesterday.
November 06, 2008 - Dramatic security progress in Iraq will allow the U.S. military to reduce troop levels faster than expected, says White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
November 06, 2008 - About 3,000 soldiers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team will leave Iraq nearly two months earlier than planned, military officials said.
November 06, 2008 - President Bush warned today that terrorists could use the government transition under way as an opportunity to attack, and urged his staff to give the incoming administration the support it needs to “hit the ground running.”
November 05, 2008 - On a day when Americans exercised their right to vote, 186 servicemembers deployed across Iraq became U.S. citizensat Al Faw Palace on Camp Victory here.
November 05, 2008 - After overseeing and funding about $8 million in construction in the previous two years in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, the U.S. military had almost $40 million in projects ongoing in the province as fiscal 2008 came to a close Sept. 30.
November 05, 2008 - The Navy’s first littoral combat ship (LCS) Freedom will be commissioned Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008, during a 10 a.m. EST ceremony at Veterans Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
October 31, 2008 - November is Warrior Care Month, and TRICARE seeks to educate wounded, ill and injured (WII) service members about their benefits.
October 31, 2008 - A group of American and Iraqi firefighters have already developed a working relationship that protects people, structures and aircraft here at Baghdad International Airport.
October 31, 2008 - Army Gen. David H. Petraeus assumed leadership of the U.S. military command charged with helping to build peace in a tough and war-torn part of the world today.
October 30, 2008 - Soldiers and their families can expect to spend more time together between deployments thanks to continuing success in Iraq and the steady growth of the Army's ranks, the service's top officer said.
October 30, 2008 - Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter announced Oct. 29 at a Navy SEAL Warrior Fund Benefit Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, the name of the newest Zumwalt-class Destroyer will be USS Michael Monsoor.
October 29, 2008 - The United States is holding out hope that issues delaying a status of forces agreement with Iraq will be resolved before the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing U.S. forces there expires Dec. 31, a senior Pentagon official said today.
October 29, 2008 - A memorial service was held here Oct. 27 for a 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron NCO who was found dead in his housing unit Oct. 23 at Joint Base Balad.
October 28, 2008 - The United States military is the best-manned, best-equipped and best-trained force in the world, but that doesn't mean a thing if it can't get to the fight, said the commander of U.S. Transportation Command.
October 23, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called it an honor “to welcome into citizenship 42 men and women who have served and sacrificed for their country before it officially was their country.”
October 22, 2008 - The program provides a means to directly impact the economy in the Dhi Qar province through employment opportunities, training and mentorship.
October 22, 2008 - The success of airpower in Iraq and Afghanistan incorporates flexibility, agility and teamwork on a daily basis.
October 22, 2008 - The recently formed 51st Translator Interpreter Company at Fort Irwin, Calif., is the first unit of its kind in the Army.
October 22, 2008 - The draft status of forces agreement between the governments of the United States and Iraq contains adequate protections for U.S. military members.
October 22, 2008 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff met with officials here today as he continued to reaffirm America’s commitment to the collective defense of NATO during meetings with allies in the Baltic republics.
October 21, 2008 - An Army unit originally formed to counter weapons of mass destruction in the United States now has more than 6,000 members and will continue to grow.
October 21, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today honored career civilian employees from throughout the department.
October 20, 2008 - Army personnel officials are launching an outreach program as part of a push to hire more wounded warriors and their spouses as civilian employees.
October 19, 2008 - Six months of security posts and sector patrols have come to an end here for Marines.
October 17, 2008 - Servicemembers should not be concerned about the status of forces agreement between the United States and Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.
October 17, 2008 - The Army announced Thursday night that the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter program has been scrapped because development costs had almost tripled from $359 million to $942 million.
September 30, 2008 - A top American commander in Iraq says the country's Shi'ite dominated government will accept responsibility for supporting more than 50,000 mostly Sunni fighters currently armed and paid by the U.S. military.
July 21, 2008 - A former Air Force colonel encouraged the next generation to follow in the footsteps of the World War II heroes during the Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Awards Gala of the 37th Annual Tuskegee Airmen Convention July 19 here.
July 18, 2008 - Members of the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM)-supplied Task Force Ramadi are helping to improve medical and health services in the area of Iraq where they are serving.
July 15, 2008 - Officials who oversee a Defense Department program that provides cultural and linguistic training to soon-to-deploy military personnel have activated a new Web site.
June 29, 2008 - Members of the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM)-supplied Task Force Ramadi are helping to restore water services in the area of Iraq where they are serving.
June 20, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates praised Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden at the general’s military retirement ceremony here today as “the quintessential intelligence professional in government."
June 18, 2008 - Air National Guard officials identified six Airmen as their Airmen of the Year for 2008 following their arrival here June 15 for a week-long celebration and tribute to their achievements.
June 13, 2008 - The Army displayed its latest product line of clothing and equipment here today in the Pentagon courtyard.
June 12, 2008 - Multinational Division Baghdad mechanics ensure every vehicle leaving the base for a mission is in top working order, is safe and is going to be a reliable ride if something bad were to happen.
May 28, 2008 - Officials at the Army's National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, Calif., and the Air Force's Green Flag West at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., have been working hard to integrate service-level exercises to help improve joint training.
May 09, 2008 - Army Staff Sgt. Joshua Flowers has served combat deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and understands firsthand what warfighters need to succeed.
May 06, 2008 - President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates paid tribute today to about 1,100 military spouses who gathered for a Military Spouse Day celebration at the White House, where Bush promised to continue pushing for more benefits for military families.
May 01, 2008 - Seeking mental-health care due to post-traumatic stress will no longer be seen as an obstacle to getting a government security clearance, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced here today.
April 22, 2008 - At 6 a.m., it's another early April morning in Iraq as the two pilots deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, get ready to venture into harm's way yet again.
April 17, 2008 - A study released today shows that nearly 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression, findings that military health officials called “very consistent” with their own.
April 10, 2008 - Three months into his job as detachment commander, Marine Corps Staff Sgt. James Sturla said he’s hard-pressed to find a more interesting or gratifying job than overseeing his fellow Marines who guard the U.S. Embassy here.
April 08, 2008 - A flight engineer with the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing’s 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron surpassed 10,000 flight hours during a KC-10 Extender mission March 29.
April 02, 2008 - Seventy-four-year-old Bob Eiden stood on a snow bank overlooking Snowmass Mountain yesterday, mentally preparing himself for his first experience on skis, 16 months after having his right leg amputated.
March 20, 2008 - President Bush praised the performance and courage of U.S. troops engaged in the global war on terrorism while discussing Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa during a Pentagon Channel interview yesterday.
March 12, 2008 - Mixed teams of Army, Navy and Air Force health-care providers are spent a week treating hundreds of medically-underserved people as part of Operation Arctic Care 2008 in six remote villages in March in Alaska.
March 05, 2008 - As Army Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno was urging the Army’s return to 12-month deployments, an Army brigade here just back from Iraq was getting word that it’s time to start training for its next combat rotation.
February 26, 2008 - The U.S. Army remains ready to engage and defeat America’s enemies despite experiencing strain after seven years of wartime deployments, the Army’s top civilian and military leaders told a Senate panel here today.
February 20, 2008 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff stopped in here yesterday to see how the Marines Corps treats its wounded warriors.
February 14, 2008 - Technology is critical to countering roadside and car bombs and to attacking terrorist networks that emplace them.
February 07, 2008 - In a room lit only by sunlight streaming in, a soldier bites through the plastic wrapper of a package of pencils.
January 28, 2008 - Increasing cooperation across the military health community and responding to health care feedback should guide health professionals serving U.S. troops, a top Pentagon official said.
January 25, 2008 - Joining the Army more than four years ago helped Sgt. Dominic Garza achieve some of his personal goals and improve life for his new family.
January 22, 2008 - Medical evacuation crews from Task Force Marne faced down enemy gunfire to deliver five injured soldiers in Iraq to safety Jan. 18.
January 18, 2008 - An Army report released yesterday outlines how the service can better identify and help soldiers who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
January 17, 2008 - Soldiers supporting Operation Phantom Phoenix, a series of division- and brigade-level strikes against al Qaeda and other extremists in Iraq, continue to disrupt terrorist safe havens and bases throughout the country, military officials reported.
January 14, 2008 - President George W. Bush made a stop in Kuwait Saturday during his Middle East tour to meet with key U.S. leaders and speak to deployed service members.
January 03, 2008 - Today, every Soldier headed to Iraq and Afghanistan receives Battlemind training, but few know the science behind it.
September 25, 2007 - The commitment of ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan is heavy, but the U.S. military has ample forces to respond to any other contingency that may arise, the general in charge of planning for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today.
June 29, 2007 - Chief Petty Officer Richard “Buzz” Bryan isn’t afraid of a fight. A Navy corpsman, he served in two deployments to Iraq with the Marines, including one during the Battle of Fallujah.
May 22, 2007 - Acting Secretary of the Army Pete Geren visited Womack Army Medical Center here today to meet wounded soldiers and take a firsthand look at the programs and treatment offered to soldiers and their families.
April 25, 2007 - Following a six-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf, sailors of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower can return to Norfolk, Va., proudly, knowing that they made a difference in the global war on terror, the ship’s commander said.
December 18, 2006 - “Learn” and “adapt” are the key messages of the new Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which just hit the streets.
October 25, 2006 - While donations have been arriving at Operation Gratitude’s headquarters for some time, the group’s Holiday Drive 2006 officially kicks off on Veterans Day weekend, the group’s founder said.
October 25, 2006 - A report on reconstruction in Iraq says up to half of the money paid to U.S. government contractors goes to administrative costs rather than actual building work.
October 24, 2006 - The U.S. ambassador in Baghdad said Tuesday Iraqi officials are committed to a timeline for making key decisions that will determine the country's future. His statement comes amid increasing pressure for progress in Iraq.
October 22, 2006 - The United States will hold North Korea responsible if it attempts to transfer nuclear bombs or other weapons of mass destruction to America’s enemies, President Bush said on a national television news show.
October 20, 2006 - With the 2.2 percent across-the-board pay raise that is part of the Fiscal 2007 National Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Department will reach its goal to bring military basic pay to the 70th percentile when compared to civilians.
October 19, 2006 - President Bush says the recent upsurge in violence in Iraq is reminiscent of a tactic used by North Vietnamese guerrilla forces at a crucial point during the Vietnam War.
October 17, 2006 - The genocide trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has resumed Tuesday after a five-day break. Witnesses testified about atrocities committed during Saddam's brutal suppression of Iraqi Kurds in 1988.
October 17, 2006 - The fiscal 2007 National Defense Authorization Act provides more than $530 billion to maintain the military in the shape it must be to win the war on terror.
October 16, 2006 - The latest in a series of congressionally mandated reports on the long-term health effects of troop deployments to Southwest Asia from the 1991 Gulf War to present was released.
October 13, 2006 - The U.S. military’s health care community is transforming its approach to capturing, archiving and accessing servicemembers’ medical records, a senior Defense Department official said.
October 11, 2006 - The National Guard recruited 19,000 more Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen in 2006 than it did during the previous year and exceeded its retention goals by record numbers, Guard officials reported in early October.
October 11, 2006 - Women have served in the Air Force for years, making valuable contributions, but gender and race differences have never been an important factor in accomplishing the Air Force mission, the first woman pilot on the Air Force Thunderbirds said.
October 08, 2006 - Iraqi and U.S. soldiers killed about 30 terrorists and detained a high-value target after an attack in Diwaniyah today, U.S. military officials reported.
October 07, 2006 - Many of the World War II veterans sprinkled among the crowd greeted the former president. All ignored the rain to watch Bush’s daughter Dorothy Bush Koch smash a champagne-filled bottle to officially name the 90,000-ton aircraft carrier.
October 01, 2006 - The bill includes an additional $70 billion in emergency funds to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through early next year, including nearly $24 billion for the Army and Marine Corps to repair and replace worn-out equipment.
September 29, 2006 - The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a $447 billion defense spending bill that includes money to continue military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite their support of the bill, Senate Democrats continued criticism of the Bush administration.
September 29, 2006 - A U.S. military commander in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, says more local people are deciding to cooperate with his forces and their Iraqi counterparts, and to end their support for the insurgency.
September 29, 2006 - The United Service Organizations celebrated its 65th anniversary last night and honored troops from each branch of the military for heroism.
September 28, 2006 - The Iranian government is behind shipping components used to make improvised explosive devices to Iraqi insurgents, a senior intelligence official in Iraq said. Labels on weapons stocks seized inside and outside Iraq point to the Iranian government.
September 28, 2006 - Some 12,000 U.S. troops in 14 eastern provinces of Afghanistan will come under NATO control in the near future following a decision by the alliance’s defense ministers.
September 27, 2006 - USA Cares recently received a $2.5 million grant to further its mission of assisting servicemembers and their families, organization officials said.
September 26, 2006 - To dispel rumors and speculation about the findings of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which was recently leaked to the media, Bush announced that he is declassifying the document so the public can draw their own conclusions.
September 26, 2006 - Eighty-eight years after being killed in action along the not-so-quiet Western Front of World War I, Army Pvt. Francis Lupo of Cincinnati was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
September 24, 2006 - The U.S. Coast Guard will be featured in two major productions debuting this month: an original documentary episode of Recon airing on the Pentagon Channel entitled 'Always Ready' and a Hollywood feature film entitled 'The Guardian.'
September 22, 2006 - The M-16 A4, an upgraded version of the eight pound weapon adopted by the Marine Corps as the standard issue assault rifle in 1983, is useless without trained individuals to properly use it. Marines like Sgt. Michael A. Hauck ensure every rifle is in skil
September 21, 2006 - Forty-five recruiters from the Defense Department and other federal agencies, as well as from private-sector companies, set up shop at the Sam Houston Club to entice wounded warriors and their families with job offers.
September 18, 2006 - The National Guard’s domestic equipment levels must be significantly improved, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said. The general used the analogy of a small-town fire department that needs people, training and equipment to fight fires.
September 13, 2006 - About 50 authors, including current and former servicemen and women, gathered in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building last evening to sign copies of a 377-page book of their observations and experiences in the global war on terrorism.
September 11, 2006 - Tears flowed freely under the gray sky as family members of those killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, gathered outside the Pentagon today to honor the memory of their loved ones.
September 11, 2006 - For those hours from when they first assembled on the National Mall until they concluded their two-mile Freedom Walk at a grandstand near the Pentagon crash site, the participants shared a common focus and sense of commitment.
September 10, 2006 - During the week leading up to the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Coalition troops and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad continued their efforts to secure the capital city as part of Operation Together Forward.
September 10, 2006 - For only the second time, Pentagon officials allowed the general public access to the building’s memorial to the 184 people killed when American Airlines flight 77 hit the building.
September 09, 2006 - President Bush wants Congress to approve military commissions to try suspected terrorist leaders in U.S. custody. The president and opposition Democrats are both addressing national security ahead of Monday's fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
September 07, 2006 - The U.S. military says 14 suspected terrorists who have been transferred to the controversial detention ceneter in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba early this week are being treated according to international standards, and new guidelines.
September 05, 2006 - President Bush is defending his handling of the war on terror as the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States rapidly approaches.
September 05, 2006 - Commentary: The attacks of September 11, 2001, have shaped my view of America’s Soldiers. My father, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Carnell Draughn Sr., served 30 years in the Army.
September 04, 2006 - While Iraqi and Coalition forces continued operations throughout Baghdad and discussed progress in the city’s northern neighborhood of Adhamiyah, Iraqi National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie announced Sunday the capture of a top al-Qaida leader.
September 04, 2006 - A suicide bombing and friendly fire incident have killed at least three NATO soldiers and four civilians in Afghanistan. One Canadian soldier was killed and several others seriously wounded after NATO aircraft accidentally fired on their own forces.
September 04, 2006 - Earlier this month, the U.S. military deployed several thousand extra combat troops to flashpoint districts in the troubled Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
September 03, 2006 - The American flag was lowered in a brief ceremony and passed to Army Lt. Col. Stephen Quinn, the 44-year-old battalion commander of 3rd Battalion, 321 Field Artillery Regiment from Virginia Beach, Va., and the outgoing commander of Abu Ghraib security.
September 02, 2006 - President Bush wants to convince more Americans that the war in Iraq is central to preventing another terrorist attack inside the United States. Opposition Democrats say the president should pay more attention to strengthening America's defenses.
August 31, 2006 - Officials from the Defense Department and military services got together here yesterday for the first 'From Deployment to Employment' conference to discuss ways to better serve America’s severely injured servicemembers.
August 24, 2006 - Some Middle East analysts are expressing doubts that the international peacekeeping force will be able to succeed in its mission. Earlier this month the U.N. Security Council approved resolution 1701 that led to the current ceasefire.
August 24, 2006 - In separate operations this week throughout Iraq, Iraqi and U.S. forces stopped a terrorist attack against a police station, captured five suspected terrorists, and disarmed seven improvised explosive devices, U.S. military officials reported.
August 24, 2006 - Marines here expressed little surprise over plans to recall members of the Marine Corps’ Individual Ready Reserve to active duty, acknowledging that regardless of whether people think it’s fair, it’s part of the commitment those reservists signed on for.
August 23, 2006 - President Bush has authorized the Marine Corps to call up Marines from the service’s Individual Ready Reserve, which may mean a return to duty for some recently discharged veterans.
August 23, 2006 - A senior U.S. military spokesman says Iranian forces have infiltrated Iraq to provide training, money and equipment to Shi'ite extremists and fuel their insurgency.
August 22, 2006 - A senior U.S. military commander says the level of violence in Baghdad has fallen during August and that U.S.-led and Iraqi forces captured more than 100 known and suspected al-Qaida terrorists this week.
August 22, 2006 - Hollywood Boulevard may be better known for its glitzy Walk of Fame and seedy nightlife than as a place to recruit servicemembers, but the Armed Forced Career Center here is signing up recruits aplenty.
August 21, 2006 - Amid national debate about whether or not to stay the course in Iraq, President Bush today firmly placed himself in thestay category.
August 20, 2006 - The second mass murder trial of Saddam Hussein is set to open this week in Baghdad. The former Iraqi dictator will go on trial along with six of the top ranking members of his former regime.
August 17, 2006 - U.S. European Command will assume command of U.S. military forces operating off the coast of Lebanon and in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
August 16, 2006 - The government promises that servicemembers’ jobs will still be theirs when they come home and that they cannot be discriminated against by their employers because of their military service.
August 13, 2006 - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says his top priority, following the uncovering of an airplane terror plot in Britain, is to learn if the plotters have any links to people in the United States.
August 10, 2006 - With the war in Lebanon entering it fifth week, some Middle East specialists and former policymakers are calling for the U.S. administration to talk with Syria about reining in Hezbollah.
August 09, 2006 - U.S. forces in Iraq have arrested several Iraqis suspected of involvement in the Jan. 7 abduction of an American journalist. Jill Carroll was kidnapped in western Baghdad. She was released unharmed March 30.
August 08, 2006 - The head of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq says the multibillion-dollar effort is moving forward, despite challenges posed by security problems and a lack of construction supplies and qualified work crews.
August 08, 2006 - The portable, lightweight ventilation system will help reduce heat-related injuries, and will undergo one of year assessments by such Soldiers as drivers, military police and machine gunners.
August 06, 2006 - Coalition forces conducted raids today and yesterday in two areas of Iraq, seized a large weapons cache and captured four terrorists Aug. 4, and detained three terrorists Aug. 3.
August 01, 2006 - A senior U.S. military officer directly involved in training Iraq's army says in spite of notable progress it will likely take years before the new security forces can control the country on their own.
August 01, 2006 - Organizers expect 5,000 people top participate in the Aurora, Colo., Freedom Walk event Sept. 9. Freedom Walks around the country will commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and honor American servicemembers.
July 28, 2006 - The top U.S. general in Iraq had hoped to be able to recommend what he called a fairly significant reduction in U.S. troops in the country this year. Instead, Donald Rumsfeld approved the general's request for 3,500 more troops.
July 26, 2006 - The Israeli assault in Lebanon has prompted varying degrees of praise and criticism of Hezbollah throughout the Middle East.
July 26, 2006 - For the past 60 years, the Guide Dog Foundation has provided service dogs free of charge to help people with visual impairments become more mobile and independent.
July 23, 2006 - Three severely wounded soldiers recovering in the Washington area got "a dream come true," as Washington's Major League Baseball team honored them and military members everywhere July 21.
July 21, 2006 - Two-thirds of U.S. troops serving in Iraq say they believe the cause they're fighting for is worthwhile, according to a new Stars and Stripes survey.
July 19, 2006 - Sixty-five years after the Defense Department launched a program to train the first black military pilots and aircrews, veterans of the Tuskegee Airmen say they're proud of the barriers they helped break down and the example they set.
July 16, 2006 - Secretary Rice says Iran and Syria are backing terrorists and militants against Israel, as part of a larger campaign against the spread of democracy in the region. Rice spoke on CBS's Face the Nation program.
July 12, 2006 - The television series is filming its 100th episode on Third Army’s Digital Video and Imagery Distribution mission and how Third Army Public Affairs tells service members’ stories around the world.
July 05, 2006 - The new al Qaeda in Iraq leader is an explosives expert who could opt to increase insurgent attacks using car and truck bombs, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad.
July 04, 2006 - President Bush promised the nation's men and women in uniform he would not allow "the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done."
July 02, 2006 - Iraqi officials have released a list of the country's 41 "most wanted" fugitives that includes former President Saddam Hussein's first wife and his eldest daughter.
June 30, 2006 - More than 1,000 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard were involved in water rescues, evacuations and other emergency operations during the past days as widespread flooding caused a disaster emergency to be declared in 46 of the state's 67 counties.
June 27, 2006 - he U.S. military is conducting an aggressive investigation to find those responsible for the deaths this month of three U.S. soldiers - one of whom died in an initial attack on the checkpoint the soldiers were manning.
June 27, 2006 - The highest priority in funding the global war on terror is to ensure that the military members fighting it have all they need to win, a senior defense official said. The bulk of the expenditure, $210 billion, has funded Operation Iraqi Freedom.
June 22, 2006 - Military officials have positively identified two bodies discovered June 18 as those of two 101st Airborne Division soldiers kidnapped at gunpoint two days earlier by masked gunmen in Iraq.
June 22, 2006 - The U.S. Senate is expected to vote as early as Thursday on two Democrat-sponsored proposals calling for U.S. troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq later this year. The Republican-led chamber is expected to reject both.
June 21, 2006 - Seven Marines and a sailor were charged today with kidnapping, murder and conspiracy in connection with the death of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania, Iraq, in late April.
June 20, 2006 - And the Iraqi security forces continue to flex their muscles in and around Baghdad. Operation Together Forward continues in the city. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's security crackdown is having its effect.
June 20, 2006 - The U.S. military in Iraq says coalition forces have recovered the bodies of two American soldiers missing since an attack on their checkpoint Friday.
June 20, 2006 - Japan will soon withdraw its ground troops from Iraq, saying its humanitarian mission there has been successful.
June 20, 2006 - The U.S. Senate has expressed its objection to any amnesty granted by the Iraqi government to Iraqis who kill U.S. troops. The non-binding vote came as senators consider how soon American soldiers should leave Iraq.
June 19, 2006 - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers and police are involved in an intense search for two American soldiers that an insurgent group claims to have abducted.
June 17, 2006 - Coalition and Iraqi officials have launched a massive search operation for two coalition soldiers missing following an incident in Yusufiyah, Iraq.
June 16, 2006 - About three-quarters of the $94 billion emergency funding bill President Bush signed yesterday is allocated for fighting the war on global terrorism, including more than $40 billion for ongoing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
June 16, 2006 - The House of Representatives is engaged in a marathon debate on Iraq, with Democrats and Republicans facing off over how to support the Iraqi government and fight global terrorism.
June 16, 2006 - By a vote of 256-153, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a resolution declaring that the United States will prevail in Iraq and the global war on terrorism.
June 09, 2006 - Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the June 7 air strike but died from his wounds while laying on a stretcher shortly thereafter, a senior U.S. military officer in Baghdad said today.
June 04, 2006 - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says there will a full investigation into reports that American Marines last November indiscriminately shot and killed innocent civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha.
June 02, 2006 - All U.S. troops in Iraq will get a two-to-four hour refresher course in battlefield ethics over the next 30 days. The training was ordered following allegations that soldiers or Marines killed unarmed civilians.
May 31, 2006 - Iraqi and coalition forces captured eight terrorist leaders in recent operations in Baghdad neighborhoods. Also, the Iraqi-led Combined Review and Release Board released more than 200 detainees.
May 21, 2006 - The event, initiated by the White House Commission on Remembrance, was designed to remember America's heroes, military and civilian, who have lost their lives in defense of the nation's freedom.
May 19, 2006 - The spotlight will be on 14 National Guard members and spouses whose lives have been profoundly affected by the war on terrorism when the Guard is honored in Washington Memorial Day weekend.
May 10, 2006 - Militant groups have long used terrorist tactics to achieve political goals. But new groups have emerged whose aims are as much religious as political.
May 09, 2006 - He was only 6 years old when he saw a dead Soldier lying in the street holding a rifle up in the air. He couldn’t tell whether the man was American or Vietnamese because the body was burned.
May 09, 2006 - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has welcomed indications by Iraq's new leader that he is close to forming a national unity government, but said he is still not ready to recommend any reduction in U.S. forces in the country.
May 05, 2006 - More than 14,000 people were killed last year in terrorist attacks around the world, according to the U.S. State Department’s annual terrorism report. About 80 % of the casualties were in the Near East and South Asia.
May 05, 2006 - Defense contractors said they were continuously amazed at how terrorists are able to grab multimedia products or images off the Internet and repackage them to fit their own goals and objectives.
April 26, 2006 - A U.S. Army lieutenant colonel is expected to be charged soon in connection with the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Reports say Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan will become the highest-ranking officer to be charged in the case.
April 26, 2006 - Terrorist supporters funnel money through charities and international criminal gangs constantly adapt their techniques, while law enforcement agencies try to stay one step ahead.
April 22, 2006 - The Army says 83 soldiers on active duty killed themselves in 2005, a rate of nearly 13 per 100,000. Of those solders, 25 had been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
April 20, 2006 - Some analysts say the political rise of Islamists, the inability of Iraqi factions to agree on a new government, and concerns about Iran's influence in the region may have taken the pressure off Middle Eastern rulers to institute democratic reforms.
April 17, 2006 - President Bush has rejected calls from a group of retired generals for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for alleged mismanagement of the war in Iraq.
April 09, 2006 - A leading Congressional Republican says President Bush and Vice-President Cheney should talk to the American people about their involvement in the disclosure of intelligence information on Iraq.
April 09, 2006 - The U.S. Ambassador to Iraq says a complete pullout of American troops from the country before the end of this year is unrealistic.
April 05, 2006 - More than 350 severely wounded troops and disabled veterans are conquering emotional as well as physical mountains at the 20th National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.
April 04, 2006 - Freed American hostage Jill Carroll, who has left Frankfurt, Germany for the United States Sunday after nearly three months in captivity by Iraqi insurgents, says her captors forced her to make a propaganda video praising the insurgency to gain her releas
March 29, 2006 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called on Russia to conduct a "serious investigation" into an allegation that Russian officials provided intelligence on U.S. military plans to Iraqi leaders in the early weeks of the war in 2003.
March 28, 2006 - Russia's foreign minister dismissed on Monday -- as politically motivated -- reports his country provided intelligence to Saddam Hussein at the start of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
March 22, 2006 - Sergeant Michael Smith's lawyer said he was doing what he was ordered to do, and that other soldiers had allowed their dogs to go even farther in threatening detainees, including allowing some dogs to actually bite detainees.
March 20, 2006 - President Bush marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Monday with a pledge that U.S. troops will stay there until Iraq's new security forces can protect the country's fledgling democracy.
March 20, 2006 - In the past week, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained more than five dozen suspected insurgents in Iraq, U.S. military officials reported.
March 17, 2006 - A Pacolet Mills, S.C., native was honored in a ceremony March 14 for his actions against enemy forces during combat operations in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar. First Lt. Jeffery T. Lee was awarded the Silver Star Medal for his actions.
March 14, 2006 - Funding and public opinion are two major challenges the United States faces in fighting the global war on terrorism.
March 13, 2006 - A high-tech Defense Department identification system has linked some captured terrorists to previous crimes and prevented their release from overseas detention facilities.
March 10, 2006 - A non-governmental organization that analyzes international conflict zones, says insurgents in Iraq are finding better ways to communicate and are gaining confidence in their ability to fight against U.S.-led coalition forces.
March 07, 2006 - U.S. officials have long accused Iran of allowing insurgents and their supporters to cross its border with Iraq. And some media reports have indicated that Iran is sending in specially trained soldiers.
March 05, 2006 - Despite the latest violence in Iraq, America's top military officer gave an upbeat assessment of progress in the country. The general discussed the Iraqi situation on NBC's Meet the Press program.
March 01, 2006 - About one-third of U.S. military personnel returning from the war in Iraq use mental health services after their return home, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
March 01, 2006 - The survey by the well-known Zogby International polling company says 72 percent of the U.S. troops in Iraq believe all U.S. forces should be withdrawn within 12 months.
February 26, 2006 - A mortar attack in southern Baghdad has killed at least 15 people and left dozens of others wounded, while a roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in another sector of the Iraqi capital.
February 24, 2006 - More than 130 Iraqis, most of them Sunni Muslims, have been killed in two days of sectarian violence following the bombing Wednesday of a Shi'ite Muslim shrine.
February 22, 2006 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says America's armed forces have become more agile and more capable, but the wars the U.S. is fighting cannot be won only by using military force.
February 21, 2006 - The U.S. attorney general called today's indictment of three Ohio men who conspired to kill U.S. citizens overseas, particularly military forces in Iraq, another indication that the United States must remain vigilant in fighting terrorism.
February 17, 2006 - President Bush submitted a request to Congress yesterday for $72.4 billion in supplemental funding to tackle the global war on terror and other ongoing international activities for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
February 10, 2006 - A partnership that enables military members and their families to file their tax returns electronically without charge is proving tremendously popular, with 103,000 returns already filed as of Feb. 7.
February 10, 2006 - President Bush continued his push this week to rally domestic support for the U.S.-led effort in Iraq and the overall war on terrorism. But with congressional elections looming in November, opposition Democrats are not backing away.
February 05, 2006 - The Iraqi Army has been billed as the U.S. Army's ticket home. As part of the 11-point-five billion dollar effort to build up the new Iraqi Army, the U.S. Military is embedding small teams of American soldiers into Iraqi units to help them develop.
February 05, 2006 - The U.S. Defense Department has called for changes to its structure and capabilities to make the U.S. military more effective at facing the challenges of the 21st century.
February 02, 2006 - For most of January, the casualty rate in Iraq was at the lowest rate since the spring of 2004, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said in a briefing from Baghdad.
February 02, 2006 - The Army and Marine Corps are pulling out all the stops to ensure deployed troops have the best body armor possible, including ceramic side plates to protect their torsos.
January 29, 2006 - President Bush is putting the finishing touches on his 2006 State of the Union Address. He will deliver the speech Tuesday night to Congress and the nation.
January 23, 2006 - Israel is threatening to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear program. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has hinted that Israel is preparing for military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.
January 20, 2006 - Man's best friend has contributed to U.S. war efforts for many years, so it is only fitting to have an official war dog memorial to honor the service of these canine companions.
January 18, 2006 - Gunmen killed 10 guards and kidnapped an African engineer in an attack on a private security convoy in Baghdad, Wednesday. The kidnapping comes less than one day after the abductors threatened to kill kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll.
January 16, 2006 - A suspected suicide bomb blast Monday evening killed at least 20 people and injured more than 30 others in an Afghan border town. It was the third suicide attack in two days.
January 13, 2006 - Soldiers may now file claims and receive reimbursement for protective equipment privately purchased between Sept. 11, 2001, and July 31, 2004.
January 12, 2006 - U.S. military members serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other dangerous locales will soon receive revamped armored vests that provide more side protection.
January 11, 2006 - Though the number of mobilized reserve component servicemembers is on the decline 50,000 less than a year ago the unprecedented and extended reliance on these forces brings to the forefront a number of issues.
January 10, 2006 - The Army will continue to improve body armor issued to soldiers, and will begin manufacturing side-panel inserts to the Interceptor ballistic armor. The 3 pound side panels will be made of the same material as the small-arms protective inserts.
January 09, 2006 - President Bush ushered in an across-the-board 3.1 percent military pay raise, effective Jan. 1, and a variety of other new or enhanced benefits for servicemembers and their families when he signed the 2006 National Defense Authorization Bill into law.
January 09, 2006 - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in Washington Monday his government has no plans for an early troop withdrawal from Iraq despite mounting domestic criticism.
January 03, 2006 - Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building.
December 30, 2005 - As is usual at this time of year, most news organizations take a look back at what made news in the year just ended. The Army News Service is no different. So what made news for the Army in 2005? Three words: war, hurricanes and elections. Almost.
December 23, 2005 - In the past few weeks, President Bush has given several speeches and a news conference trying to shore up support for the Iraq war.
December 22, 2005 - The U.S. Congress approved a $453.5 billion 2006 defense budget December 22 that includes a measure outlawing the use of torture, or cruel and inhuman treatment of detainees being held by the U.S. military and civilian federal agencies such as the CIA.
December 22, 2005 - A senior U.S. military officer says the number of insurgent attacks in Iraq is down since last week's election, and he believes the Iraqi people have reached what he calls the saturation point of their willingness to tolerate such attacks.
December 20, 2005 - About 500 liquid-filled cooling vests are now being tested by Humvee crews in Iraq and Kuwait. The vests are worn under body armor and a hose from each vest is plugged into the Humvee’s on-board air-conditioning system.
December 19, 2005 - The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks showed that the United States could no longer ignore the threat of global terrorism and that America must go on the attack, President Bush said during a nationally televised address Dec. 18.
December 18, 2005 - President Bush says Thursday's election in Iraq was historic and strengthened an ally in the war on terror. At the same time, though, he warns against a hasty U.S. pullout, suggesting there would be harsh consequences.
December 15, 2005 - Many Iraqis began lining up at polling stations to vote well before the 7 a.m. opening of the Dec. 15 national elections. Election turnout throughout Iraq is expected to be high as voting continues throughout the day.
December 15, 2005 - n 1957, Jack Taylor, a decorated World War II fighter pilot, founded a car rental company and named it after the USS Enterprise, one of the carriers off which he flew.
December 15, 2005 - A program designed to help wounded veterans find meaningful civilian jobs is paying off by enabling some to use their military expertise to ensure their former comrades are getting the quality weaponry they need in combat.
December 14, 2005 - President Bush Wednesday delivers the last in a series of speeches about his strategy for success in Iraq ahead of Thursday's elections for a new Iraqi assembly.
December 14, 2005 - Task Force Baghdad soldiers detained 43 suspected terrorists during recent operations conducted to ensure a safe environment for Iraq's upcoming national elections.
December 12, 2005 - A satellite-based communications systems for combat vehicles is now being evaluated by the Battle Command. Lighter, smaller, mobile and more efficient are the waves of future battlefield communications.
December 10, 2005 - A group that began in a Marine Corps wife's basement when her husband deployed to Iraq is in the midst of sending thousands of care packages to deployed troops for Christmas.
December 06, 2005 - Following a day of testimony from three witnesses who said they were abused and tortured by Saddam's agents, the former Iraqi dictator exploded in anger when judges announced the court would hear two more prosecution witnesses on Wednesday.
December 05, 2005 - The independent commission that investigated the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States has issued a new report highly critical of the Bush administration and Congress for their efforts to make the country safer from future attacks.
December 05, 2005 - An angry and defiant Saddam Hussein appeared in court in Baghdad Monday, proclaiming his innocence and daring the judges to sentence him to death. The eight hour court session got off to a chaotic start.
December 05, 2005 - Despite reported histrionics displayed today by Saddam Hussein and others during his court appearance in Baghdad, the trial goes on.
December 03, 2005 - Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, found two Iraqi civilians bound and gagged in the trunk of a white sedan.
December 02, 2005 - As company commander, Rapicault led his Marines through 50 firefights and 27 improvised explosive device ambushes between the time he took command of the unit and until he was killed Nov. 15, 2004.
November 30, 2005 - Victory in Iraq will require the strength and courage of U.S. servicemembers, who by fighting terrorists in Iraq are defeating a direct threat to the American people, President Bush said today at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
November 30, 2005 - As Iraq's security forces gain capability and take on more and tougher missions, they're winning the confidence of the Iraqi people and setting the stage for coalition forces to stand down, President Bush said today in Annapolis, Md.
November 29, 2005 - President Bush is expected to discuss his Iraq strategy in a major speech Wednesday at the U.S. Naval Academy near Washington. The president will focus on the process of training Iraqis to take over from U.S. and coalition forces.
November 28, 2005 - National Guard leaders were welcomed to a distant land with a distinctive greeting during the week before Thanksgiving. Shalom. A 25-member delegation visited Israel to forge a new relationship with that country’s Home Front Command.
November 28, 2005 - The trial for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resumed briefly today, but an Iraqi judge granted another delay to give the defense team more time to prepare
November 27, 2005 - Iraq's national security adviser is predicting a drawdown of U.S. troops serving in his country over the next year.
November 24, 2005 - U.S. soldiers stationed at Forward Operating Base Yusifiyah had only one wish for this Thanksgiving: A day with no military or civilian casualties from roadside bombings or mortar or rocket attacks anywhere in their area. But it was not to be.
November 21, 2005 - Iraqi delegates attending an Arab League-sponsored reconciliation conference in Cairo say they have agreed to reconvene in late February or early March to decide on a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq.
November 21, 2005 - Iraqi Army and U.S. Army forces have made significant terrorist arrests, uncovered IED munitions and saved the lives of six Iraqi civilians attacked by terrorists in separate incidents.
November 20, 2005 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says military considerations on the ground - and not politics in Washington - will determine the pace of any U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq.
November 17, 2005 - Southern Iraq, which suffered a great deal under Saddam Hussein and rejoiced at his fall two years ago, has been relatively peaceful. This is in contrast to Baghdad and central parts of Iraq which are dominated by Sunni Arabs.
November 16, 2005 - U.S. Air Force F-15s, F-16s and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles made air strikes against insurgent fighters near the Iraq-Syria border Nov. 14 in support of Operation Steel Curtain.
November 14, 2005 - America faces a dangerous enemy in the radical terrorists who are fighting democracy in the Middle East, and the only strategy to win is to remain on the offensive and to accept nothing less than total victory, President Bush said today.
November 12, 2005 - Five women, one from each service, including the Coast Guard, told an overflow audience here at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial's theater what being a veteran means to them during a special Veterans Day observance.
November 10, 2005 - November 11 is Veteran's Day in the United States, when Americans honor all those who have returned from service in their nation's military. Going to war is difficult under any circumstance. For veterans returning home, rejoining society as civilians pose
November 10, 2005 - The newest U.S. war veterans all have stories from their combat zone experience - some good, some bad. For Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans, the images and memories of their comrades are fresh in their minds on Veterans Day 2005.
November 08, 2005 - Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers are fighting alongside Marines near the Iraq-Syria border in Operation Steel Curtain, which began over the weekend. Thirty-six terrorists have been confirmed killed so far in the operation, near the town of Hasaybah.
November 08, 2005 - The U.N. Security Council has unanimously agreed to extend the mandate of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq through the end of 2006. The one-year extension was approved early to avoid any conflict with Iraq's December 15 elections.
November 07, 2005 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today announced the next major units to deploy to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He emphasized that rotation planning remains flexible and will be based on conditions on the ground.
November 03, 2005 - A senior U.S. general has welcomed the decision by Iraq's Minister of Defense to invite mid- and low-level former military officers, who served under Saddam Hussein, to join the country's fledgling new army.
November 03, 2005 - The December elections will mark another political milestone on Iraq's journey toward democracy. How the elections unfold, and how peaceful they are will help commanders determine the size of the American force in the country.
November 01, 2005 - An Article 32 investigation - the military justice system's equivalent of a grand jury proceeding - determined that reasonable grounds exist to try Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez on two counts of premeditated murder.
October 31, 2005 - Four U.S. soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were killed today when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Yusufiyah district. Another roadside bomb killed two 29th Brigade Combat Team soldiers while they were on a patrol.
October 29, 2005 - President Bush has used his weekly radio address to hail Iraq's passage of a new constitution while warning that more sacrifice will be required from U.S. and coalition troops.
October 26, 2005 - The White House is criticizing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of Israel.
October 25, 2005 - The U.S. military death toll in Iraq officially reached two thousand on Tuesday, with the announcement of the death of a soldier who was injured last week.
October 25, 2005 - A majority of Iraq's citizens have approved their country's new constitution, an event the top U.S. diplomat called a remarkable story.
October 22, 2005 - The military continues preparations for the predicted Monday Florida landfall of Hurricane Wilma.
October 20, 2005 - Master Sgt. Robert Collins, Sgt. 1st Class Danny Hall and retired 1st Sgt. Cornelius Clark were recognized with the military’s third highest valor award for their gallantry under enemy fire: Collins and Hall for their actions in Iraq this year.
October 20, 2005 - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration has a strategy to assure victory in Iraq - but is refusing to say when U.S. troops can begin to be brought home.
October 17, 2005 - The Fisher House organization uses more than a million frequent flyer miles per week in distributing free round-trip airline tickets to families of war-wounded servicemembers being treated in military and Veterans Affairs medical facilities.
October 16, 2005 - Critics of the Iraq War allege that there was no connection between Iraq and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice maintains the attack and actions in Iraq are linked.
October 12, 2005 - The Army was about 6,600 recruits shy of meeting its active duty enlisted recruiting goal for fiscal 2005, but a revamped recruiting system is causing the numbers to go back up.
October 05, 2005 - The State Department Wednesday expressed concern about the role of the Iranian military in the country's nuclear efforts. An Iranian exile group charged this week that that Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has put the military in firm control of the program.
October 05, 2005 - On the eve of a speech President Bush plans to deliver on the war against terrorism, Senate Democrats sent the White House a letter calling on Mr. Bush to use his address to detail his plans in Iraq.
October 04, 2005 - The American Security Council Foundation recently launched "Project Freedom" to highlight the accomplishments being made by American servicemembers in the war on terror.
October 04, 2005 - Iraqi troops assigned to a public-order brigade and U.S. Army soldiers fought off more than 40 insurgents in southern Baghdad this morning.
September 30, 2005 - The U.S. military has a lot to do and spends a lot of money doing it. For the major defense contractors, simulation training and support is not just big business – it is a huge business.
September 29, 2005 - The commanding general of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq is backing off of a prediction he made two months ago that a substantial number of U.S. forces could be withdrawn from Iraq next year.
September 28, 2005 - A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, who has covered Iraq since before the conflict began, says insurgents realize they cannot defeat the U.S.-led military coalition on the battlefield.
September 28, 2005 - The U.S. military in Iraq is increasingly concerned about roadside bombs that are taking a greater toll on U.S. troops than at any time since dictator Saddam Hussein was toppled in April, 2003.
September 21, 2005 - There are a number of professionals in Iraq today who are qualified to answer the question: Is Iraq another Vietnam? They are men who served in Vietnam and are now helping rebuild Iraq.
September 16, 2005 - The acting deputy defense secretary today reaffirmed the nation's commitment to fully account for all the nation's prisoners of war and servicemembers missing in action.
September 15, 2005 - The first and the deadliest of the six car bombings which shook Baghdad throughout the day, targeted an Iraqi police station in the south Baghdad neighborhood of Doura. At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed and 15 civilians wounded in the blast.
September 10, 2005 - National Guard soldiers have a presence on the streets of Mississippi. They are here to deter looting, keep sightseers from disrupting recovery and repair work, keep vehicular traffic flowing safely and to provide an extra set of eyes and ears.
September 10, 2005 - For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Pentagon allowed the public to view the 9/11 memorial site on September 10, 2005.
September 09, 2005 - As the humvee tooled along at about 20 mph through Al Iskandariyah, an agricultural town 30 miles south of Baghdad, a rocket-propelled grenade blasted the driver's side, burning Carranza's body armor and damaging the vehicle's instrument panel.
September 08, 2005 - The approaching anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States give Americans cause to think about things that happened before, during and after that day.
September 06, 2005 - A leading independent policy analysis group in London says Iran faces technical difficulties in producing nuclear weapons, which could take up to 10 to 15 years to overcome.
September 04, 2005 - The Iraqi government says former dictator Saddam Hussein and several of his closest aides will face trial next month, right after the country holds a national referendum on the new constitution.
September 04, 2005 - Nearly 30,000 National Guard troops from across America left their families and their civilian jobs during the week after Hurricane Katrina became the biggest national calamity since terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
August 29, 2005 - Guard members along the Gulf Coast are performing a variety of missions, from providing security at the emergency shelter at the New Orleans Superdome, where thousands of local residents are seeing refuge from Hurricane Katrina, to emergency assistance.
August 28, 2005 - Iraq's president says the country's new constitution is ready to be voted on by the Iraqi people. The final draft was presented to parliament Sunday, but has been rejected by almost all of the Sunni Arab representatives on the committee that drafted it.
August 28, 2005 - President Bush is urging Iraqis to embrace the constitutional process, now that a final draft of the charter has been presented to parliament. At the same time, the president acknowledges opposition within the Sunni Arab community.
August 25, 2005 - The Defense Department announced its plan August 24 to deploy additional U.S. military forces to Iraq on a temporary basis to increase security in advance of Iraqi elections.
August 24, 2005 - The Base Realignment and Closure Commission generally supported the Defense Department's recommendations today as the panel began its final four days of deliberations.
August 22, 2005 - With more than 250,000 American troops deployed in nearly 130 countries, many analysts are questioning whether the United States military is stretched in ways that could undermine its future capabilities should new threats arise.
August 22, 2005 - U.S. servicemembers are fighting and sacrificing in Iraq because that country "is a central front in the war on terror," President Bush told Veterans of Foreign War members gathered in Salt Lake City today.
August 17, 2005 - Once used only for remote reconnaissance, unmanned aircraft technology has rapidly evolved in recent years. Such systems now feature strike capabilities and are being used for force-protection and signals-collection missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
August 14, 2005 - Rebecca Campbell started the Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund in 2003 to raise college tuition for the children of servicemembers killed in the war on terrorism.
August 14, 2005 - Zubair was a known member of al Qaeda in Iraq and a lieutenant in the operations of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Mosul. When Zubair was killed, he was wearing a suicide device consisting of an explosive pack across his stomach armed with pellets.
August 09, 2005 - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has criticized the Iranian government, saying it is not stopping the flow of weapons across its border into Iraq. The criticism follows recent reports that Iraqi border guards intercepted shipments of bombs from Iran.
August 09, 2005 - A new Army National Guard program is helping attract young people with native language skills and cultural expertise into the military to support the global war on terror.
August 09, 2005 - Through partnerships with most major U.S. carriers, the Fisher House Foundation is making it possible for Americans to donate unused airline miles to troops wounded in the war on terror and their families.
August 03, 2005 - Marine Corps officials in Iraq issued an emotionally worded statement today as they investigate whether a body in a video and photographs circulating in the region are of a Marine killed in action this week.
August 03, 2005 - A new survey focuses on the evolution of U.S. public opinion on foreign policy. The survey, called the Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index, finds Americans anxious about U.S. relations with the Muslim world.
August 01, 2005 - As the Japanese observe the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Tokyo’s subsequent surrender to the allies, they are discussing political changes that were unthinkable just a few years ago.
July 31, 2005 - Five Task Force Baghdad soldiers were killed July 30 during two separate bomb attacks while they were conducting during patrols in Baghdad neighborhoods, Multinational Force Iraq officials announced.
July 27, 2005 - The commanding general of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq says there could be a significant reduction in the number of U.S. troops in the country by this time next year, if the political process remains on track.
July 27, 2005 - A fairly substantial withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could take place next spring or summer if the insurgency doesn't grow.
July 27, 2005 - The Defense Department is again sending letters to thousands of Gulf War veterans exposed to low levels of chemical agents contained in munitions destroyed at a weapons depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq, in March 1991.
July 27, 2005 - The Army announced its plans for repositioning its forces to accommodate a new modular structure, which includes transferring more than 50,000 soldiers to the United States by the decade's end.
July 25, 2005 - Three different groups have claimed responsibility for the bombings last week at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Authorities in Cairo and London are wondering whether the bombings in Egypt and the recent attacks in London might be linked.
July 21, 2005 - London police are investigating four small explosions on London's subway and bus system that wounded one person. The blasts come exactly two weeks after suicide terrorist bombs killed 56 people on the city's transport network.
July 13, 2005 - A Task Force Baghdad soldier and several Iraq children were killed today during a car-bomb attack in east Baghdad. According to Task Force Baghdad soldiers at the site, a vehicle laden with explosives drove up to a Humvee and detonated.
July 09, 2005 - On the morning of July 7, several bombs exploded, targeting London subway trains and a double-decker bus, according to news sources. The number of deaths has reached at least 49, but officials warn that the number could grow.
July 05, 2005 - One man was killed and three others detained after they were caught trying to plant improvised explosive devices in northern Iraq July 4, military officials in Baghdad reported.
July 04, 2005 - U.S. military forces spent the Fourth of July holiday weekend hunting down insurgents and stopping deadly bombs attacks throughout Iraq, military officials Baghdad reported.
July 03, 2005 - In another blow to Iraqi efforts to restore international confidence in the struggling country, gunmen in Iraq have kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat, widely expected to be the country's first Arab ambassador since the Iraqi interim government was formed.
June 30, 2005 - The U.N. Compensation Commission that oversees the 1991 Gulf War reparations, has awarded more than $360 million for claims of losses by thousands of individuals and environmental claims by six governments.
June 30, 2005 - In the past three months, Iraq has witnessed some of the worst violence since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein in April, 2003. Car bombings have killed nearly 600 people and wounded 1,700 more.
June 30, 2005 - Insurgents in Iraq are increasingly employing suicide bombers and roadside explosives and not engaging U.S. and coalition forces in stand-up battles like the one at Fallujah last fall, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad today.
June 27, 2005 - The House Armed Services Committee approved a bill recently which puts a Pentagon policy from 1994 into federal law prohibiting females in the military to serve in units below brigade level whose primary mission is direct ground combat.
June 24, 2005 - There will not be any timetables to schedule the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Bush said at a White House news conference.
June 24, 2005 - When I came home from Iraq a couple of months ago, I kept the promise I made while I was still there: I wouldn't watch the news, and I'd step away from the war, ignoring the events that had consumed my life 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
June 24, 2005 - Insurgents in Iraq continue to attack coalition forces and Iraqi security -- and they are using more sophisticated tactics.
June 24, 2005 - The United States began to set out its vision of United Nations reform June 22 by outlining its highest priorities before the General Assembly.
June 21, 2005 - The Marine Corps is adapting the way it protects its servicemembers against improvised explosive devices. The measures used when Marines returned to Iraq in March 2004 to protect them from IEDs simply are no longer sufficient.
June 19, 2005 - Marines and Iraqi security forces continue Operation Spear, called Rohme in Arabic, in Iraq's Anbar province, finding weapons caches and calling in air strikes on terrorist strong points.
June 19, 2005 - Iraqi soldiers and coalition forces, working together and independently, captured 11 known terrorists in a series of early-morning raids in central and western Baghdad.
June 17, 2005 - Held hostage by terrorists for six weeks, Australian Douglas Wood was rescued by Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Iraqi Army Brigade, while conducting cordon-and-search missions to locate and destroy terrorist cells in the Al Adel neighborhood of Baghdad.
June 17, 2005 - A top Army general this week thanked more than 270 family members of servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia for their service and sacrifice during the Defense Department's 2005 annual government briefings for Vietnam War-era families.
June 16, 2005 - For the first time since World War II, a woman soldier was awarded the Silver Star Medal for her actions during an enemy ambush.
June 14, 2005 - A U.N.-appointed commission is urgently reviewing fresh information that raises new questions about Secretary-General Kofi Annan's role in awarding lucrative contracts under the oil-for-food program.
June 13, 2005 - The riders of Soldier Ride 2005 intend to trek 4,200 miles from Marina Del Ray, Calif., to Montauk, N.Y., on the eastern tip of Long Island to raise money for injured servicemembers.
June 13, 2005 - Criticism of U.S. military policy is often viewed as anti-American, hostile to soldiers, and most likely a veiled argument for disarmament, isolationism or pacifism, says author Andrew Bacevich.
June 11, 2005 - A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the embassy of Slovakia, in another day of violence in the Iraqi capital. No one was killed. Separately, a suicide bomber failed in his attempt to assassinate the head of the Iraqi police's elite Wolf Brigade.
June 11, 2005 - More than 600 suspected terrorists have been detained in Baghdad area operations led by the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, since May 20.
June 10, 2005 - The Army hopes to introduce new incentives to attract recruits while working to educate parents, teachers and other adults who influence young people's decision to enlist about the long-term benefits of military service.
June 08, 2005 - Government officials say international terrorist groups, such as al-Qaida, are determined to use biological agents against targets in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
June 06, 2005 - A nationwide project is under way to pay lasting tribute to fallen service members in their hometowns. The "Statues of Servicemen" campaign is an effort to immortalize every American service member killed in the war on terrorism.
June 06, 2005 - Veterans Affairs Department and Walter Reed Army Medical Center leaders took a step today toward helping severely injured servicemembers transition to civilian jobs.
June 06, 2005 - Coalition forces foiled eight planned attacks in Iraq this weekend, detained 116 suspected terrorists and killed three others even though additional insurgent attacks left six Iraqi civilians dead and one civilian injured.
June 05, 2005 - Saddam Hussein's upcoming trial is expected to help bolster the security situation in Iraq, and the sooner the proceedings begin, the better, Iraq's foreign minister said on CNN's Late Edition.
June 01, 2005 - In Iraq, Operation Lightning continues, but a suicide bomber slipped through the net and hit the main checkpoint into Baghdad International Airport. Iraqi security forces have reportedly arrested hundreds of insurgents in a city-wide sweep this week.
June 01, 2005 - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned countries near Iraq not to provide sanctuary or medical treatment to Iraq's al-Qaida leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is believed to have been wounded by coalition forces.
June 01, 2005 - WASHINGTON, June 1, 2005 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended U.S. military men and women accused of running a "gulag" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The secretary spoke during a Pentagon press conference today.
May 31, 2005 - At the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC, 79-year-old Lorraine Dieterle contemplates an exhibition of paint and pencil artworks called 'Faces of the Fallen.'
May 30, 2005 - America's top military leaders commemorated this Memorial Day by paying tribute to the tradition of wartime military service that has distinguished generations of Americans, past and present.
May 30, 2005 - Ever since it unveiled its proposal to save nearly $50 billion over the next 20 years by closing dozens of U.S. military facilities, the Pentagon has been busy defending its list of targeted bases.
May 30, 2005 - Iraqi officials say a double suicide bombing south of Baghdad has killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 100 others.
May 26, 2005 - Iraqi security officials have promised to seal off the capital next week in an aggressive operation to root out insurgents and halt the wave of car bombs that has plagued the country during the past month.v
May 25, 2005 - The U.S. military has confirmed the arrest of an aide to the al-Qaida chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, by Iraqi forces near the city of Baquba. The arrest was announced as the U.S. launched an operation in the western city of Haditha.
May 25, 2005 - Officials say 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops searched for insurgents in the western city of Haditha Wednesday following an upsurge in violence that killed 600 people across Iraq this month. U.S. officials say 10 suspected insurgents were killed.
May 25, 2005 - A major home-improvement chain is offering Memorial Day discounts to all active-duty and reserve-component troops, retired military personnel, veterans, and their families.
May 25, 2005 - The current state of affairs between Israelis and Palestinians is "a time of opportunity" that "has to be seized," says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
May 24, 2005 - The Bush administration Tuesday brushed aside a Syrian statement that it has severed military and intelligence cooperation with Washington because of what it says is an unfair U.S. media campaign against it.
May 24, 2005 - The Bush administration says the United Nations' assessment of Syria’s troop withdrawal from Lebanon cannot confirm that all of Syria’s intelligence services have also left the country, and that it will be watching Lebanon’s upcoming elections.
May 24, 2005 - hen wounded active-component soldiers get sent home from a deployment for medical care, they're generally treated directly at their home bases. Not so for their reserve-component counterparts.
May 24, 2005 - Military planners from 68 nations are gathered here today and May 25 for discussions on the current situation and the way ahead in the global war on terror.
May 23, 2005 - The U.S. House of Representatives is considering legislation to prohibit women in the military from serving in direct ground combat roles. The debate has put the spotlight on a controversial issue in American society.
May 23, 2005 - The Air National Guard strengthened its ranks in April as compared to March, though it remains slightly below its overall recruiting goal for the year.
May 22, 2005 - A debate is raging in the U.S. House of Representatives over a provision in a defense bill that would limit the role of women in direct ground combat. Should women in the U.S. military be allowed to serve in ground combat?
May 22, 2005 - Photos published by a British newspaper showing the jailed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein wearing just his underwear continue to draw mixed reactions from Iraqis.
May 22, 2005 - Faced with declining wartime enlistment numbers and charges of inappropriate or abusive recruitment practices, in an unusual move, the U.S. Army suspended its recruiting activities Friday (May 20) for one day.
May 20, 2005 - The family of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a soldier who died during the opening days of the Iraqi war, recently took ownership of a new $500,000 house north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that resulted from the effort.
May 19, 2005 - The American General who commands all U.S. forces in the Middle East says he can not confirm a statement by one of his subordinates that the recent increase in violence in Iraq resulted from a meeting of leading insurgents in Syria.
May 13, 2005 - A man who probably is best known as the Marine drill instructor from the movie "Full Metal Jacket" and as host of the History Channel's "Mail Call" program visited recovering troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
May 12, 2005 - President Bush signed into law on May 11 legislation that provides $82 billion in supplemental funding, most of it to help cover the cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 10, 2005 - Troops fighting in Iraq's northwestern Anbar province are facing a sizable and skilled insurgency, with some members seen fighting in military uniforms and protective vests.
May 09, 2005 - U.S. forces have launched an offensive in Iraq's al-Anbar province, and report killing dozens of insurgents. Three U.S. Marines have also been killed in the area.
May 07, 2005 - Ghassan Muhammad Amin Husayn al-Rawi was described as the amir, or leader, of Rawah, Iraq. He is accused of coordinating meetings for senior members, helping move and set up meetings for al-Zarqawi in the Rawah region, and helping move foreign fighters.
May 06, 2005 - A full lineup of commemorations is scheduled to kick off this weekend in observation of the 60th anniversary of V-E - for "Victory in Europe" - Day, the end of World War II there.
May 05, 2005 - Today's military is smaller than the Cold War force. It is already more agile and more flexible. And experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan show that joint operations enable the military to focus more power, more quickly exactly where it is needed.
May 05, 2005 - ask Force Liberty soldiers captured 22 insurgents suspected of launching an indirect fire attack on a coalition forces base near Bayji, Iraq, May 4.
May 05, 2005 - New 5-ton armored gun trucks fielded in Iraq are providing U.S. troops with effective protection against insurgents' improvised explosive devices and small-arms fire.
May 03, 2005 - Defense Department officials are working to thwart insurance and investment marketing practices that exploit military personnel.
May 02, 2005 - The violent attacks in Iraq have been largely blamed on terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. Among them is Ansar al-Islam, a shadowy group with roots in the northern Kurdish regions of Iraq. U.S officials believe Ansar al-Islam's attacks have killed hundreds.
May 01, 2005 - Army investigators have recommended that no disciplinary action be taken against U.S. soldiers in the March 4 killing of Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari, Multinational Force Iraq officials announced April 30.
April 26, 2005 - Young U.S. soldiers who were not born when the Vietnam war ended 30 years ago, fight today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the ghosts of Vietnam haunt the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the corridors of power in Washington.
April 26, 2005 - hrough the goodwill and generosity of thousands of people with unused frequent flyer miles and U.S. airlines, the Fisher House Foundation has given out nearly 3,000 free airline tickets to war-wounded servicemembers and their families.
April 25, 2005 - With the war on terror putting ever-increasing demands on special operations forces, U.S. Special Operations Command is boosting its manpower and increasing its support to theater commands and geographic commanders.
April 23, 2005 - The U.S. military in Iraq announced the arrests of six men suspected in the Thursday downing of a civilian helicopter. Meanwhile, a series of explosions and insurgent attacks across Iraq left more than 12 people dead Saturday and injured dozens more.
April 23, 2005 - An Iraqi civilian helped Task Force Baghdad soldiers find and apprehend six terrorists suspected of shooting down a civilian Mi-8 helicopter April 21, coalition officials in Baghdad, Iraq.
April 22, 2005 - There are more than 155,000 “trained and equipped” members of the Iraqi security forces, and trends are clearly positive according to a senior defense official. What’s more, U.S. troop strength in Iraq went under 140,000 this week.
April 21, 2005 - A militant group in Iraq says it shot down a civilian helicopter that crashed near Baghdad Thursday, killing all 11 people on board.
April 21, 2005 - In his new post, Mr. Negroponte will coordinate the gathering and sharing of intelligence by the nation's 15 spy agencies. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, says Negroponte is the right person for the job.
April 20, 2005 - Three soldiers wounded in Iraq sparked new legislation to provide low-cost “traumatic injury” insurance for members of America’s armed forces. It would add a low-cost traumatic injury insurance benefit to the Servicemembers Group Life Insurance.
April 20, 2005 - Iraq's president says the bodies of 50 people who were held hostage in recent days have been recovered from the Tigris River, and he has vowed action against the killers.
April 19, 2005 - The black aluminum “HeroBracelets” are each engraved with the name of an American servicemember who has died in the war on terrorism. The bracelets can be customized to adorn a specific name.
April 19, 2005 - Adm. Michael Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee that if he is confirmed as the next chief of naval operations, he will fight for the sailors who are doing so much for freedom around the world.
April 15, 2005 - Joseph Kusy, a 65-year-old naturalized American citizen, said he and his mother were taken out of Poland during World War II to live and labor in Nazi Germany -- two people among millions ensnared by Hitler’s evil ambition.
April 15, 2005 - Some cardinals see Islam as a rival in the battle for souls while others want to reach out to Muslims and enlist their support in combating what they see as the godless nature of modern life.
April 13, 2005 - The authors of the report, about 40 independent Arab scholars and intellectuals, have found that the lack of freedom is one of the key factors that keep the Arab region lagging behind the rest of the world.
April 13, 2005 - Land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and improvised explosive devices are taking their toll on deployed U.S. troops’ bodies. What’s not as easily recognizable is the damage these weapons are doing to servicemembers’ brains.
April 13, 2005 - He may have just been doing his job, but the actions of Spc. Jeremy L. Church saved lives when his convoy came under heavy fire one year ago. They also earned him the first Silver Star awarded to an Army reservist during the global war on terrorism.
April 08, 2005 - One soldier received a Bronze Star and eight received the Army Commendation Medal April 5 for rescuing two Egyptian hostages from terrorists in Baghdad Feb. 7.
April 08, 2005 - The United States is working with a range of allies on the missile defense program. The director of the Missile Defense Agency says the United States is in the process of establishing a limited ability to defend against long-range ballistic missiles.
April 06, 2005 - The Army fell short of its recruiting goals for the first part of this year, but the service is working to improve the situation. For now, it appears that only the Army is having difficulty meeting its goals.
April 06, 2005 - It has been two years since Smith was killed in action, firing a .50-caliber machine gun from atop a broken-down armored personnel carrier in a courtyard where he had been instructed to build a containment facility for detainees near the Baghdad airport.
March 30, 2005 - The White House announced March 29 that President George W. Bush will honor Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith by presenting his family the Medal of Honor on April 4, the second anniversary of his courageous actions during the Battle of Baghdad Airport.
March 28, 2005 - The Army National Guard has retained 73 percent more soldiers during the past three months than it retained during the same period last year, officials reported on Good Friday.
March 28, 2005 - A 3-ton cache of TNT and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition are off the streets of Iraq following an Iraqi army raid near Jurf al-Sakher.
March 28, 2005 - Iraq now as opposed to Iraq two years ago is like night and day, the former commander of one of the units that liberated Baghdad said.
March 26, 2005 - Four soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a mine while traveling on a road about 40 miles south of Kabul. Two soldiers assigned to Task Force Baghdad were killed patrol was struck today by a car bomb. A Marine was also killed in Anbar province.
March 25, 2005 - Task Force Liberty soldiers defeated a terrorist attack near Baqubah at about midnight today, killing three of the attackers. No coalition forces were injured in the attack, officials said, but they provided no further details.
March 24, 2005 - A new health care plan, with coverage comparable to that enjoyed by federal employees under the Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plan, will be available to eligible members of the National Guard and Reserve and their families April 25, 2005.
March 23, 2005 - 'Faces of the Fallen,' an exhibition that opened March 22 at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial here, features more than 1,300 portraits of servicemen and women who have died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
March 23, 2005 - They’d talked on the telephone and in Internet chat rooms for a few months, but had never met face-to-face until March 22, when nearly 40 young widows of servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan attended a luncheon sponsored by the Gold Star Wives.
March 22, 2005 - Marina Ottaway, senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the U.S. doctrine of promoting democracy in the Middle East is risky.
March 22, 2005 - More than 43,000 people showed their support for our nation’s armed forces during the final night of the 2005 Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show.
March 20, 2005 - Two years to the day after the start of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, President Bush defended his decision to go to war. Anti-war activists in Europe remain unconvinced that the March 2003 invasion was justified.
March 19, 2005 - Two years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, most Iraqi people are relieved to be free of Saddam Hussein, hopeful for their country’s future, but frustrated that progress isn’t coming as quickly as they’d like.
March 18, 2005 - As the death toll has climbed during the two years of U.S. military operations in Iraq, the number of young American men and women signing on to serve in the armed forces has declined.
March 16, 2005 - The second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq is Saturday March 19 and the date arrives as a new government is being formed in Baghdad. But, it may take years before the security situation and political process in Iraq are completely stabilized.
March 16, 2005 - Servicemembers who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan often are awestruck and spellbound when they visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s physical therapy rehabilitation center here and see other amputees jumping, running, biking, and swimming.
March 15, 2005 - The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on legislation to provide $81.3 billion to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
March 11, 2005 - The battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and the operations in the Horn of Africa have produced battle-tested leaders who understand the new warfare and are able to battle the threats of the 21st century.
March 11, 2005 - It’s been a long time coming, but U.S. Army Spc. Arafat Khaskheli, who was born in Saudi Arabia but whose nationality is Pakistani, can finally say that he is truly an American.
March 11, 2005 - Working to recruit 80,000 new members by late September, the Army is putting more recruiters in the field and giving them better tools to do their job.
March 08, 2005 - In a rare appearance in Washington, General George Casey offered an optimistic but cautious assessment of the situation in Iraq, where he commands more than 140,000 U.S. and coalition troops.
March 07, 2005 - New York City-based Girl Scouts are marching across Gotham, selling boxes of their famed cookies earmarked for overseas troops.
March 03, 2005 - The Army missed its February recruiting goals for the active duty, Guard and Reserve forces. It was the first time the service missed recruiting goals in five years. In February, the active Army’s goal was 7,050 new recruits, and the service fell short by
February 28, 2005 - Families came here from 18 states on Feb. 26 to attend a reception at Kuwaiti Embassy so Ambassador Sheik Salem al-Sabah could personally thank them for the ultimate sacrifice their loved ones made to liberate his country during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
February 27, 2005 - Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti was one of the leaders of Saddam's infamous Security Service and served as an adviser to Saddam, and the Iraqi government news release announcing his capture said he "has killed and tortured Iraqi citizens."
February 24, 2005 - President George W. Bush’s stop at the airfield was part of a three-day series of meetings with NATO officials and European leaders. Before greeting service members, the president met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Mainz.
February 23, 2005 - President Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called on Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program. In a joint news conference, they also said Syria must withdraw not only its troops but also its secret services from Lebanon.
February 22, 2005 - Despite Iranian claims to the contrary, U.S. military aircraft are not flying missions in Iran's airspace, Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita said.
February 20, 2005 - European leaders are eager to repair trans-Atlantic ties, frayed by the Iraq War. But, substantive policy differences remain, and are not likely to be overcome as the result of one fence-mending trip.
February 20, 2005 - Almost 100 Iraqis are dead following two days of terrorism in the country.
A wave of suicide bombings ere aimed at Shiia Muslims commemorating Ashura.
February 18, 2005 - For nearly 100 years, the U.S. Defense Department has presented a check to the survivors of servicemen and women killed in the line of duty. In his 2006 budget, President Bush has proposed boosting the amount to $100k for soldiers killed in combat zones.
February 17, 2005 - Servicemembers receiving federal tax exemptions for some or all of their military pay may now elect to apply for certain tax credit options. Troops deployed to combat zones can now apply for tax refunds based on earned income tax credits.
February 11, 2005 - Nothing highlights the importance of flexibility and joint capabilities better than the recent battle of Fallujah. The battle in November and December 2004 highlighted the flexibility, adaptability and joint capabilities of the U.S. military.
February 10, 2005 - The Okinawa-based unit has been in place since mid-October 2004 and was tasked with planning and executing various missions throughout a 33,000 square-mile area of operations, about the size of South Carolina.
February 09, 2005 - The 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, together with a company of Oregon National Guard Soldiers, rounded out their service in Iraq with the presentation of heroic medals.
February 09, 2005 - Spirit of America and Timex will partner to send children’s watches overseas for distribution by the 1st Marine Division serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
February 07, 2005 - The Army is preparing its land technology to be displayed among the world’s top automotive equipment for the first time in more than 30 years.
February 07, 2005 - People are the highest priority in the budget. It funds a 3.1 percent pay raise for military personnel and raises the basic allowance for housing 4 percent. The budget request expands Tricare to cover mobilizing reservists and their families.
February 06, 2005 - Recalling his last moments in combat, Collier said a radio was strapped to his back as he took a knee in a seemingly safe place. He was passing word to another platoon when an AK-47 round entered the back of his left shoulder and mushroomed into his lung.
February 05, 2005 - The president promised that the United States 'will also honor the sacrifices of the fallen by increasing substantially the payments made to the families of our servicemen and women who have given their lives in the war on terror.'
February 04, 2005 - The premise of the 30-second spot is not a typical plug for a product, but rather is a show of support for America’s armed forces. The commercial is about servicemembers returning from overseas who are welcomed home with an eruption of applause.
February 03, 2005 - The Defense Department is on the lookout for people with language skills to support not only current operations, but future ones as well, according to Gail McGinn, deputy undersecretary of defense for plans.
February 03, 2005 - A United Nations-appointed panel investigating the Iraq oil-for-food program says it found conclusive evidence of gross mismanagement and conflict of interest by a senior U.N. official.
February 01, 2005 - Pentagon leaders and Capitol Hill legislators want to increase the current available combined government death benefit for families of fallen servicemembers by about $250,000.
January 29, 2005 - After being shot at while patrolling in the Mosul, Iraq, area, soldiers of the 2nd Squadron, 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment tracked down and detained six people suspected of being involved in the attack.
January 27, 2005 - Officers can now share their deployment experiences with their local communities through the Special Recruiter Assistance Program.
January 26, 2005 - January is National Volunteer Blood Donor Month, and the Armed Services Blood Program joins Dr. William Winkenwerder, Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, in commending those who have taken the time to save lives.
January 25, 2005 - The Bush administration intends to ask Congress for an estimated $80 billion budget supplemental, most of it to help cover the costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
January 24, 2005 - Although most of northern Iraq has been spared the level of violence experienced in Mosul, both the Kurdistan Regional Government and the private sector have raised security to the highest level.
January 24, 2005 - The U.N. General Assembly has held a special session marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Foreign ministers and a host of dignitaries joined death camp survivors for the observance.
January 23, 2005 - A suspected senior insurgent and two others found operating an illegal checkpoint in a Baghdad neighborhood were captured by Iraqi police Jan. 22, 2005.
January 20, 2005 - The find contributes to the task force's four-week streak of finding weapons caches and detaining anti-Iraqi forces in this previously unpatrolled area along the Euphrates River.
January 20, 2005 - Iraqi Security Forces guarding the Al Salam Hospital in eastern Mosul, Iraq, held off an insurgent attack today. Doctors, staff, and patients fled the hospital because of the attack, and no injuries were reported.
January 18, 2005 - You could argue that Master Sgt. Frederick Douglas of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard is living history as an African American while he is engaged in homeland defense. You would win the argument.
January 18, 2005 - The president headlined a star-studded lineup of celebrities and military and civilian government leaders who gathered at the MCI Center here for a gala 'Saluting Those Who Serve' event to honor members of the armed forces.
January 18, 2005 - The Army sponsored the All-American Bowl Jan. 15, showcasing the talents of 78 high school football players, and senior Army leaders said there were many reasons to sponsor the event.
January 14, 2005 - Nearly 1,100 Iraqis converged on a police recruiting center south of Baghdad on Jan. 13 to compete for 100 jobs at police stations throughout northern Babil Province.
January 14, 2005 - Although Soldiers might be separated from the rest of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, housed at Camp Al-Nasr (Camp Liberty), the split promotes another type of relationship -- closer interaction with the people of Iraq.
January 12, 2005 - A little-known group of sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard members is preparing to provide behind-the-scenes military support for presidential inaugural activities.
January 09, 2005 - An investigation is under way after a coalition F- 16 aircraft mistakenly conducted an airstrike against the wrong target south of Mosul Jan. 8, Multinational Force Iraq officials announced.
January 08, 2005 - Shortly after a U.S. Army general in Iraq predicted a surge in attacks with the approach of the Iraq elections, militants have abducted several senior Iraqi officials, beheaded an Iraqi who worked for the coalition and killed at least four others.
January 06, 2005 - Iraqi residents of Fallujah are slowly being allowed to return to their homes, nearly two months after fleeing a massive U.S.-led offensive there.
December 30, 2004 - The Army will meet its requirement of 8,105 up-armored Humvees by March 2005, has equipped all deployed Soldiers and DoD civilians with Interceptor Body Armor, and has also developed a more flexible system for meeting field commander’s equipment needs.
December 29, 2004 - American Soldiers wounded on the battlefield are traditionally awarded the "Purple Heart," as a token of their nation's appreciation for their sacrifice. But a medal can't help seriously wounded soldiers face the challenge of moving on in life.
December 28, 2004 - Iraqi citizens continue to help U.S. soldiers rid their country of illegal weapons, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported today.
December 26, 2004 - With U.S. troops deployed to Iraq for the second holiday season, many people back home are feeling a need to do whatever they can to support the troops however they can
December 26, 2004 - Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the capture of insurgents and the discovery of illegal weapons caches in recent days.
December 23, 2004 - nstant decisions and decisive action led to two soldiers receiving the Soldiers Medal here Dec. 18 for heroism in a fight to save the lives of four Cobra AH-1 attack helicopter pilots.
December 22, 2004 - What began as a small shipment of air conditioners to a son's military unit has now grown into a million-dollar operation, including shipments ranging from personal-care products, such as foot powder and bug spray, to commercial-grade appliances.
December 22, 2004 - The following is a series of short articles that illustrate the ‘say anything’ dialogue developed among soldiers during both the long stretches of monotony and the dynamic sweeping events that so often define war.
December 22, 2004 - It appears that a suicide bomber was responsible for the attack on the mess hall at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul that killed 22 people Dec. 21, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a Pentagon news briefing.
December 21, 2004 - An explosion ripped through a tent at a military base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 60 others. At least 19 American military personnel are among the dead.
December 21, 2004 - Founded by Roger Chapin, the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes is working to lessen the frustrations of severely injured veterans and return their independence.
December 20, 2004 - Substantial increases in enlistment and re-enlistment bonuses were announced at the Pentagon Dec. 16. Some of the bonuses will be increased from $5,000 to $15,000.
December 20, 2004 - This is the time of year when we want to give special recognition to the men and women in uniform -- volunteers all -- who defend our Nation and the cause of freedom.
December 17, 2004 - The U.S. government has written off 100 percent of Iraq's sovereign debt to the United States, a total of $4.1 billion, with an agreement signed on December 17.
December 14, 2004 - Department of Defense released a partial rotation list Dec. 14 of units scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
December 13, 2004 - Seven Marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in action Dec. 12 in two separate incidents while conducting security and stabilization operations in Iraq.
December 13, 2004 - One year ago today, the ace of spades in the infamous deck of 55 cards representing the most-wanted people in Iraq, was taken into custody. Saddam was found by American forces, hiding in a hole not far from where the former dictator was born.
December 11, 2004 - An additional 100 up-armored Humvees per month could soon be heading to Iraq, according to Army officials.
December 08, 2004 - The United States Wednesday expressed renewed concerns about Syrian and Iranian involvement in Iraq, accusing Iran in particular of what it calls interference in the Iraqi electoral process.
December 08, 2004 - Some soldiers headed for duty in Iraq took the secretary of defense at his word in Kuwait today when he encouraged them to ask him tough questions at a town-hall meeting.
December 07, 2004 - Muslim militants in Saudi Arabia stormed the heavily fortified U.S. consulate in Jeddah Monday, prompting a gun battle that left twelve dead, including three gunmen.
December 05, 2004 - A Mexican-American who lived in San Diego, Peralta earned his citizenship after he joined the Marine Corps. He was a platoon scout, which meant he could have stayed back in safety while the squads of 1st Platoon went into the danger filled streets.
December 05, 2004 - Pakistani President, General Pervez Musharraf, says his country's troops do not know the whereabouts of wanted al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
December 02, 2004 - President Bush says the Iraqi election scheduled for January 30 should not be postponed. The president says it is important for the vote to take place on time.
December 01, 2004 - The Secretary of Defense approved a request to extend two Army brigades and a Marine Expeditionary Unit operating in Iraq. The Secretary also approved the Commander’s request for two additional infantry battalions to deploy to Iraq.
November 30, 2004 - Washington's ambassador to the United Nations has urged Secretary-General Kofi Annan to promptly release all information concerning the scandal-ridden Iraq oil-for-food program.
November 29, 2004 - he men and women of AdoptaPlatoon, a nonprofit group, volunteer their time and energies to support deployed U.S. servicemembers and their families.
November 28, 2004 - For the first time in history, Iraq’s citizens will have the chance to become involved in a process that many Americans take for granted; the opportunity to vote.
November 26, 2004 - Iraqi, U.S. and British forces rounded up 81 suspected insurgents near Yusufiyah, Iraq, Nov. 25, continuing a three-day-old offensive aimed at restoring security and stability to northern Babil province.
November 24, 2004 - Comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres honored America's servicemembers when she presented $1.2 million in cruises to military families, aired messages from deployed troops, and plugged the Pentagon's new America Supports You program.
November 23, 2004 - With so many military families scrambling to ship holiday care packages to their loved ones deployed around the world, the U.S. Postal Service is stepping in to make things a bit easier.
November 22, 2004 - Children from across the country held a special nationwide election and chose the military as most deserving of a caring gesture. And to the victors in the Great Community Cookie Election of 2004 go the spoils: 2,004 chocolate chip cookies!
November 17, 2004 - The National Football League's support of America's armed forces during the war against global terrorism continues a tradition that's been maintained since World War II.
November 16, 2004 - The U.S. military has opened an investigation into whether a U.S. Marine used illegal force in the fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi insurgent inside a mosque in Fallujah.
November 15, 2004 - Secretary of State Colin Powell, saying "I think we've accomplished a great deal," announced his resignation from the Bush administration at a November 15 State Department briefing.
November 15, 2004 - The battle against insurgents and terrorists being waged by U.S. troops, Iraqi military units and coalition allies in Fallujah, Iraq, is decisive, according to the commander of the U.S. Central Command.
November 12, 2004 - After five days of fighting, U.S. and Iraqi forces are now said to be in control of nearly all of Fallujah, capturing or killing hundreds of insurgents who have used the city as a stronghold for months.
November 12, 2004 - The 18,200 square-foot exhibit – the most comprehensive display of American military history in the country – features more than 850 artifacts and pays tribute to the men and women who have served in uniform from the Revolutionary War to the present.
November 10, 2004 - On Thursday, at precisely eleven in the morning Washington time, President Bush is expected to speak at the annual Veterans’ Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where he will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
November 10, 2004 - The resignations of two important members of President Bush's Cabinet, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans are the first of several major changes likely to take place over the coming weeks.
November 09, 2004 - Foreign policy experts say in the next four years, the Bush administration will have to deal effectively with two countries, Iran and North Korea, in an effort to curtail the possible spread of nuclear weapons.
November 09, 2004 - A top U.S. military commander in Iraq is reporting better than expected progress in the fight to retake the Sunni rebel stronghold of Fallujah, but says senior insurgent and terrorist leaders have probably already escaped.
November 09, 2004 - Artillery rounds pounded insurgent positions in Fallujah, Iraq, through much of the night, and multinational forces have pushed their way through a third of the city.
November 09, 2004 - leader of Air Force Reserve Command said Airmen volunteering for duty are leading his command’s ability to support the war effort; however, changes to the amount of time people will be asked to be overseas are on the horizon.
November 09, 2004 - Unmanned aerial vehicles are earning star status in the global war on terror, becoming the most-requested capability among combatant commanders in Southwest Asia and increasing fourfold in that theater during the last year alone.
November 08, 2004 - Iraqi and U.S. forces began their long-awaited assault today against insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, in an operation dubbed Al Fajr, the Iraqi word for dawn.
November 05, 2004 - U.S. forces are closing in on the Iraqi city of Fallujah, launching new air strikes on the rebel stronghold, while Iraq's prime minister warns that a long-threatened battle to regain control of the city could be imminent.
November 03, 2004 - The hard-fought 2004 U.S. presidential election came to an end Wednesday when Democrat John Kerry conceded defeat to the Republican incumbent, President George Bush. Mr. Bush now looks ahead to another four years in office.
November 01, 2004 - Sgt. Orlando Gill sat in a wheelchair on the 50-yard line at FedEx Field, flanked by two other injured Operation Iraqi Freedom Soldiers -- Spc. Rosetta Floyd and Cpl. Norman Jones -- taking in thunderous applause from thousands of football fans.
October 30, 2004 - Eight Marines were killed and nine others were wounded today in operations in Iraq's Al Anbar province. Marines have been deployed to the area since March.
October 28, 2004 - Recently returned from a trip to Asia, Secretary of State Colin Powell says resumption of the Six-Party Talks on making the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free depends on North Korea.
October 28, 2004 - Soldiers scheduled to head overseas in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in the next two years shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for shorter deployments in the near future, according to the Army’s top two uniformed leaders.
October 26, 2004 - Yes, it has been a tough 86 years for Boston Red Sox fans. No one has experienced the history of numerous dramatic tragedies more than native New England soldiers, deployed to Iraq, who keep a flame of hope for their home team thousands of miles away.
October 26, 2004 - Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is accusing the United States and its coalition partners of being partly to blame for Saturday's deadly ambush of dozens of Iraqi soldiers. US defense officials are rejecting that charge.
October 25, 2004 - Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, are charging into the final week of the U.S. campaign for the White House trading increasingly tough charges on the continuing conflict in Iraq.
October 25, 2004 - The International Atomic Energy Agency says several hundred tons of high explosive material have disappeared in Iraq. The agency says a lack of security has led to looting from several sites.
October 24, 2004 - The bodies of as many as 49 soldiers with the new Iraqi army were discovered northeast of Baghdad late Saturday. The soldiers were ambushed by insurgents who executed them as they lay on the ground.
October 23, 2004 - Multinational forces captured a senior leader from terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi's inner circle today in a raid on a safe house in Fallujah, Iraq.
October 22, 2004 - Their military service started at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center; now 62 years later, the last survivors of a World War II parachute infantry regiment gathered at the Florida facility for their last reunion and to retire their regimental colors.
October 22, 2004 - After two years, the official U.S. Army game has registered more than 4 million users and is now one of the top five games in the world.
October 22, 2004 - The State Department's removal of Iraq this week from its list of state sponsors of terrorism represents an important symbolic act and show of support for Iraq's interim government, according to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
October 21, 2004 - Britain has accepted a U.S. request to move some of its troops in Iraq closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for counter-insurgency operations ahead of Iraqi elections in January.
October 20, 2004 - Democratic Party presidential nominee John Kerry says Americans are united in fighting terrorism, and he is renewing criticism of Republican President Bush for the failure to capture terrorist Osama bin Laden.
October 18, 2004 - Britain says it could deploy combat troops near Baghdad to free up U.S. forces for counter-terrorism operations before Iraqi elections planned for January.
October 18, 2004 - More than 400 rockets, 7,275 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition and one U.S. Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided Missile were just the tip of the iceberg during a recent weapons cache discovery north of Baghdad.
October 18, 2004 - The commanding general of a group of soldiers that allegedly refused to take part in a recent convoy operation in Iraq told reporters the event was an isolated incident.
October 17, 2004 - Two U.S. Army pilots were killed when two cargo helicopters crashed Oct. 16 in southwest Baghdad, Iraq, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported.
October 15, 2004 - Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alan P. Dementer, a hospital corpsman, does not consider himself a hero. He says he was just doing his job when he treated 31 Marines wounded during an attack on their battalion command center in Iraq.
October 15, 2004 - The National Football League will donate $250,000 to the United Service Organizations in memory of former Arizona Cardinals player and Army Ranger Cpl. Pat Tillman, the league announced at the annual USO gala.
October 11, 2004 - Militiamen in Baghdad are handing over their heavy weapons in a deal to bring peace to a poverty-stricken area of the capital. In the meantime, car bomb making factories were discovered north of Baghdad following the re-taking of the city of Samarra.
October 11, 2004 -
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October 10, 2004 - t least 18 people, including an American soldier, were killed following two car bombings in Baghdad. The attacks occurred while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq to speak with military leaders and U.S. Marines.
October 07, 2004 - President Bush says he was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power despite a new CIA report that concludes the then-Iraqi leader had not produced or possessed weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade.
October 06, 2004 - Iraq and the war on terror played a prominent role in the debate between Vice President Cheney and Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. The debate was held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 06, 2004 - Hussein was actively pursuing illegal financing and procurement efforts to undermine U.N.-imposed sanctions that prevented him from reconstituting weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
October 06, 2004 - Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer says Iraq had no stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion. The Bush administration cited this threat as a main reason for going to war.
October 05, 2004 - Injured servicemembers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan will get individualized job training, counseling and re-employment services, Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced Oct. 4.
October 04, 2004 - Poland's defense minister has surprised his colleagues in the country's pro-U.S. government by suggesting that Warsaw should withdraw its nearly 2,500 troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
September 30, 2004 - Deadly car bombs ripped through several neighborhoods in and around Baghdad Thursday, killing more than 40 people, many of them children. Officials say a U.S. soldier and two Iraqi police officers were among the dead.
September 28, 2004 - Troops from Multinational Force Iraq conducted an early-morning precision strike on a site in southern Fallujah, military officials in Iraq announced in a written statement. The statement said the site was a confirmed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorist site.
September 27, 2004 - If Syria doesn't reverse its counterproductive policy in Iraq, then the United States and Syria will have a major deterioration in relations, said a senior U.S. government official today.
September 25, 2004 - U.S. military forces have been carrying out targeted attacks in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, as part of a continuing effort to wipe out a terrorist group believed responsible for numerous car bombings and kidnappings.
September 23, 2004 - Dr. Ali Alattar has some compelling stories to tell, and he believes U.S. military service members and their families need to hear them.
September 20, 2004 - Two American and one British hostage in Iraq faced a deadline for their execution Monday, as another radical group threatened to kill 18 Iraqi national guardsmen it apparently seized late last week.
September 18, 2004 - Three years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States is still on the offensive to confront terrorist threats to the country, President Bush told radio listeners today during his weekly address.
September 16, 2004 - Orthopedic surgeons here at Brooke Army Medical Center are doing more than restoring limbs for troops wounded in combat. Armed with the latest surgical techniques and technology, they're giving wounded troops the tools to rebuild their lives.
September 16, 2004 - 'I’ve acquired a target Sir…. Permission to engage!!' It sounds like dialogue taken from a movie or a video game, but with the steady squeeze of the trigger, reality comes crashing down, and a Marine realizes the importance of his daily training.
September 16, 2004 - A precision strike on a compound near Fallujah has killed approximately 60 terrorists. The strike destroyed three buildings in which members of Abu Musab Zarqawi terrorist group were meeting.
September 16, 2004 - President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry are both on the campaign trail Thursday clashing over U.S. policy in Iraq and looking for votes from America's military veterans.
September 14, 2004 - Decorated World War II veteran and U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye joined other veterans and dignitaries in remembering America’s prisoners of war and missing service members for the National POW/MIA Observance at the Pentagon.
September 12, 2004 - Fighting has erupted across Baghdad, starting with several pre-dawn blasts in the Green Zone. At least 35 Iraqis are reported dead in a day-long series of attacks.
September 12, 2004 - Two leading U.S. officials say Washington does not believe a recent explosion in North Korea was nuclear. South Korean reports say the explosion caused a large mushroom-shaped cloud in North Korea's Yanggang province, near the Chinese border.
September 09, 2004 - If the troops can't get to ESPN, then ESPN will go to the troops. "It's our way of honoring the troops," said ESPN spokesman Dan Quinn.
September 09, 2004 - Marci Kay Cornwell is among several military wives and volunteers involved in Operation Kid Comfort, a nearly year-old project that provides children with quilts stitched with fabric photos of their absent parent.
September 08, 2004 - President Bush says Americans who have sacrificed their lives in Iraq were fighting for freedom. Senator Kerry says the president has mishandled the invasion and put too many lives at risk.
September 07, 2004 - U.S. forces have been battling insurgents in Sadr City, a Baghdad slum where hostilities have frequently erupted. Meanwhile, the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq since the March, 2003 U.S.-led invasion reached 1,000.
September 06, 2004 - President Bush and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry sparred over Iraq Monday as they campaigned in states where the race for the White House is extremely close.
September 06, 2004 - Seven U.S. Marines and three members of the Iraqi National Guard were killed in a terror attack in the suburbs of Fallujah, officials in Baghdad said.
September 02, 2004 - Army Staff Sgt. Michele Mitchell's journey here to the Defense Department's only center committed to treating burn victims began in late April, when she was riding in an up-armored Humvee near Baghdad.
September 01, 2004 - Multinational Force Iraq conducted a "precision attack" in southwest Fallujah tonight, targeting an operating location used by the network of fugitive terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, officials announced in a news release.
August 30, 2004 - Iraq's interim government has been talking with Sunni Muslim and tribal leaders in the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in a bid to end insurgencies there.
August 28, 2004 - A court in Yemen has sentenced one man to death and 14 others to prison terms for a series of attacks and terrorist plots, including one to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to Yemen. Five of the 15 defendants are reportedly members of al-Qaida.
August 26, 2004 - Almost a year after its inception, the R&R program for American troops engaged in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom reached a milestone when the 100,000th troop in the program flew out of the Central Command theater of operations.
August 24, 2004 - Responding to recommendations contained in the report by the 9/11 Commission, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts unveiled comprehensive legislation to revamp the 15-agency U.S. intelligence community.
August 23, 2004 - U.S. troops and Shiite militants fought fierce battles in the Iraqi city of Najaf, where insurgents have been holed up in a mosque for nearly three weeks.
August 23, 2004 - Iron Horse Brigade Soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division have spent the past week in an operation to root out radical Mahdi Army forces terrorizing the eastern Baghdad district known as Sadr City.
August 18, 2004 - U.S. officials are giving a cautious welcome to reports that radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will end his rebellion in Najaf. The militia leader pledged to disarm in a letter to the national political conference in Baghdad.
August 16, 2004 - President Bush says tens-of-thousands of U.S. troops based in Western Europe and Asia will be pulled out and sent to other bases, primarily on American soil. The White House says it is part of the most comprehensive military reconfiguration in 50 years.
August 13, 2004 - Those on Iraqi soil may now be seeing two black wings flying near the speed of sound, followed by 11 other F/A-18D Hornets. Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 sent their Marines to replace Marine Attack Squadron 214 .
August 09, 2004 - After visiting troops in Iraq and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, pro football hall-of-famer Deacon Jones looked to his football past to bolster the servicemembers' morale.
August 09, 2004 - For the fifth day, U.S. forces battled militia loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf. Politician Ahmad Chalabi and his nephew vow to fight charges brought against them in an Iraqi court.
August 04, 2004 - Two Turkish and four Jordanian hostages have been freed in Iraq. But on Wednesday a militia group loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr abducted six Iraqi policemen in the holy city of Najaf.
August 03, 2004 - The Defense Department's Combat Feeding program at the U.S. Army Soldier System Center in Natick, Mass., is a one-stop shop for all combat-rations development, field food-service equipment and total combat feeding systems.
August 02, 2004 - About 50 military veterans in California's San Quentin State Prison joined forces with volunteers from Operation Mom over the weekend to wrap 430 care packages for shipment to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
August 01, 2004 - Americans have a long history of personal generosity to others in need in far away lands.
August 01, 2004 - The Army Corps of Engineers is recruiting Soldiers who are leaving the Army, retired military, family members and Department of Defense civilians to work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
July 26, 2004 - Hot meals, hot showers and a comfortable place to sleep are some everyday things that Force Provider, the Army's premier base camp, strives to offer troops in the field.
July 24, 2004 - President Bush hailed the 9/11 commission's final report released July 22, pointing to its 'serious and comprehensive' findings. The commission, chaired by Thomas H. Kean, presented its bipartisan, 567-page report to the president July 22.
July 22, 2004 - While there is room for improvement in detainee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, cases of reported detainee abuse there were caused primarily by individuals failing to live up to the standards of decency and Army Values they had been taught.
July 21, 2004 - It began when Amy Oxford and her mother, Kathy Williams, saw no outward show of support for deployed troops in their hometown of Harrisburg, Ill. With her husband, scheduled to deploy with his unit based in Fairfield, Oxford realized an opportunity.
July 20, 2004 - Toyota Motor Sales, USA, presented the foundation with a $1.25 million grant that will establish the Toyota Scholars Program, which will award $5,000 scholarships to students from each of the company's 12 sales regions across the US.
July 19, 2004 - On a baseball field in Vermont Aug. 7, a group of National Guardsmen will join forces with families of troops deployed in the war on terror to honor the 11 Vermonters who have paid the ultimate price for freedom.
July 19, 2004 - At least nine people were killed and as many as 60 others wounded following the bombing of a police station in southern Baghdad. Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen assassinated a senior defense ministry official near his home late Sunday.
July 19, 2004 - President Bush says the United States is still investigating whether Iran played any role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
July 18, 2004 - Coalition aircraft hit a stronghold of fugitive terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi outside Fallujah. News reports indicate 14 people were killed and three injured.
July 14, 2004 - A family's show of support for their deployed son has evolved into a nationwide drive that a commander deployed to Afghanistan said 'epitomizes all that is good in the American people.'
July 13, 2004 - Nine years ago, while her husband was deployed, Arlyn McClaughry started an online newsletter as a way to bring service members and military families information on the Web. She and other spouses also began mailing packages and letters to deployed troops.
July 13, 2004 - A Bulgarian hostage in Iraq has reportedly been executed by militants, while the fate of two other hostages, another Bulgarian and a Filipino, still hang in the balance.
July 13, 2004 - then 46,000 Soldiers have been able to continue their education by taking online classes through eArmyU, including many of the Soldiers deployed, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
July 08, 2004 - Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today warned Americans that al Qaeda is planning to attack somewhere in the United States between now and the national presidential election.
July 08, 2004 - A Massachusetts brother and sister have set their sights on megabucks to make it easier for all deployed U.S. service members to call home.
July 08, 2004 - An American Marine missing from duty in Iraq since last month and who had earlier been reported executed has mysteriously surfaced at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon.
July 07, 2004 - Guardsmen and reservists whose active duty time is extended past the normal 12-month call-up may be eligible for active duty-level benefits of the Montgomery GI Bill under certain circumstances.
July 06, 2004 - Edwards, a rival of Kerry during the 2004 presidential primary season, accepted the offer during a telephone conversation on the morning of July 6. Kerry announced his decision first in an e-mail to his supporters and then at a Pittsburgh rally.
July 04, 2004 - Iran announced Sunday that it wants to bring charges of its own against deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein at his forthcoming trial. The Iranian Foreign Ministry says it will submit an indictment detailing crimes committed by Saddam Hussein.
July 01, 2004 - The Defense Department has established a "one-stop" place to go whenever servicemembers or family members need assistance with any kind of problem.
July 01, 2004 - A defiant Saddam Hussein has been arraigned in an Iraqi court where he rejected charges against him and denounced the tribunal set to try him for war crimes as theatre. It was the first time the world has seen him since just after he was captured.
July 01, 2004 - The Army plans to order 5,600 Soldier in the Individual Ready Reserve to active duty for possible deployment with the next Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom rotations.
June 29, 2004 - Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his government will take legal custody of former leader Saddam Hussein on Wednesday, along with as many as 11 other senior officials of the former regime.
June 28, 2004 - The Monday morning handover of power in Iraq surprised the world. Analysts and diplomats agree the fear of terrorist attacks during the scheduled sovereignty transfer prompted the change of plans. But nobody expects the violence to end any time soon.
June 28, 2004 - The high court ruled Monday that the U.S. government has the authority to apprehend and indefinitely detain people, but added that they may legally challenge their detention.
June 28, 2004 - Sovereignty in Iraq passed from the Coalition Provisional Authority to the interim Iraqi government June 28, two days ahead of schedule.
June 28, 2004 - The unexpected turnover of Iraqi sovereignty on June 28 -- two days ahead of schedule -- came at the request of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who believed it would strengthen his hand against terrorists and insurgents.
June 26, 2004 - When the United States put $15 million each on the heads of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein, it took only about week for someone to turn them in.
June 21, 2004 - One Iraqi Freedom veteran who lost the use of his legs when his Humvee was sideswiped in Iraqi, has taken home a gold metal at the 24th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, in St Louis, Mo.
June 20, 2004 - Iraq's deputy prime minister implored the American press to provide more balanced coverage of operations in Iraq.
June 16, 2004 - Troops across Iraq use the resources they have available, and in true Marine fashion, figure out ways to make themselves faster and safer on the battlefield.
June 16, 2004 - Campers and counselors didn't seem to mind the scorching midday sun here June 15 as they joined hands and swayed to the patriotic tunes on the athletic field of the South Mountain YMCA.
June 14, 2004 - At least 13 people, including several Westerners have been killed in Baghdad after a vehicle loaded with explosives plowed into a convoy carrying foreign contractors.
June 11, 2004 - In Pakistan, thousands of troops, supported by helicopter gunships are attacking suspected hideouts of the al-Qaida terror network in a semi-autonomous tribal region near the Afghan border.
June 09, 2004 - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he welcomed its passage and pledged the United Nations would play its part in the next phase of the country's transition from war and occupation.
June 07, 2004 - The United States has proposed withdrawing about one-third of American troops from South Korea by the end of next year, as part of a realignment of forces under discussion with authorities in Seoul.
June 06, 2004 - Leaders of 16 nations paid a poignant tribute to surviving veterans and those who died during the D-Day landings 60 years ago that led to the eventual surrender of Nazi Germany.
June 05, 2004 - Long before the world heard of the mass graves Saddam Hussein filled in Iraq, the Khmer Rouge slaughtered millions of Cambodians in the mid-1970s after the United States stopped bombing their sanctuaries in Indochina.
June 04, 2004 - Although the U.S. military's legal process exists independently from U.S. civilian/criminal law and courts, a closer look at military courts demonstrates that they are very similar to civilian courts.
June 03, 2004 - The resignation of Central Intelligence Director George Tenet has prompted bipartisan calls for reforming U.S. intelligence agencies. Mr. Tenet's decision to step down comes amid controversies over intelligence lapses relating to Iraq and September 11.
June 02, 2004 - Seven Iraqis who were mutilated while imprisoned under Saddam Hussein visited the U.S. Congress Tuesday to urge lawmakers and the American people to stay committed to establishing democracy in Iraq.
May 26, 2004 - U.S. forces in Iraq have captured a key aide to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, during a series of overnight raids in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf. Meanwhile, the Coalition Provisional Authority announced the formation of a new task force.
May 26, 2004 - Two of the nation's top law enforcement officials today asked for help from state and local police and the public to stop a potential terror attack on the United States expected this summer or fall.
May 24, 2004 - President Bush has outlined his strategy for the transfer of political power in Iraq, but warned that insurgents will likely become more active as the June 30 handover approaches.
May 24, 2004 - An Iraqi public opinion poll to be released later this week indicates a growing number of people in the country say they support a radical Shiite Muslim cleric whose militia is fighting coalition forces.
May 22, 2004 - There are no indications a wedding party took place at a remote desert site in western Iraq near the Syrian border where U.S. forces are accused of killing about 20 people.
May 22, 2004 - In Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives outside the home of a senior Iraqi official Saturday, slightly injuring him but killing several members of his security team.
May 19, 2004 - The first of a series of U.S. military trials in Iraq stemming from a prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib detention facility ended with the conviction of Army Specialist Jeremy Sivits. Specialist Sivits may provide testimony against six other soldiers.
May 18, 2004 - Troops can throw it around a corner, through a window, up the stairs, on the roof or in a cave and the rugged Dragon Runner will land on its feet and continue its mission.
May 17, 2004 - Senior members of the Bush administration have sought to allay fears among members of Congress about potential problems that could arise after the restoration of sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government on June 30.
May 17, 2004 - A roadside bomb containing the nerve agent sarin — a substance Saddam Hussein's regime insisted it had destroyed more than a decade ago — exploded near a U.S. military convoy traveling near Baghdad.
May 15, 2004 - The U.S. military says clashes in the central Iraqi city of Karbala have killed at least two fighters from radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia.
May 14, 2004 - The words spoken at opening ceremony honored all veterans, but those serving in the most recent war felt them most strongly. Seated in front of hundreds of service members and visitors at this year's event were severely injured Iraq war veterans.
May 13, 2004 - President Bush has formally sent Congress his request for an initial $25 billion for continued military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next budget year beginning October 1.
May 12, 2004 - Two more U.S. soldiers will face military courts- martial in the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, coalition officials in Baghdad said today.
May 10, 2004 - Four service members were among 11 candidates NASA has chosen to be the next generation of space explorers.
May 10, 2004 - Nearly 5,000 active-duty and Reservist Navy nurses will celebrate the Nurse Corps’ 96th anniversary May 13.
May 10, 2004 - U.S. aircraft bombed the offices of a radical Shiite leader Monday in southern Iraq. Meanwhile, armed insurgents shot and killed two foreigners working in northern Iraq. U.S. warplanes bombed the Sadr City offices of wanted radical Shiite cleric Moqtada.
May 07, 2004 - From the minutemen of the Revolutionary War to the reservists defending their nation today – U.S. citizens have left their civilian lives behind to enter combat zones.
May 06, 2004 - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to face tough questioning before Congress Friday about the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops.
May 05, 2004 - The head of the political science department at Lebanese-American University in Beirut, Sami Baroudi, says President Bush will now have to deliver on his promise.
May 05, 2004 - President Bush considers the actions of a few soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq ''abhorrent'' and told Arab news services that the abuse at the prison ''does not represent the America that I know.''
May 04, 2004 - President Bush is urging the Pentagon to take action against any U.S. soldier who has abused Iraqi prisoners. Iraq was a major theme when the president left Washington for his first major campaign trip of the election year.
May 03, 2004 - Concerned about the welfare of troops returning home with disabilities from the war on terror, a new nonprofit group is raising money to build houses adapted to their needs.
May 03, 2004 - The kidnapping and murdering of civilian contractors in Iraq has not deterred thousands of workers from providing aid to American troops and assisting with the build-up of Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 01, 2004 - A new Army program will help severely disabled soldiers and their families cut through red tape so they can more easily tap into services available to them through the military and Department of Veterans Affairs.
April 28, 2004 - Syrian television says officials are investigating whether members of the terrorist group al-Qaida were behind Tuesday's shootout with Syrian security forces in Damascus that left four people dead.
April 27, 2004 - The surviving Witmer sisters, Charity and Rachel, today decided to complete their active military duty elsewhere than Iraq.
April 27, 2004 - About 20,000 Soldiers who have been involuntarily extended beyond their expected 12 months of duty in Iraq or Kuwait will be eligible for extra pay of $1,000 a month.
April 26, 2004 - A series of Combined Joint Task Force 7 news releases provided details of various recent operations in Iraq.
April 26, 2004 - At least three more American soldiers have died in a day of violence across Iraq Monday. After weeks of battles with Iraqi insurgents, U.S. military commanders are strongly suggesting that Sunni and Shiite rebels in two towns may soon face a full assault.
April 25, 2004 - City representatives in Fallujah have agreed to allow joint patrols by Iraqi and U.S. forces to begin in the city April 28.
April 24, 2004 - He was so moved by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, that he turned down a $3.6 million professional football contract to become an Army Ranger. Spc. Pat Tillman, 27, who was deployed with the 75th Ranger Regiment from Fort Benning, Ga., was killed April 22.
April 23, 2004 - A radical Shi'ite cleric has threatened to unleash suicide bombers against coalition forces if they conduct military offensives in Iraqi cities holy to Shi'ite Muslims.
April 22, 2004 - Lt. Gen. James T. Conway, the I Marine Expeditionary Force commanding general, said the people of Fallujah, Iraq, have ''days, not weeks'' to show progress in complying with the terms of the ceasefire.
April 21, 2004 - While U.S. Marines stand ready inside Fallujah, anti-coalition forces continue to attack in defiance of a ceasefire agreement. The city is a hotbed of anti- coalition activity, and has been since the U.S. troops entered the area in April last year.
April 21, 2004 - Iraqi officials say more than 60 people, including many children, were killed Wednesday, in a series of explosions in or near the southern city of Basra.
April 20, 2004 - Amidst mortar attacks, fire fights at the front gate, drive-by shootings, and the ever-present danger of Improvised Explosive Devices, a team of the 75th Division (Training Support) is training hundreds of soldiers of the Iraqi Armed Forces.
April 20, 2004 - Another member of the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq has announced it is pulling its troops out of the country.
April 19, 2004 - U.S., coalition and Iraqi officials have agreed ''to implement a full and unbroken cease-fire'' in the city of Fallujah. The agreement, Senor told reporters at a press briefing, was reached over a series of meetings over the past several days.
April 19, 2004 - The Pentagon appears firmly settled on a new course of involvement in Africa - a decision accelerated by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
April 19, 2004 - arms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades have been collected for destruction by the 1st Cavalry Division in a program that exchanges money for weapons and information.
April 19, 2004 - Since the inception of online Internet auction sites, collectors worldwide have been able to find exactly what they are looking for. Now, servicemembers have joined the collectible craze with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service pogs.
April 17, 2004 - President Bush used his weekly radio address to call for the extension of a controversial anti-terrorism law. His presumptive Democratic challenger in this year's election criticized the president's handling of Iraq.
April 16, 2004 - Further military action may be necessary in the city of Fallujah, where despite a cease-fire and strained negotiations, insurgents still are shooting at Marines, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during an April 15 news conference in Baghdad.
April 15, 2004 - About 20,000 soldiers now in Iraq and Kuwait will serve at least 90 days past their originally scheduled tours of duty
April 14, 2004 - The Italian government has confirmed the execution of one of the Italian hostages in Iraq. Confirmation was given by Foreign Minister Franco Frattini during a late Wednesday night talk show on state television.
April 13, 2004 - U.S. military forces are being repositioned in the vicinity of the holy Iraqi city of Najaf because of the significant threat posed by the cleric Muqtada al Sadr and his militia.
April 13, 2004 - At least 30 civilians of various nationalities have been kidnapped in Iraq in recent days. Military experts in the Middle East see the taking of hostages as a tactic aimed at gaining negotiating leverage.
April 13, 2004 - In the opening statement to his news conference late Tuesday, President Bush said America and its allies must not waver in their commitment to help bring about a political transition in Iraq.
April 12, 2004 - It has been a year since Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dave Williams’ Longbow Apache was shot down, and pictures of the bullet-riddled helicopter were broadcast on television internationally.
April 12, 2004 - More civilians in Iraq have been reported missing or captured by gunmen in what has become a rash of abductions of foreigners from nations taking part in the U.S.-led occupation.
April 10, 2004 - More than 60 anti-coalition insurgents have been captured over the past few days, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said. Most are Iraqis, but the detainees include people holding passports from Egypt, Syria and Sudan, he added.
April 09, 2004 - Coalition forces today unilaterally suspended offensive operations in Fallujah, Iraq, at the request of the Iraqi Governing Council, officials in Baghdad reported.
April 08, 2004 - U.S. forces will remain in Iraq as long as necessary to bring peace and stability to Iraq according to the commanding generals of the U.S. Central Command and Task Force 1st Armored Division.
April 08, 2004 - Senior U.S. officials decided to focus on the al Qaeda-Taliban connection in Afghanistan rather than on Iraq shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
April 08, 2004 - Iraqi insurgents have kidnapped three Japanese civilians and are threatening to kill them unless Japan withdraws its troops from Iraq. Japan says there is no reason to pull its forces out of Iraq.
April 07, 2004 - Marines battling enemy forces in Iraq pushed into the city after several days of violent and deadly clashes.
April 07, 2004 - Marines in Fallujah, Iraq, used air support today to break through the wall of a mosque complex that insurgents were using to fire on them, a U.S. Central Command news release reported.
April 07, 2004 - White House National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies Thursday before a commission investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
April 07, 2004 - U.S. officials in Baghdad today vowed to defeat insurgents and restore order in Iraq after a third day of countrywide attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces.
April 06, 2004 - With increased U.S. Marine deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is stepping up fundraising so it can honor its pledge to award scholarships to all children of Marines killed in combat during the war on terror.
April 06, 2004 - U.S. military officials say as many as a dozen Marines may have been killed when Iraqi insurgents attacked their position in the town of Ramadi late Tuesday.
April 05, 2004 - Recent surveys tell of broad concern that the Army faces potential challenges in retaining Soldiers when their enlistments are up.
April 05, 2004 - An Iraqi judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in connection with the murder last year of a rival Shi'ite cleric.
April 04, 2004 - U.S. forces in Iraq say seven American soldiers have been killed and more than two dozen wounded in clashes with Shi'ite Muslim militiamen in Baghdad.
April 04, 2004 - Spanish and Salvadoran troops in Najaf came under attack from gunmen hiding in a crowd of protesters, coalition officials said in Baghdad today.
April 01, 2004 - U.S. officials in Iraq says Wednesday's gruesome attacks on four American civilians whose burned bodies were put on display in the town of Fallujah will not go unpunished. The U.S. military is threatening to deliver an overwhelming military response.
March 31, 2004 - In Iraq, five U.S. soldiers and four American civilians working for the U.S.-led military coalition have been killed in a day of violent attacks Wednesday. The bodies of the American civilians were burned and put on display by a crowd in Fallujah.
March 30, 2004 - Jeffrey Wershow became a National Guard icon in March, because he died in Iraq last July.
March 30, 2004 - The White House says National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify in public under oath before the commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks. It is a big reversal for the Bush administration.
March 29, 2004 - In what has become almost a nightly ritual, soldiers from A Troop, 1st Squadron, 5th Cavalry Regiment, lined up their vehicles on a quiet side street in the sleepy town of Abu Ghuraib, Iraq.
March 28, 2004 - Controversy continues to surround the work of the independent commission set up by Congress to investigate the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
March 26, 2004 - They’re back now. The soldiers from the Florida Army National Guard’s three infantry battalions are home and the sands of a Southwest Asia desert are rapidly becoming a distant memory.
March 25, 2004 - During a week when America's attention was riveted on hearings into the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington hosted a foreign leader whose country has withstood more than 30 years of horrific terrorist violence.
March 25, 2004 - Military working dogs play an integral role in the safety and security of Marines on Station. The canines are cross-trained for patrol work and narcotics or bomb-detection, said Sgt. Robert Bowker, Station kennel master.
March 25, 2004 - Soldiers benefiting from technological wonders like the Otto Bock microprocessor C-Leg knee unit or the myoelectric Utah 3 arm marvel not only at the existence of the devices, but that they are receiving such top-shelf products.
March 24, 2004 - The top U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer has marked the start of a 100-day countdown to the handover of power to a provisional government by announcing the establishment of new institutions to fight corruption and safeguard national security.
March 24, 2004 - A new monument under construction at Fort Campbell, Ky., will honor soldiers who have served in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) throughout its history, including those who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq in support of the war on terror.
March 22, 2004 - Violence continues in Iraq, and coalition forces continue their efforts to kill or capture enemies of the coalition and the Iraqi people.
March 22, 2004 - The White House is taking issue with a new book by a former top national security official that is highly critical of the Bush administration's handling of the war on terror.
March 18, 2004 - US congressional investigators estimate that Saddam Hussein's regime received more than $10.1 billion in illegal revenues related to the United Nations' oil-for-food program from 1997 to 2002.
March 17, 2004 - Through the course of liberating Iraq, female Soldiers have conducted air missions, kicked down doors, disarmed mines and shed their own blood. Sixteen female Soldiers have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
March 17, 2004 - As many as 29 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion that heavily damaged a hotel in downtown Baghdad Wednesday night, in what appears to be another in a series of attacks by insurgents against civilians.
March 17, 2004 - Saddam Hussein's presumed possession of weapons of mass destruction was a key rationale for the war in Iraq. Did the weapons not exist, as some have suggested? Or were they destroyed before the war, as others believe?
March 15, 2004 - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the National Training Center and Fort Irwin March 12 to speak to Soldiers of the California National Guard deploying to Iraq.
March 13, 2004 - The Coalition Provisional Authority announced a new policy today to tighten border security in Iraq, an effort officials say will help stem the flow of terrorists and foreign fighters entering the country.
March 11, 2004 - The UN Security Council March 11 unanimously condemned the bomb attacks in Madrid and urged all states to cooperate actively in efforts to find and bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attack.
March 11, 2004 - The death toll has risen to at least 190 after a series of bombs placed on rush hour trains in Madrid Thursday. More than 1,200 are injured.
March 09, 2004 - The head of the Central Intelligence Agency says he does not believe the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. CIA Director George Tenet appeared before a Senate panel Tuesday.
March 05, 2004 - In a March 3 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee subcommittee on projection forces, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley said the Air Force must continue to maintain its deep-strike capability.
March 05, 2004 - A little-known parasite that causes chronic, festering sores will be returning home with some of Operation Iraqi Freedom's warfighters.
March 04, 2004 - While self defense forces have previously conducted humanitarian deployments to other locations in the world, this is the first time Japanese airmen have deployed to a conflict zone since the end of World War II.
March 03, 2004 - A Department of Defense program helps deployed troops tuck up to $10,000 of their income away and earn a guaranteed 10 percent interest on their savings annually.
March 03, 2004 - s a way to say thank you to the men and women in the armed forces for serving their country, the Navy Exchange Service Command now has ''Gifts From the Homefront'' gift certificates available for purchase.
March 02, 2004 - At least 143 Iraqis were killed in terrorist attacks today in Baghdad and Karbala. Suicide bombers attacked Shiia Muslims as they observed Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiia calendar.
March 01, 2004 - A federally-funded program designed to find union jobs in the construction industry for people with military experience, including members of the National Guard and Reserves, has swung into its second year following a successful first year.
February 27, 2004 - With an increase in improvised explosive devices being used by insurgents in Iraq against American convoys, the 1st Force Service Support Group is squeezing in some last-minute training to spin up Marines before they roll out.
February 26, 2004 - The surgeon general of the Army told Congress that there is no correlation between the anti-malaria drug Lariam and a recent spike in suicides in combat zones.
February 25, 2004 - The Defense Department's senior personnel official assured Senate Armed Services Committee members that the military would get to the bottom of allegations that scores of female service members were sexually assaulted during overseas deployments.
February 24, 2004 - Protecting an entire military post from enemy attack is a job that military police offices from the 143rd Military Police Company and their Iraqi Civil Defense Corps colleagues take very seriously.
February 24, 2004 - A money savvy servicemember serving in Iraq did not wait to get back home to buy a shiny new car with his $30,000 military re-enlistment bonus. Instead, he invested all of it into the Thrift Savings Plan.
February 22, 2004 - Coalition and Iraqi security forces rounded up several terrorist targets during overnight raids, including a former mayor of Tikrit and a cousin of Saddam Hussein suspected of providing false passports for individuals crossing the Iraq-Syria border.
February 21, 2004 - A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross says one of its teams has visited ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in U.S. custody, in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
February 19, 2004 - Secretary General Kofi Annan February 19 said direct elections cannot be held in Iraq before the Coalition Provisional Authority transfers sovereignty to Iraqis June 30.
February 19, 2004 - Humvee production in February has ramped up from 25 to 30 vehicles daily at an AM General factory in order to meet the US Army demand in Iraq and Afghanistan.
February 18, 2004 - A car bomb attack early Wednesday at a coalition military base south of Baghdad killed at least 11 Iraqi civilians and injured eight foreign soldiers. The wounded soldiers are from Poland, Hungary and the United States.
February 14, 2004 - It is different when a National Guard unit deploys. While the Guard and reserves have been stalwarts in the war of terror, most of the units deployed have been in the combat service and combat service support areas.
February 10, 2004 - Another fugitive featured in the deck of 55 playing cards signifying the ''most wanted'' members of Saddam Hussein's regime is in coalition custody.
February 10, 2004 - Witnesses and local medical personnel say some 50 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in the blast in town of Iskandariya, about 50 kilometers south of the Iraqi capital.
February 09, 2004 - From the buffalo soldier of wars past to the KC-135R Stratotanker pilot of today supporting the war on terrorism, blacks have and continue to play a large role supporting the U.S. military.
February 08, 2004 - President Bush has again defended his decision to invade Iraq - this time in an hour-long interview on American television, in which he said he was right to launch military action to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
February 08, 2004 - President Bush said he is a ''war president,'' and he makes every foreign policy decision with that in mind.
February 05, 2004 - the Defense Department provides a travel entitlement for service members and their families in serious medical emergencies, the Fisher House Foundation is hoping to help those service members and families not covered under the rule.
February 05, 2004 - Multi-service special operations troops have led the way to victory in overseas campaigns during the war against terrorism.
February 03, 2004 - President Bush has proposed a $2.4 trillion budget for the fiscal year beginning in October 1 (FY05) that would boost defense, homeland security and international assistance spending.
February 02, 2004 - Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan watched the game in the wee hours this morning Troops west of the continental United States celebrated or mourned the game's result over their Feb. 1 dinner.
February 01, 2004 - Witnesses in Irbil say one suicide bomber blew himself up in a meeting hall of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and another detonated his explosives across town at the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
January 31, 2004 - A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers who were part of a convoy between Tikrit and Kirkuk in Iraq today, and a suicide bomber struck an Iraqi police station in Mosul, killing nine people and injuring at least 45 others.
January 30, 2004 - U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez says the recent capture on the Iran-Iraq border of a courier linked to 9-11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed reinforces ongoing assertions that ''al-Qaeda fingerprints'' are visible in Iraq.
January 30, 2004 - Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Castles are offering a free dinner for two for all Soldiers redeploying from Afghanistan and Iraq or on rest & recuperation leave from Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.
January 30, 2004 - U.S. Army aviation assets will help kickoff America's most-watched annual sporting event Feb. 1, when four Apache helicopters fly over Reliant Stadium in Houston prior to Super Bowl XXXVIII.
January 29, 2004 - The Army will grow to 510,000 soldiers over the next four years as a temporary measure.In the next four months, an official said, the Army will move 220,000 soldiers into and out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
January 27, 2004 - President Bush, in remarks to reporters as he sat down for talks in the Oval Office with Poland's President's Kwasniewski, said he feels certain that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power was the right thing to do.
January 27, 2004 - Coalition officials in Baghdad expressed strong support today for a United Nations plan to send a team to evaluate the feasibility of holding direct elections before June 30.
January 26, 2004 - The outgoing chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq says it is not likely that any large stockpiles of banned weapons will be found in Iraq. Mr. Kay has blamed intelligence failures for what he now says is the mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein had WMDs.
January 24, 2004 - A car bomb attack in the central Iraqi town of Khaldiya has killed at least three American soldiers and injured another six. Several Iraqi civilians were also wounded in the explosion.
January 22, 2004 - During a stop in Roswell, New Mexico Thursday, the president revealed he will ask Congress for a substantial increase in funding for homeland security.
January 22, 2004 - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and another was injured in a Jan. 21 mortar and rocket attack on a 4th Infantry Division base near Baqubah, Iraq.
January 20, 2004 - President Bush delivered the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress at the Capitol Tuesday night. ''America this evening is a Nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them.''
January 20, 2004 - Deploying in harm’s way for the second time in two years, the first contingent of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade departed for Iraq from Pope Air Force Base, N.C., January 15.
January 19, 2004 - A senior Coalition Provisional Authority official today announced an $18 billion jobs and reconstruction program for Iraq that aims to create 50,000 jobs by the June 30 handover of sovereignty.
January 18, 2004 - An explosives-laden truck exploded shortly after 8 a.m. during Sunday's morning rush hour near the entrance to the headquarters. At least 20 people were killed, and at least 60 more were injured. Officials believe most of the dead were Iraqi citizens.
January 17, 2004 - A roadside bomb exploded Saturday morning north of Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqis. Two other American soldiers were wounded in the ambush.
January 14, 2004 - Senator Kennedy says the Bush administration came to office determined to find a rationale for ousting former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
January 13, 2004 - Soldiers from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment capitalized on a month of hard work as they executed Operation Market Sweep, becoming the first Coalition troops to successfully penetrate the weapons market in downtown Fallujah.
January 11, 2004 - A former U.S. cabinet official says in a new book that President Bush was looking at plans to remove former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from the start of the Bush presidency in 2001, before the September 11 attacks.
January 08, 2004 - Bitter cold and pre-dawn exhaustion did not deter the crowd waiting with signs, flags and smiles for the first flight of 101st Airborne Division Soldiers returning from Iraq.
January 08, 2004 - Secretary of State Colin Powell said it was incontrovertible that the former Iraqi regime led by Saddam Hussein had used weapons of mass destruction and had every intention of developing them further.
January 08, 2004 - U.S. officials in Iraq say an American military helicopter has gone down near the town of Fallujah, killing all nine people on board. The military says the Black Hawk helicopter was on a medical evacuation mission when it made an emergency landing.
January 07, 2004 - Hundreds of Iraqis detained by the coalition will be released as part of a reconciliation effort. The first 100 nonviolent detainees are eligible to be released Jan. 8.
January 07, 2004 - US officials say 35 American troops were wounded Wednesday in a mortar attack west of Baghdad. They say six mortar rounds hit a U.S. military base. Officials say the soldiers were given first aid and evacuated from the base for further medical treatment.
January 06, 2004 - When he was forced to fashion statues of Saddam Hussein on horseback, the Iraqi sculptor, Kalat, had no idea that someday he would melt them down to create a memorial for American Soldiers.
January 06, 2004 - Under the latest Stop Loss iteration, 7,000 Soldiers will be required to stay in the theater for the duration of their unit's deployment and up to a maximum of 90 days after the redeployment.
January 05, 2004 - The new year brings new hope for families of the more than 88,000 Americans who are still missing from World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the 1991 Gulf War.
January 05, 2004 - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says British troops will remain in Iraq for years after a planned transfer of power to Iraqis.
January 04, 2004 - Coalition Provisional Authority and military officials in Baghdad, Iraq, today showed reporters a video as proof that coalition and Iraqi security forces took extra care not to desecrate the holy site during a raid of a mosque Jan. 1.
January 03, 2004 - The U.S. military in Iraq says three American soldiers were killed on Friday. Two died when a bomb was detonated near their patrol south of Baghdad. Another soldier was killed in a mortar attack near the town of Balad, north of the capital.
January 02, 2004 - Coalition forces led by Iraqi Civil Defense Corps personnel and Iraqi police seized a weapons cache and detained 32 people at the Umm al Tabul Mosque.
January 02, 2004 - A senior U.S. military official says that U.S. and Iraqi soldiers took great care to use the least amount of force necessary and to preserve the sanctity of the al-Tabul Mosque during a raid in southwestern Baghdad January 1.
January 01, 2004 - With the pull of a lever, 23,000 pounds of thrust slows the forty-seven foot long aircraft to a complete halt over the Lake Michigan shoreline. For the Marine Corps’ AV-8B Harrier, it’s all in a days work.
December 31, 2003 - While the US Army All-American Bowl will show off the talents of 78 of the nation’s top high school football players, it will also showcase five-time Grammy award winner Alicia Keys and Soldiers decorated for their service in Operations Enduring Freedom.
December 30, 2003 - Officials in New York are taking unprecedented steps to protect revelers celebrating New Year's Eve in New York's Times Square, as the United States remains on a heightened state of alert for a possible terrorist attack.
December 30, 2003 - During a press briefing today at the front gate of the hospital, Maryland Rep. C.A. ''Dutch'' Ruppersberger handed 680 free airline tickets to David Coker, executive director and vice president of operations at the Fisher House Foundation.
December 26, 2003 - Four soldiers were killed in operations in Iraq and another was killed in an accident Dec. 24 to 26, coalition officials announced.
December 24, 2003 - Attackers in Iraq have fired a mortar round at a Baghdad hotel largely occupied by Western journalists and contractors. There are conflicting reports about whether it struck the hotel.
December 24, 2003 - 2003 will most certainly be remembered as the year Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq was forcefully brought to an end.
December 24, 2003 - Department of Defense officials and lawyers with the Justice Department are examining a decision handed down by a federal judge that ordered DOD to stop anthrax vaccinations for U.S. servicemembers without their consent.
December 23, 2003 - For the second time since it started conferring the honor in 1927, Time magazine has selected the American Soldier as its Person of the Year.
December 22, 2003 - The heightened security alert in the United States is not related to the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said coalition administrator Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III.
December 20, 2003 - The American presence here has helped thwart at least three and possibly as many as 10 terrorist attacks in the Horn of Africa region, said Marine Brig. Gen. Mastin Robeson, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa.
December 20, 2003 - President Bush says Libya has agreed to destroy all of its chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons. The surprise announcement follows nine months of secret talks between Libyan, American, and British officials.
December 19, 2003 - Regular Army Soldiers who re-enlist in the Central Command area of responsibility this fiscal year are now eligible for a lump-sum bonus of about $5,000 and the bonus is also retroactive for Soldiers who re-enlisted from Oct. 1 until now.
December 18, 2003 - More than 80 Soldiers who participated in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom will be honored as war heroes at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio’s Alamodome.
December 18, 2003 - citizens are volunteering in record numbers to serve in the country's new security services since the Dec. 13 capture of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, with the largest concentration of volunteers coming from the area around Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.
December 17, 2003 - Defense Department-led effort to quickly deliver new technologies to the warfighter is making life easier -- and, more importantly, safer -- for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
December 17, 2003 - South Korea's government has finalized plans to send another 3,000 troops to Iraq. While Japan is still working out deployment details amid growing security concerns.
December 17, 2003 - An apparent car bomb has exploded in Baghdad. Iraqi police tell VOA the blast killed at least 12 people and wounded many more.
December 16, 2003 - The Central Intelligence Agency will oversee the interrogations of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Pentagon reporters today.
December 16, 2003 - Reports from Israel say the Israeli military had developed a plan to assassinate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in retaliation for Iraqi missile attacks on the Jewish state in the 1991 Gulf War.
December 16, 2003 - US military officials say coalition forces have seized a rebel leader and at least 77 others in a raid in central Iraq.
December 16, 2003 - More than 85,000 toys, 878 bicycles and 20 scooters were distributed Dec. 12 to the Boys and Girls Club of El Paso, Texas, by Soldiers of the 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade.
December 15, 2003 - Secretary of State Colin Powell underwent surgery for prostate cancer December 15 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and is expected to resume his normal duties early in the new year.
December 15, 2003 - The United States will assist Iraqis in developing a process to bring captured former dictator Saddam Hussein to justice for his crimes, President Bush told reporters today.
December 15, 2003 - There was cautious enthusiasm at Kirkuk Air Base the afternoon of Dec. 14 when rumors began floating that Saddam Hussein, the Ace of Spades in the ''55 Most Wanted'' deck of cards, might have been captured.
December 14, 2003 - Operation ''Red Dawn'' was launched after gaining actionable intelligence identifying two likely locations near the town of Ad Dwar. The First Brigade Combat team of the 4th ID was assigned the mission to capture or kill Saddam Hussein.
December 14, 2003 - With three words -- ''We got him'' – Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III announced at a press briefing in Baghdad today that U.S. forces had captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit.
December 14, 2003 - News reports in Iraq say former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been arrested in his hometown, Tikrit. The ousted leader is said to have been taken into custody during an overnight raid carried out by the U.S. military in Tikrit.
December 13, 2003 - President Bush says the Pentagon is investigating whether a subsidiary of a company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney overcharged the government for work it performed in Iraq.
December 11, 2003 - Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown and Root, a long-time supplier of logistical support for the military, may have overpriced fuel provided to the Iraqi people by as much as $61 million, according to defense contract auditors.
December 11, 2003 - With about 140,000 American service members due to rotate out of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command officials are very clear that service members cannot bring home weapons, ammunition and other prohibited items.
December 04, 2003 - The Japanese government says it wants to help reconstruct Iraq, but did not confirm media reports that Tokyo will endorse a plan to dispatch troops as early as next week.
December 04, 2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has called on NATO to take on a greater role in the post-war stabilization of Iraq. His call came during a closed-door meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
December 03, 2003 - Andy Carroll is founder and director of the Legacy Project, whose mission is ''to honor and remember Americas veterans and personnel on active duty through their own words – the letters they wrote home in times of war.''
December 01, 2003 - In Iraq, the U.S. military gave the first detailed account of Sunday's massive firefight between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents in the central city of Samarra.
December 01, 2003 - Iraq and Afghanistan may be the center of the military and media’s attention these days, but the United States will not abandon Bosnia, the chief of the National Guard Bureau vowed to that Balkan nation’s people during Thanksgiving week.
November 30, 2003 - The U.S. military in Iraq says its troops have repelled several attempted ambushes on Sunday, killing 46 Iraqis, wounding 18, and capturing another eight in the town of Samarra, near Tikrit.
November 29, 2003 - Seven Spanish intelligence agents have been killed and one wounded in Iraq in an attack on their convoy on a road south of Baghdad. Saturday's guerilla-style attack occurred on a highway 30 kilometers south of Baghdad.
November 29, 2003 - During the past 24 hours, the 82nd Airborne Division and subordinate units have conducted 19 offensive operations, including 16 raids and three cordon and searches.
November 27, 2003 - President Bush stunned U.S. soldiers in Iraq Thursday when he appeared for a Thanksgiving dinner for some of the troops at the Baghdad Airport. Mr. Bush's trip was a closely kept secret and not made public, until he was on his way back to the US.
November 26, 2003 - 145,000 pounds of turkey. 71,000 pounds of smoked hams. 71,000 pounds of prime rib. 38,000 pounds of shrimp. 576,000 servings of stuffing. 270,000 servings of corn on the cob. 150,000 servings of cranberry jelly. 41,000 pies – apple, pumpkin, cherry ...
November 26, 2003 - U.S. soldiers in Iraq have arrested the wife and daughter of one of Saddam Hussein's closest aides, who is suspected of orchestrating attacks on American troops.
November 25, 2003 - Military people in world hotspots might soon tell where people shooting at them are located by using technology Defense Department and Air Force researchers are developing.
November 24, 2003 - U.S. casualties in Iraq may be suffering a greater share of brain injuries than in previous wars, causing concern among military doctors.
November 24, 2003 - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and seven others were injured Nov. 23 when their helicopter crashed near Bagram, Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command officials said.
November 23, 2003 - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in two separate incidents, as anti-coalition insurgents continue to target troops and Iraqis working for the coalition.
November 23, 2003 - Baghdad International Airport was closed to all civilian traffic after a DHL cargo aircraft was hit by surface-to-air missiles Nov. 22, coalition officials said during a press conference today in Baghdad, Iraq.
November 22, 2003 - At least 18 Iraqis were killed and dozens wounded Saturday in car bombings outside two police stations in and near the town of Baqubah, 65 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. A civilian cargo plane may have been hit by a surface-to-air missile.
November 21, 2003 - Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers says the danger of terrorism today ''is the greatest threat we've ever faced'' and failure is not an option.
November 21, 2003 - Unconventional rocket attacks that struck the Iraqi oil ministry and two hotels in Baghdad today indicate insurgents' increasing difficulty in carrying out assaults against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, according to a senior U.S. military officer.
November 20, 2003 - Enemy attacks against the coalition in and around Baghdad have dropped by 70 percent since Operation Iron Hammer began.
November 20, 2003 - The project is an effort which began two years ago by Congress to preserve the stories and memories of America's war veterans.
November 19, 2003 - Soldiers assigned to units that have been selected to participate in the second rotation of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the fifth rotation of Operation Enduring will not be allowed to voluntarily leave the Army or change duty stations.
November 17, 2003 - Military and civilian personnel continue to place restricted items capable of destroying life and property into packages mailed home from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan, theater postal officials said.
November 17, 2003 - The United Service Organizations recently announced it has teamed up with Armed Forces Entertainment and Reader's Digest to help support U.S. troops during the 2003 holiday season.
November 16, 2003 - The U.S. military in Iraq says hostile fire may have been responsible for the crash of two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday. Seventeen soldiers were killed in the crash, which was thought to be an accidene.
November 14, 2003 - To bolster force protection, the general public is urged not to send unsolicited mail, care packages or donations to service members forward deployed unless you are a family member, loved one or personal friend.
November 14, 2003 - The U.S. military in Iraq says an Apache attack helicopter in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit killed seven insurgents preparing to fire rockets at an American military base.
November 13, 2003 - Twenty-four personnel suspected of violence against U.S. forces in northern Iraq were captured Nov. 12 in a series of raids by the 101st Airborne Division.
November 11, 2003 - The American commander of ground forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, says the U.S. military is trying to determine the presence of the al-Qaida terrorist network in Iraq.
November 10, 2003 - Operation Continuing Freedom, Jordan's cultural awareness course for American soldiers, kicked off recently to prepare soldiers for Iraq.
November 10, 2003 - Coalition personnel conducted raids Sunday in and around Baghdad, Iraq, and detained 18 men suspected of taking part in the Oct. 26 Al Rasheed Hotel missile attack, a Pentagon spokesman said.
November 07, 2003 - At least six U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash Friday in northern Iraq and U.S. troops in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul were ambushed Friday morning.
November 06, 2003 - About 112,000 service members -- including more than 37,000 National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers -- should be headed to Iraq and Kuwait early next year to replace the forces already on the ground.
November 06, 2003 - ''I took this photo with the purpose of giving it to my father for his retirement ceremony after 40 years in the government,
November 04, 2003 - Acts of heroism, community service and deeds that exemplify Army values can be found on the Army Web site's newest feature, ''Soldier Stories.''
November 03, 2003 - U.S. military personnel have begun hauling away the wreckage of the helicopter shot down Sunday in Iraq. It is believed the helicopter was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Such missiles remain a significant threat to coalition aircraft.
November 03, 2003 - With the holiday season right around the corner, officials at the Defense Commissary Agency are encouraging the American public to show its support for U.S. service members through its highly successful ''Gift of Groceries'' program.
November 02, 2003 - In response to news of a U.S. helicopter being downed in Iraq today, killing 15 soldiers and injuring 21, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said, ''It was a bad day, a bad day, a tragic day for those people.''
November 02, 2003 - At least 15 people were killed and many others injured when a U.S. Army helicopter was shot down Sunday west of Baghdad.
November 01, 2003 - Two American soldiers have been killed in northern Iraq, and Iraqis in Baghdad fear there will be a new wave of attacks sometime in the next few days.
October 31, 2003 - Intelligence officials say no one knows for certain who is behind the upsurge in terrorist attacks in Iraq. But there are a number of theories, including the possible involvement of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
October 31, 2003 - A scheduling mistake that stranded an Air Force photographer overnight in the Al Rasheed Hotel lobby in Baghdad made him an eyewitness to the rocket attack that killed one soldier and injured 15 others Oct. 26.
October 28, 2003 - Being in a hospital can be miserable and frightening for children. But, with the help of a soldier in Iraq and generous Americans in the United States, smiles were abundant at a children's hospital in Baghdad.
October 27, 2003 - Scores of people have been killed and injured in several early morning bomb blasts in Baghdad. Three explosions rocked Baghdad Monday morning, the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
October 26, 2003 - A U.S. military spokesman said six to eight rockets struck the west side of the hotel between the second and 10th floors at about 6:10 a.m. local time. One U.S. soldier was killed in the attack and 15 people were wounded.
October 25, 2003 - A U.S. army helicopter crashed Saturday near Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Hours earlier, a top U.S. official was in Tikrit to inspect an Iraqi defense training facility.
October 24, 2003 - A published report said a U.S. Senate panel is preparing a report blaming intelligence agencies for overstating the threat posed by deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
October 24, 2003 - International donors gathered in Madrid have pledged $33 billion in aid and loans over the next four years to help rebuild war-torn Iraq. The response to a U.S.-led lobbying effort to elicit contributions exceeded expectations.
October 22, 2003 - What was the date of my promotion? Did I get my hazardous duty pay for going to Iraq? How much was it? Those are among the questions that military people frequently ask those who maintain their personnel and pay records.
October 22, 2003 - Far from being a glum assessment, a memo Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent to senior leaders poses questions Rumsfeld believes leaders should be asking about the new security environment.
October 22, 2003 - ''A very, very detailed'' look at units will be done before an undetermined number of them are told to pack their bags for a year-long deployment in Iraq, said Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
October 21, 2003 - A parasitic disease being spread by sand flies in Iraq has prompted officials who oversee the military's blood supply to implement a one-year donor deferral for military personnel serving in that country.
October 17, 2003 - When a rocket-propelled grenade collided with his light armored vehicle, being called a hero and receiving national recognition were the furthest things from Sgt. Michael A. Simmons' mind.
October 17, 2003 - Troops are taking to the streets of Saddam Hussein’s hometown to uncover a web of bank rollers, leaders, and organizers of insurgent groups responsible for hit-and-run attacks on coalition forces.
October 17, 2003 - Three American soldiers were killed and four wounded during a gun battle late Thursday south of Baghdad. Two Iraqi police officers were also killed and five wounded in the attack.
October 15, 2003 - The director of the Iraqi currency exchange for the Coalition Provisional Authority called the first day of the currency exchange in Iraq a great success that begins the country's move toward sustainable economic growth.
October 14, 2003 - Nine U.S. service members have died since Oct. 9 in seven separate incidents in Iraq, U.S. Central Command officials said.
October 13, 2003 - EU foreign ministers have approved a more than $230 million reconstruction aid package for Iraq, before next week's donors' conference in Spain.
October 12, 2003 - The first soldiers to return home from Iraq for rest and recuperation leave checked in at Baltimore-Washington International Airport here today to return to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
October 10, 2003 - The Army's new Stryker armored vehicles are headed for their first operational assignment -- service in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
October 10, 2003 - Two more American soldiers have been killed and at least four more have been wounded in what the Pentagon is describing as an ambush in Baghdad late Thursday.
October 08, 2003 - The House of Representatives' International Relations Committee overwhelmingly approved legislation October 8 that would impose limited sanctions against Syria.
October 08, 2003 - Service members and eligible Department of Defense civilians leaving Iraq for a little ''rest and recuperation'' can purchase discounted non-restricted tickets for their travel home through an office set up in Kuwait.
October 06, 2003 - Enemy forces are moving away from small-unit infantry attacks against coalition forces. Regime holdouts are moving toward more hit-and-run attacks, using improvised explosive devices, mortars or rocket-propelled grenades.
October 02, 2003 - Coalition soldiers relinquished security and guarding responsibilities of Objective Jaguar, an ammo supply point, to the soldiers from Delta Company, part of the Iraq Civil Defense Corps in a relief in place ceremony Wednesday.
September 26, 2003 - Nineteen al-Qaida terrorists are among some 248 foreign fighters that have been captured by U.S. forces after infiltrating Iraq, says Ambassador Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
September 26, 2003 - The first 192 troops to return to the states under the Operation Iraqi Freedom ''Rest and Recuperation'' Leave Program arrived at BWI Airport today. While the group was homogenous in their desert camouflage uniforms, their directions were varied.
September 25, 2003 - Addressing the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee angrily rejected a Kashmir truce offer by Pakistan.
September 24, 2003 - There have been two more bombings in Iraq, leaving at least three people killed and 28 wounded. Authorities say a bomb exploded in a movie theater while it was reportedly showing a pornographic film Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul.
September 24, 2003 - The last Marine battalion in southern Iraq is finally returning home. For the Marines of 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, the news that they will return to 29 Palms, California at the end of September was almost too good to be true.
September 22, 2003 - An Iraqi policeman and the suicide bomber were killed Monday and at least a dozen others were injured in the bombing. The attack is raising questions within the U.N. about whether it can continue working safely in the country.
September 21, 2003 - The Coalition Provisional Authority is building a new army for Iraq that will be a non-political, professional force for national unity, says Walter Slocombe, the Coalition's Special Advisor on Security and Defense, speaking at a Pentagon news briefing.
September 21, 2003 - Special agents with the 323rd Military Police Detachment, Criminal Investigation Command, unearthed the skeletal remains of two people during a mass graves exploitation detail in a decimated Republican Guard military compound.
September 20, 2003 - A woman member of Iraq's governing council has been shot and seriously wounded in an apparent assassination attempt in Baghdad. Akila al-Hashimi is undergoing treatment at a U.S. Army hospital.
September 19, 2003 - The top U.S. administrator in Iraq, in a newspaper interview, has accused Iranian agents of aiding groups carrying out attacks in Iraq and hampering reconstruction efforts.
September 19, 2003 - The former Iraqi defense minister has reportedly surrendered to U.S. military officials in the northern Kurdish city of Mosul. A mediator says the former general, Sultan Hashim Ahmad, has been promised special treatment.
September 17, 2003 - The first battalion of the new Iraqi army should finish training the first week of October, according to the senior adviser for security sector and defense affairs to the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq.
September 16, 2003 - Former Army General Wesley Clark is expected to announce Wednesday that he is joining the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates looking to challenge President Bush next year in the 2004 race for the White House.
September 11, 2003 - The War on Terror battlefields are littered with reserve-component troops who wept at ground zero Sept. 11, 2001, but are now spending the second anniversary in theaters of operation.
September 10, 2003 - President Bush leads the nation Thursday in solemn ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
September 10, 2003 - The Arab TV station al-Jazeera has aired what it says is a new videotape of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his top aide Ayman al-Zawahiri.
September 06, 2003 - ''Hell yeah I get scared,'' said Pfc. Jaorge Cabrera, mortarman, on the way out to an evening patrol here last weekend. ''Every night when we go out there in the open I think, ‘Wow, this is real’.''
September 05, 2003 - U.S. pilots and maintainers arrived in Poland Sept. 4 for an operation placing them with, and pitting them against, the world’s foremost fighter aircraft.
August 29, 2003 - In Iraq, at least 75 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a car bombing in the city of Najaf. A senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohamed Baqer al-Hakim, has died in the attack.
August 27, 2003 - Despite predictions to the contrary, Americans are continuing to volunteer for the military, and those already in service are re- enlisting at a vigorous rate.
August 27, 2003 - Dr. Leonard Wong, associate research professor at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute said the paper Why They Fight: Combat Motivation in the Iraq validated the popular belief that unit cohesion is a key issue in motivating soldiers.
August 25, 2003 - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is rejecting calls by some prominent members of Congress for more troops to be sent to Iraq, saying U.S. force levels there now are adequate.
August 24, 2003 - A team of experts in military medicine and health communication at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences here launched a new health education campaign today -- 'Courage to Care.'
August 23, 2003 - President Bush is condemning this week's suicide bombings in Baghdad and Jerusalem, saying there will be no retreat in the war on terrorism.
August 23, 2003 - British military officials in Iraq say three British soldiers have been killed in southern Iraq. Officials say the three British soldiers died and another was wounded in the southern city of Basra.
August 21, 2003 - Iraq's Gen. Ali Hassan al- Majid, the infamous ''Chemical Ali,'' has been captured and is in the custody of coalition forces, according to a U.S. Central Command news release.
August 21, 2003 - The National Football League and Operation Tribute to Freedom are inviting soldiers and their families to a free season-opening kick-off concert on the National Mall at 6 p.m. Sept. 4.
August 20, 2003 - The attacks on U.S. and coalition forces are coming from a mixture of ''different elements,'' Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said during an interview with National Public Radio.
August 19, 2003 - The United Nations says its chief representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, has died in the bomb-damaged wreckage of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.
August 17, 2003 - Officials in Iraq say a second fire has erupted on a key pipeline carrying oil to Turkey. There was also an apparent attack on the Baghdad water supply.
August 12, 2003 - One U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry soldier was killed and two were injured today in Iraq when their convoy encountered three improvised bombs, according to a U.S. Central Command news release.
August 07, 2003 - USS Constellation was decommissioned Aug. 6 after 41 years, nine months and 11 days of naval service in a ceremony at Naval Air Station North Island.
August 06, 2003 - American forces have found Russian fighter jets buried in the Iraqi desert, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an Aug. 5 press briefing.
August 06, 2003 - Nuclear experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency are holding talks in Tehran this week, aimed at gaining greater access to Iran's nuclear facilities.
August 05, 2003 - The 3,200 active duty and Reserve personnel of the Medical Service Corps celebrated 56 years of dedicated and committed service to Navy medicine on Aug. 4.
July 30, 2003 - Secretary of State Colin Powell has authorized payment of a $30 million reward to the individual who provided the tip-off that led U.S. forces to the hiding place of the two sons of Saddam Hussein two weeks ago.
July 27, 2003 - Saddam Hussein is on the lam and if he is still in Iraq the United Sates will get him, said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, yesterday.
July 27, 2003 - U.S. special forces soldiers hunting Saddam Hussein carried out a bloody operation in central Baghdad Sunday, but without any sign of the ousted Iraqi dictator.
July 26, 2003 - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq Saturday. The attacks overshadow the capture of several men believed to be deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's bodyguards.
July 24, 2003 - Releasing photographs of the brothers' bodies was not a decision he made lightly, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believes the Iraqi people deserve proof that their longtime tormenters are really gone.
July 23, 2003 - Marines of 2nd Platoon, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines joined other elements of the battalion in a group of patrols aimed at finding stockpiles of weapons and Ba'ath Party loyalists that present a continued threat to peace in Karbala.
July 22, 2003 - U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch received a hero's welcome in her native West Virginia Tuesday. Private Lynch became perhaps the most famous American soldier involved in the Iraq war after she was taken prisoner and later rescued by U.S. commandos.
July 22, 2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday were killed today in a ''fierce gun battle,'' U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, announced at a news briefing in Baghdad.
July 20, 2003 - Two U.S. soldiers are dead following a guerrilla ambush on their convoy in northern Iraq. Elsewhere, an Iraqi driver was killed and at least one relief worker was wounded in a separate attack on an aid convoy.
July 20, 2003 - An Iraqi militia is being formed to assist U.S. and coalition forces in rooting out and destroying Saddam loyalists who've been attacking coalition forces and obstructing reconstruction efforts.
July 18, 2003 - U.S. Ambassador says intervention is justified in Liberia because, as a failed state, Liberia could serve as a terrorist ''breeding ground'' and platform for attacks on America as well as the rest of the world.
July 18, 2003 - In coming weeks, congressional reports will be released dealing with the quality of information produced by U.S. intelligence agencies. One report is the result of joint House and Senate investigation into the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
July 17, 2003 - Brothers Kevin and Pat Tillman, both members of the 75th Ranger Regiment, were presented with a distinctive award July 16 during the 2003 ESPY Awards on ESPN.
July 17, 2003 - Army released a 15-page report today stating that members of the 507th Maintenance Company fought the best they could in Iraq until there was no longer a means to resist.
July 17, 2003 - Another audiotape, purported to be the voice of Saddam Hussein, has aired on Arab-language television on the anniversary of the 1968 Baathist revolution that brought Saddam's party to power. Meanwhile, U.S. troops are on heightened alert.
July 16, 2003 - An American soldier was killed in an attack on a convoy west of Baghdad today. Three other soldiers were wounded in the attack.
July 16, 2003 - U.S. and coalition forces are facing organized opposition by Baathist remnants throughout Iraq, U.S. Army Gen. John Abizaid told reporters at the Pentagon July 16.
July 12, 2003 - Applause resounded through the chow hall as Marines, soldiers, and sailors got their first glimpse of a legendary screen Marine who had come to express his gratitude and support for all the troops involved with Operation Iraqi Freedom.
July 11, 2003 - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is blaming the CIA for not correcting claims that President Bush made about Iraq's pursuit of nuclear weapons, that turned out to be based on forged documents.
July 10, 2003 - The general who led U.S. forces to victory in Iraq has acknowledged American troops may need to remain in that country for several more years.
July 09, 2003 - President Bush defended his use of prewar intelligence as justification for the Iraq war, saying he is ''absolutely confident'' about his actions.
July 09, 2003 - The U.S. military says it has taken two more of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis into custody. The men are former officials in the regime of Saddam Hussein.
July 08, 2003 - Gen. John P. Abizaid assumed command of U.S. Central Command from Gen. Tommy R. Franks July 7 during a ceremony at the St. Pete Times Forum in downtown Tampa.
July 07, 2003 - Two Americans died yesterday following attacks and another died as a result of an explosion early this morning. All three were members of the 1st Armored Division and all the attacks took place in Baghdad.
July 05, 2003 - An explosion outside an Iraqi police training facility has killed at least seven Iraqis and wounded dozens of others in the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
July 05, 2003 - A total of 16 soldiers were wounded in a mortar attack against a logistics post near Balad, Iraq, July 3, U.S. Central Command officials said, Saturday.
July 03, 2003 - In the main courthouse where many judicial records were burned by looters, the interim judiciary system is facing a number of challenges head-on with the help of Marine and Army forces.
July 03, 2003 - At least 10 American soldiers have been wounded in three separate attacks in Iraq. Meanwhile, a protest north of Baghdad turned deadly, when a grenade exploded in the crowd.
July 01, 2003 - An explosion at a mosque in the Iraqi city of Fallujah has increased tensions between residents of the city and American forces. Many residents believe the blast was caused by a U.S. airstrike.
June 30, 2003 - On the banks of the Euphrates River, a region that was once the center of Jewish culture and study, Jewish Marines and soldiers got a rare chance to celebrate the Sabbath with one of only three military Rabbis' in theater.
June 26, 2003 - With the number of coalition casualties climbing in Iraq, U.S. forces are continuing a massive sweep north and west of Baghdad designed to crackdown on Iraqis responsible for the violence.
June 26, 2003 - An Iraqi driver was killed and an unknown number of people wounded in an attack on an Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority vehicle near Baghdad International Airport.
June 24, 2003 - Six British soldiers were killed and eight others injured in attacks in southern Iraq. In other clashes west of Baghdad, at least three Iraqis were killed and one U.S. soldier was wounded.
June 24, 2003 - Coalition personnel are making progress in Iraq, but the recent deaths of American and British soldiers show the world is still engaged in a dangerous war against terrorism.
June 23, 2003 - A senior U.S. defense official has confirmed coalition forces attacked a convoy fleeing Iraq, amid news reports that Saddam Hussein or other top leaders in his former regime may have been in the vehicles.
June 20, 2003 - They're reservists. But, contrary to the historical precedent set by their predeccessors, they didn't linger behind front-line troops when Operation Iraqi Freedom kicked off.
June 19, 2003 - One 804th Medical Brigade soldier was killed and two injured today during a rocket- propelled grenade assault on a military ambulance that occurred north of Camp Dogwood in the town of al Iskandariyah, U.S. Central Command reported today.
June 18, 2003 - The 4th Infantry Division confiscated $8.5 million U.S. dollars and between 300 and 400 million Iraqi dinar from two separate farmhouses during a raid today, said Army Maj. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, 4th Infantry Division commander.
June 18, 2003 - The U.S. military says it has captured Abid Hamid Mahmud, the number four man on the most wanted list of Iraqis. Mr. Mahmud was the personal secretary for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
June 18, 2003 - In the next several weeks, the Combined Weapons Effectiveness Assessment Team will visit several hundred sites to assess the accuracy and precision of weapons used by coalition aircraft during the operation.
June 17, 2003 - For three decades, America's armed forces have served on a solely volunteer basis. The nation is about to mark the 30th anniversary of the All-Volunteer Force.
June 13, 2003 - U.S. military officials say troops killed 27 armed fighters after an ambush in central Iraq, north of Baghdad. The officials made no mention of American casualties.
June 12, 2003 - U.S. forces have arrested hundreds of Iraqis in a bid to end guerrilla attacks on U.S. troops. The military operation is the biggest in Iraq since the war ended.
June 10, 2003 - It may not look like the armor used by warriors in the many science fiction films we see, but the Small Arms Protective Inserts did their job my stopping small arms fire that would have certainly wounded and killed Marines in combat.
June 09, 2003 - U.S. military medical personnel treated the more than 20 German peacekeepers injured in the June 7 suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to a Coalition Joint Task Force 180 press release.
June 07, 2003 - For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, United Nations nuclear inspectors are back in Baghdad. The inspectors went to work Saturday trying to determine if nuclear material may have been stolen from a nuclear research facility.
June 04, 2003 - A senior Defense Department official has rejected suggestions the Pentagon manipulated intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs and its links to terrorism to justify a war.
June 02, 2003 - A group of U.S. congressmen has returned from a visit to North Korea and they say officials there admitted having nuclear weapons. A top U.S. defense official says the admission means a way must be found to verifiably end North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
May 30, 2003 - A significant expansion of effort in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction will begin to take hold in Iraq in coming days, DoD officials said today.
May 30, 2003 - Recognizing that Air Force reservists must balance military obligations with family and civilian-employment requirements, the service’s senior reservist pledged to reduce unnecessary pressures.
May 29, 2003 - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he still believes coalition forces in Iraq will eventually find clear evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs.
May 28, 2003 - Nearly 59 years after his P-38 Lightning aircraft was shot down, ''Ironman'' pilot Carl Hoenshell's remains returned home. His family buried him with full military honors in his hometown of Owosso, Michigan.
May 27, 2003 - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said May 27 that the United States continues to have concerns about Iran developing nuclear weapons and harboring terrorists.
May 27, 2003 - It was a little over 1.5 years ago that Afghan forces, backed by U.S. firepower, dislodged the Taleban in Afghanistan. But analysts say recent hit-and-run attacks indicate the Taleban are trying to regroup.
May 27, 2003 - One U.S. Army soldier was killed and seven injured during a May 27 firefight with hostile forces near Fallujah, according to a U.S. Central Command press release.
May 26, 2003 - ''God is crying too,'' said 4-year-old Robert as he and his family participated in the Memorial Day ceremonies here today. Robert was one of thousands who sat through the rain to honor the men and women who have died in defense of the United States.
May 22, 2003 - National Guard leaders from the 54 states and U.S. territories supported the chief of the National Guard Bureau's initiative for transforming their organization into a force of ''modern Minutemen that is more responsive for the American people.''
May 22, 2003 - The United Nations this morning lifted sanctions against Iraq following a 14-0 vote in the Security Council.
May 21, 2003 - The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote Thursday on a draft resolution that not only lifts sanctions but also defines the powers of the U.S. and British led coalition in Iraq and clarifies the role of United Nations in reconstruction.
May 20, 2003 - The national terror alert level has been hiked today from elevated "yellow" to high "orange" based on intelligence reports that al Qaeda terrorists may attempt to again strike the United States or target Americans abroad.
May 19, 2003 - Following a meeting today with the Philippine president, President Bush announced the United States will designate the Philippines as a major non-NATO ally, smoothing the road to military cooperation.
May 17, 2003 - Conan O'Brien's unruly red mop may not meet military regulations, but the comedian's unruly behavior met with howls and cheers from Marines he visited Friday.
May 17, 2003 - Another mass grave site has been found in Iraq. An Iraqi group opposed to Saddam Hussein says as many as 600 Kuwaiti prisoners of war killed in 1991 could be buried there.
May 15, 2003 - Gray skies underscored a somber mood gripping more than 1,100 mourners attending a memorial service here Tuesday for four fallen 1st Force Service Support Group Marines who served in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
May 14, 2003 - Infantrymen of the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team found a suspected mobile bio-lab at the Al Kindi Rocket and Missile Research and Development Center, the largest such complex in Iraq.
May 13, 2003 - Three suicide bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 12 were a ''well-planned terrorist attack,'' Secretary of State Colin Powell said today while touring some of the damaged areas.
May 12, 2003 - It once was the largest zoo in the Middle East. The Baghdad Zoo had more than 600 animals before March 19. Today, it has six.
May 09, 2003 - Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Air Force Gen. Richard Myers and his wife, Mary Jo, expressed gratitude today for a $1 million corporate donation for scholarships for spouses and children of U.S. and coalition personnel killed during Operation Iraqi Freedo
May 09, 2003 - In the northern Arabian Gulf, the last of Comfort’s patients were transferred to medical facilities ashore this week, as the ship prepares to go home.
May 08, 2003 - Seven thousand captured Iraqis have been released from the American internment facility at Umm Qasr, officials there said today. Roughly 2,000 remain captive.
May 08, 2003 - President Bush said the United States, Great Britain and Spain will introduce a resolution in the Security Council to lift sanctions on Iraq imposed after Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
May 07, 2003 - In Operation Iraqi Freedom, Carrier Air Wing 3’s own Chaplain Alan Wilmot, an Alabama native, led the ready rooms in prayer at each brief and was an ever-present sight on the flight deck as its aviators launched into combat.
May 07, 2003 - A new audio tape, purported to be Saddam Hussein exhorting Iraqis to reject the presence of U.S. forces, has surfaced. It is the first alleged tape by the former Iraqi leader since he was ousted from power last month.
May 06, 2003 - The faces of Saddam Hussein's defeated regime on the now-famous ''most wanted'' card deck have become ever familiar with more than 1 million decks printed and sold. The faces of the cards' creators, however, were a mystery, until now, that is.
May 05, 2003 - As a new day dawned in the Arabian Gulf May 2, there was a sense of guarded optimism for Sailors and Marines here about President Bush’s recent nationally televised speech to the nation from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
May 04, 2003 - The Army's 716th Military Police Battalion, alongside 1st Marine Division Marines and Iraqi police, has been keeping the streets of Iraq safe and secure so those walking on those streets can breathe the breath of freedom without fear.
May 04, 2003 - ''Hey, Mister! Hey, Mister! Hello! Hello!'' These are kids shouting and running alongside Humvees carrying members of Direct Support Team 2 of the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion through Baghdad's streets.
May 03, 2003 - Secretary of State Colin Powell held talks with leaders of Syria and Lebanon Saturday before returning to Washington as he began a period of intensive diplomacy in support of the international roadmap for Middle East peace.
May 02, 2003 - Near the stone-age village of Mulayfaht, where cuneiform symbols were in use as many as 7,000 years ago, a pair of modern military bridges have begun making life easier for the Iraqi people.
May 02, 2003 - Major combat operations in Iraq are over, and America and her allies have prevailed, President George W. Bush said May 1 on the flight deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.
May 02, 2003 - Three senior U.S. government officials agreed that humanitarian efforts to renew and restore Iraq have gone well so far, and movement will continue to return Iraq to the Iraqi people.
May 01, 2003 - Seven countries - Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan - were again listed as state sponsors of terrorism, though Iraq may soon come off the list.
April 30, 2003 - The Iraqi lawyer who led American Marines to prisoner of war Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch has been granted asylum and is safe in the United States with his family.
April 30, 2003 - Making sense of the carnage of war is of course no easy task, so for some, immersion in the work at hand meant not having to dwell on war’s resulting injuries. There has been ample opportunity to stay busy.
April 29, 2003 - Every Sailor aboard USS Kitty Hawk is serving his or her country in one way, shape or form. But some are also serving in not so obvious ways. These silent warriors are the walking blood donors necessary for the ship to maintain emergency readiness.
April 28, 2003 - The number of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region will drop as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today.
April 27, 2003 - ESPN established the ''Jocks to GIs Direct'' e-mail-based, one-to-one pen pal program between professional athletes, coaches and military personnel in the Middle East and other overseas locations.
April 26, 2003 - A series of massive explosions at an ammunition dump in Baghdad has killed and injured dozens of people in a residential area.
April 25, 2003 - One American service member was killed and five injured in an attack this morning in Afghanistan. About 20 enemy fighters attacked an American platoon that was responding to a report of suspicious activity east of Fire Base Shkin.
April 25, 2003 - In an interview with U.S. television Thursday, Mr. Bush recalled an airstrike in Baghdad at the start of the war that targeted the Iraqi leader. An agent on the ground who was watching reported, in Bush's words, that it ''felt like we got Saddam.''
April 25, 2003 - The man who for years had been perhaps the most visible symbol of Saddam Hussein's regime, former foreign minister and later deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, has surrendered to U.S. led forces in Iraq.
April 24, 2003 - Americans wishing to show their support to U.S. Army soldiers serving in support of Operation Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom and their families can now make contributions of ''Gifts From the Homefront'' to a service member or family member.
April 24, 2003 - After dropping 3.2 million pounds of explosives and 9 million leaflets during 120 combat sorties, more than 1,000 airmen are packing up and going home from this forward-operating location.
April 22, 2003 - The ''Packbot,'' robot has been used in Iraq to search buildings for enemy soldiers and examine equipment left behind by retreating Iraqi forces.
April 22, 2003 - The coalition has trumped the Queen of Spades in the Iraqi most-wanted deck. Muhammad Hamza Zubaydi, a former prime minister and member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraq, is in coalition custody.
April 21, 2003 - When Army Pvt. Fernando Gonzalez heard that professional wrestlers ''Bradshaw'' and ''Faarooq'' were visiting Walter Reed Army Medical Center recently, he got excited and asked for them to visit his hospital room.
April 20, 2003 - Most Iraqis lived frugally, especially during the past 12 years of U.N. sanctions. But Saddam Hussein, his family and close associates lived like kings. U.S. soldiers have discovered stacks of American currency, totaling more than $650 million.
April 20, 2003 - Darryl Worley gave a 45-minute concert at the Pentagon for several hundred servicemembers, civilian employees and family members April 16. The show was broadcast live to troops overseas, and an audio webcast now also is available.
April 18, 2003 - Tax relief and special pay for service members involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom have expanded.
April 18, 2003 - United States and coalition forces accepted the surrender of the first enemy general in Operation Iraqi Freedom when the commander of all armed forces in the western district of Iraq capitulated in Ar Ramedi.
April 17, 2003 - Coalition special operations forces captured Saddam Hussein's half-brother during a raid in Baghdad last night, U.S. Central Command officials said during a briefing from Qatar today.
April 17, 2003 - The United States is intensifying the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, where sporadic fighting continues. Meanwhile, the ongoing effort by U.S. forces to round-up former Iraqi regime leaders nets the second of Saddam's three half-brothers.
April 17, 2003 - The ''Dambusters'' of Strike Fighter Squadron 195 and Carrier Air Wing 5 said a final farewell to Lt. Nathan ''O.J.'' White April 16, during a memorial service held on the flight deck of USS Kitty Hawk.
April 17, 2003 - Some aircraft credited with delivering overwhelming military capability to coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom are now distributing food, supplies and medical care to the people of Iraq.
April 16, 2003 - U.S. troops have raided the Baghdad residence of an Iraqi scientist believed to have been in charge of a secret biological laboratory.
April 16, 2003 - U.S. officials announce the capture of a major Palestinian terrorist in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Meanwhile, U.S. forces have shut down a pipeline used for illegal oil shipments from Iraq to Syria.
April 16, 2003 - Even though hostilities in Iraq appear to be winding down, airmen who fly combat missions over that war-torn nation say their job is not finished yet.
April 15, 2003 - On a tip from an Iraqi official, Marine with D Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, dashed through sniper fire on the streets of Samarra, Iraq.
April 14, 2003 - The White House April 14 called Syria a ''rogue nation'' and a "terrorist state," and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer reiterated President Bush's warning that ''Syria needs to cooperate.''
April 14, 2003 - .S. troops are clearing out the remaining pockets of resistance in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown. U.S. forces now occupy the center of Tikrit, including the presidential palace.
April 14, 2003 - Marines encountered sporadic resistance as they moved into Tikrit today, U.S. Central Command officials said this morning during a press conference in Qatar.
April 14, 2003 - South Korean officials say the fall of Iraq's Saddam Hussein might have prompted North Korea to shift its position regarding talks about its nuclear programs.
April 13, 2003 - U.S. marines trying to help neighborhoods get police and hospital services back up and running find themselves helping Iraqis to clear their schools, hospitals, and even their backyards of weapons left there by Iraqi troops.
April 13, 2003 - DoD officials identified the seven American prisoners of war found in northern Iraq today as five members of the 507th Maintenance Company and two Apache helicopter pilots.
April 12, 2003 - Coalition forces in Iraq are using a specially created deck of 55 playing cards to identify the ''most wanted'' members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
April 12, 2003 - Although combat continues in a number of areas in Iraq, coalition efforts to increase humanitarian assistance are becoming more important, according to U.S. Central Command officials.
April 11, 2003 - Signs of the disintegration of Saddam Hussein's regime abound in Iraq, U.S. Central Command officials said in a briefing in Qatar today.
April 11, 2003 - The State Department said Thursday it has been told by Syria that it is closing its border with Iraq to all but humanitarian traffic. This follows charges by the Bush administration that Syria may have allowed arms and Arab volunteers across its border.
April 10, 2003 - They're intimately familiar with Iraqi language and culture, they wear distinctive uniforms, they serve with U.S. civil affairs troops in Iraq -- and they don't like Saddam Hussein. Who are these guys?
April 10, 2003 - U.S. troops in Baghdad continue to encounter pockets of resistance from fighters loyal to Saddam Hussein, one day after the collapse of the regime in the capital.
April 10, 2003 - Coalition aircraft predominantly use either JDAMs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) or Laser-Guided Bombs (LGB) that literally fly conventional 500, 1,000 or 2,000 pound bombs to a target. The result is accurate bombing that minimizes civilian casualties.
April 09, 2003 - A U.S. Air Force combat search and rescue team saved the lives of two critically wounded U.S. Army special operations soldiers despite severe weather conditions April 7 about five miles south of Baghdad.
April 09, 2003 - Two American airmen have been missing since their F-15E Strike Eagle went down in Iraq April 6, U.S. military officials in Saudi Arabia said.
April 09, 2003 - Baghdad is a city of wildly contrasting images, dancing in the streets in some neighborhoods, while intense firefights continue in others.
April 08, 2003 - An Air Force B-1 Lancer crew rode an ''adrenaline rush'' as they prepared to strike a recently discovered target of opportunity believed to be the site of a high-level Iraqi leadership meeting April 7.
April 08, 2003 - More than 90 members of the press arrived at LRMC April 2 to attend a news conference with three injured Marines. Each Marine gave a brief account of how he was injured in battle and the circumstances surrounding his experience.
April 08, 2003 - Coalition forces targeted ''senior regime officials'' in a strike in the Baghdad suburb of al Mansour April 7, a U.S. Central Command official said during a briefing in Qatar today.
April 08, 2003 - VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu is with US forces at the Baghdad airport and describes Monday's incursion into Baghdad by U.S. troops to Al Pessin in VOA London bureau.
April 07, 2003 - Shortly after a small group of Iraqi civilians led Co. D to an abandoned Iraqi training camp, the unit's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical expert detected what was thought to be nerve gas and sounded the alarm, ''gas, gas, gas.''
April 07, 2003 - The requests are pouring into the forward office of Task Force Warrior in Kuwait. A typical message will state, ''Request 3 Free Iraqi Forces with expertise in Basra region...''
April 07, 2003 - President Bush prepares to hold talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair Monday on the postwar future of Iraq. Meanwhile, coalition troops have ratcheted up the pressure on Baghdad and the country's second largest city, Basra.
April 06, 2003 - U.S. military combat action in Baghdad yesterday may have inflicted thousands of casualties on the enemy, a senior U.S. Central Command spokesperson said today.
April 05, 2003 - The special operations mission to rescue Army Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch from Iraqi captivity was a triumph of joint planning and execution, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart.
April 05, 2003 - Deafening explosions rocked the Iraqi capital in the early morning hours of Sunday, and artillery fire was reported on the southwestern edge of the city.
April 04, 2003 - Pfc. Jessica Lynch has undergone several successful surgeries since being rescued by coalition forces, and her doctors believe she will continue to improve through extensive rehabilitative services.
April 04, 2003 - New heroes have surfaced in the rescue of U.S. Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch. As her captors discussed amputating her leg, an Iraqi man leaned to her ear and whispered, ''don't worry.'' Lynch replied with a warm smile.
April 04, 2003 - Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, during a news conference in Qatar, said Army 5th Corps forces took the airport after heavy fighting. He said the airport will now be the ''gateway to the future of Iraq.''
April 04, 2003 - U.S. troops have occupied most of Baghdad's international airport and are continuing to advance on Saddam Hussein's seat of power. But it remains unclear how soon a full scale offensive on the Iraqi capital would be launched.
April 03, 2003 - Senior Iraqi officials are disputing reports that coalition forces are near the capital of Baghdad. They also say coalition forces control no Iraqi city or town.
April 03, 2003 - Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, defense officials have pointed out the Iraqi regime's policy of consistently ignoring the laws of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions.
April 02, 2003 - The 3rd Infantry Division (Mech.) engaged in heavy fighting today with the Republican Guard's Medina Division near Karbala, Iraq, and some U.S. elements reportedly advanced to within 25 miles of Baghdad.
April 02, 2003 - With divisions divided and divisions destroyed, April is off to a bad start for Iraq's famed Republican Guard.
April 02, 2003 - Central Command deputy operations director, Brigadier General Vince Brooks, announced early Wednesday that U.S. special forces rescued an American soldier who had been captured by the Iraqis.
April 01, 2003 - It's Day 12 of ''Where's Saddam?'' Since Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, and other senior DoD officials have noted that no one has seen Saddam Hussein since the operation to open the war.
April 01, 2003 - The warriors of 1st Marine Division slowed their advance toward Baghdad to reenergize and take care of personal needs during the last few days of March.
April 01, 2003 - Shortly after touching down on deck, the S-3B malfunctioned while taxiing on the carrier’s flight deck and slid to the port side of the deck. The plane went over the side and hit flight deck safety netting, with the pilots aboard ejecting into the water.
April 01, 2003 - British troops in southern Iraq have begun trading their helmets for berets, and officials said it is helping them win the trust of the local population.
March 31, 2003 - The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division says the Republican Guards have attempted to use women and children as human shields.
March 31, 2003 - American and coalition troops in Iraq will be watchful to mitigate any further enemy suicide attack attempts, the U.S. military's top officer recently told British interviewer David Frost.
March 31, 2003 - The sight of bloodied, bandaged Marines laying on flimsy, green cots in southern Iraq was a disheartening scene, March 27. But the wounded wouldn't let their misfortune get them down.
March 31, 2003 - British artillery and coalition aircraft destroyed a column of Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles early March 27, British Air Marshal Brian Burridge said at a press briefing.
March 30, 2003 - Army Gen. Tommy Franks said coalition forces are not ''paused'' and are not suffering from a lack of supplies.
March 30, 2003 - Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday outside a café in Israel, wounding up to 30 people.
March 30, 2003 - The United States has launched new bomb and missile strikes on Baghdad. Meanwhile, the embattled Iraqi government has turned to unconventional means, including suicide bombings, in its bid to thwart the progress of coalition forces towards the capital.
March 29, 2003 - At least 200 Ba'ath members and paramilitary leaders affiliated with the Hussein regime were killed in the night attacks, which occurred northeast of Basra.
March 29, 2003 - A pair of Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles attacked a Ba'ath Party headquarters building in southern Iraq on March 28, where some 200 leaders of the Iraqi
March 29, 2003 - Iraq is denying allegations by coalition officials that Iraqi soldiers are disguising themselves as civilians. Meanwhile, Iran and Syria have strongly denied charges by a top U.S. official that they are getting involved in the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
March 29, 2003 - A suicide bomber in central Iraq has killed four American soldiers as coalition warplanes continue to pound Baghdad. Officials say a taxi stopped at a checkpoint on the highway north of Najaf and waved for help. When soldiers approached the car exploded.
March 29, 2003 - The remains of American troops have been discovered in southern Iraq near where paramilitary forces loyal to Saddam Hussein have been accused by the Pentagon of executing U.S. service members after they'd surrendered.
March 28, 2003 - Training. Teamwork. Focus. Pride. That is how the commander of the largest airborne mission since 1990's Operation Just Cause sums up the aerial delivery of 1,000 members of the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade into northern Iraq on March 26.
March 28, 2003 - The Iraqi capital of Baghdad came under heavy bombardment Friday with coalition warplanes targeting communications facilities and Republican Guard units poised to defend the city from a ground attack.
March 28, 2003 - An Iraqi missile attack and the detection of biological agents March 27 had the U.S.-led, multi-nation task force, whose mission is to respond to biological and chemical attacks here, believing they would be called into action.
March 27, 2003 - The United States has absolutely no desire to stay in Iraq any longer than necessary, the U.S. military's senior officer told the Arab world today.
March 27, 2003 - While the ground troops making their way toward Baghdad struggled against blinding sandstorms March 25, the same weather patterns affected CVW-3 aviators, as they catapulted from the flight deck and soared into hostile skies.
March 27, 2003 - An ambush, rockets flying through the air, and civilians who turned out to be Iraqi troops. It's all part of a hair-raising account of the battle as told by three wounded U.S. soldiers who were attacked near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
March 27, 2003 - Coalition air forces struck repeatedly at Iraqi Republican Guard formations March 26, defense officials said. Coalition aircraft flew about 1,500 sorties with about 600 strikes on that day.
March 26, 2003 - U.S. forces have found 3,000 Iraqi chemical protective suits at an An Nasiriyah hospital, which gives war planners an indication that Saddam Hussein's regime is preparing to use banned chemical weapons against coalition forces.
March 26, 2003 - Armored columns of the 3rd Infantry Division roared hundreds of kilometers toward Baghdad securing an airfield at Jalibah, exchanging fire outside Al Samawa, and capturing about 250 enemy soldiers.
March 26, 2003 - More than 141,000 members of the Army and Air National Guard were mobilized, placed on alert or identified for possible mobilization by March 24, five days after Operation Iraqi Freedom began.
March 26, 2003 - The Pentagon is reporting several hundred Iraqis forces have been killed after U.S. troops came under fierce attack south of Baghdad Tuesday.
March 26, 2003 - U.S. Navy and Air Force assets teamed together to conduct a successful nautical strike March 21, as a fast-attack Iraqi patrol boat in the Arabian Gulf was targeted and sunk by precision-guided ordnance.
March 26, 2003 - VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu is with the Army's Third Infantry Division near Baghdad in Central Iraq. London Bureau Editor Kevin Lynch spoke to her by satellite phone about activities overnight and early in the day.
March 25, 2003 - United States and international relief workers are poised to enter the Umm Qasr port to address acute shortages of public drinking water and unsafe sanitary conditions in southern Iraq, particularly in the city of Basra to the northwest.
March 25, 2003 - The White House said it has ''credible evidence'' that Russia has sold sensitive military equipment to Iraq in violation of a U.N. embargo. U.S. President George W. Bush telephoned Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss the alleged sales.
March 25, 2003 - U.S. led coalition forces have advanced to positions 80 kilometers from Baghdad as coalition warplanes target installations in Baghdad of Iraq's elite Republican Guards. Despite the advance, the U.S. led forces continue to meet pockets of resistance.
March 24, 2003 - In the midst of making final preparations to move into Iraq, the soldiers of 1st Brigade put the war on hold for a bit this morning at Camp New Jersey, Kuwait, to pay their final respects to the first Screaming Eagle to fall in this campaign.
March 24, 2003 - Baghdad has been battered overnight by bombs and missiles, as coalition ground forces continue to advance toward the Iraqi capital. The air strikes follow a day that American officials are calling the most difficult since the war began five days ago.
March 24, 2003 - To bolster force protection, the general public is urged not to send unsolicited mail, care packages or donations to service members forward deployed unless you are a family member, loved one or personal friend.
March 24, 2003 - As many as ten American Marines were reported killed and another 12 Americans soldiers are listed as missing, believed to have been taken hostage or killed by Iraqi forces in a tough day of fighting for the coalition
March 23, 2003 - Iraqi television videotape purports to show U.S. service members captured by Iraqi forces. Al Jazeera – a satellite news network based out of Doha, Qatar – broadcast the tape.
March 23, 2003 - As Day 3 in the war against Saddam Hussein's regime came to an end, one thing seemed to be missing - the regular wailing of alarms warning troops in Kuwait of inbound Iraqi missiles.
March 22, 2003 - Cultural tensions have often flared between these two proud nations, with Americans and French both accusing the other of arrogance. But anti-French feelings across America are taking on a sharper edge.
March 22, 2003 - U.S. troops yesterday attacked a terrorist complex located in northern Iraq, Army Gen. Tommy Franks said.
March 21, 2003 - Coalition forces have begun a massive air campaign against Iraq, pounding military targets in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities after the apparent failure of efforts to force Saddam Hussein's government to relinquish power without a fight.
March 21, 2003 - About 700 coalition aircraft flew missions against more than 100 targets. The strikes flew even as planners in the area attempted to determine the results of the strikes against the Iraqi leadership the day before.
March 21, 2003 - The death toll in the crash of a Marine CH-46 helicopter March 20 was reduced overnight to 12 by U.S. Central Command officials.
March 21, 2003 - U.S. military officials are reporting the first combat fatality of the fighting in Iraq. President Bush was told the news at his morning briefing on the battle to topple Iraq's government and disarm the military.
March 20, 2003 - Iraq has fired surface-to- surface missiles at U.S. forces based in Kuwait, DoD officials said this morning.
March 20, 2003 - The Pentagon is assessing the damage from its initial strikes against targets in Iraq, as hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Persian Gulf region remain poised to launch a invasion of the country.
March 19, 2003 - In an address to the nation Wednesday night: ''My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.''
March 19, 2003 - Operations to disarm Iraq have begun, President Bush announced during a speech to America tonight. The president confirmed the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world.
March 19, 2003 - U.S.-led coalition aircraft have carried out a series of strikes in southern and western Iraq but the Pentagon indicates these do not mark the start of an all-out attack.
March 19, 2003 - In what may be the few remaining hours before missiles and bombs begin raining down on Iraq, the country's capital has reportedly become very quiet. Observers in Baghdad say the usual hustle and bustle of the city is all but gone.
March 19, 2003 - With President Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq fast approaching, coalition aircraft dropped almost 2 million leaflets over Iraq March 19, U.S. Central Command officials said.
March 18, 2003 - President Bush delivered an ultimatum that Saddam Hussein and his sons have 48 hours to leave Iraq.
March 18, 2003 - While the United States grows closer to war with Iraq, elements of the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C., sharpen their skills on what was once the battlefield of Operation Desert Storm.
March 17, 2003 - President Bush will address the world tonight and issue a final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Bush will speak on ''the situation as we now see it.''
March 16, 2003 - Israel says it will retaliate if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launches an attack against the Jewish state during any U.S.-led military strike against Iraq.
March 16, 2003 - Cheney said there's no question that the United States is close to the end of diplomatic efforts.
March 14, 2003 - President Bush will meet with the leaders of Britain and Spain on Sunday to discuss their efforts to pass a U.N. resolution to disarm Iraq. The meeting is to take place in Portugal's Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic.
March 09, 2003 - The window for Saddam Hussein to disarm peacefully ''is closing rapidly,'' Secretary of State Colin Powell said this morning.
March 09, 2003 - Bulldozers continued to crush banned Al-Samoud 2 missiles in Iraq Sunday. In neighboring Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, a senior official suggested Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein resign.
March 05, 2003 - France has indicated it will use its veto power to kill any United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Russia has also raised the possibility of a veto.
March 05, 2003 - Turkey's top general on Wednesday has thrown his support behind a bill authorizing the deployment of thousands of U.S. combat troops in Turkey. General Hilmi Ozkok said approval of the bill would be in Turkey's interest.
March 03, 2003 - U.N. officials say Baghdad has agreed to submit a detailed report on the alleged destruction of its stocks of anthrax and VX nerve agent. The announcement comes on the heels of an Iraqi warning that it may stop destroying its al-Samoud 2 missiles.
March 01, 2003 - The Defense Department announced the final approval of the Global War on Terrorism Medals. These medals recognize the significant contributions members of the armed forces bring to bear in combating terrorism.
February 28, 2003 - ''Iraq could have made greater efforts to find any remaining proscribed items or provide credible evidence showing the absence of such items.''
February 26, 2003 - If the United States is forced into a war with Iraq, the American public can expect ''incredibly robust coverage,'' the woman in charge of facilitating that coverage said today.
February 25, 2003 - A Black Hawk helicopter crash in the Kuwaiti desert killed four American soldiers early this morning.
February 24, 2003 - About 700 U.S. soldiers are working at Taszar Air Base, Hungary, to train up to 3,000 Free Iraqi Forces, said Army Maj. Robert Stern.
February 18, 2003 - The U.S. military buildup in the Gulf now includes the biggest concentration of American aircraft carriers in the region since the 1991 Gulf War.
February 15, 2003 - In New York, tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday to protest against a possible U.S. led war with Iraq. Correspondent Nick Simeone reports large sections of Manhattan were blocked off to ensure the protest did not get out of hand.
February 13, 2003 - Though a war with Iraq is not certain, no one doubts that it is a possibility. Israeli defense officials estimate they will be able to give a three minute warning before Iraqi Scud missiles strike Israel.
February 11, 2003 - The information that prompted national security leaders to raise the nationwide threat level to "high" last week is the ''most specific we have seen,'' Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said today.
February 10, 2003 - Iraq has approved the use of U-2 surveillance planes to help United Nations inspectors look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
February 10, 2003 - NATO officials are calling the disagreements within the alliance over whether to begin planning for Turkey's defense a crisis that could hurt the organization's credibility.
February 10, 2003 - Iraq provided some additional information to U.N. inspectors over the weekend, but not enough to answer serious questions about chemical and biological weapons materiel.
February 07, 2003 - The Bush administration has raised the nation's terrorist alert status from 'elevated' to 'high' risk. The government is warning citizens of an increasing likelihood of another attack by the al-Qaida network both inside the country and abroad.
February 06, 2003 - The chief of U.N. nuclear inspections, Mohammed ElBaradei says it is time for Baghdad to show what he called "dramatic change" in its level of cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors.
February 06, 2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has provided the United Nations with what he calls irrefutable proof that Iraq is continuing to build and hide weapons of mass destruction, while maintaining links to terrorist groups including al-Qaida.
February 06, 2003 - Newspapers in the Arab world say evidence presented to the U.N. Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell was not convincing. The region is calling for weapons inspectors to continue their search for arms of mass destruction in Iraq.
January 26, 2003 - He said in endorsing Security Council Resolution 1441, council members assumed a heavy responsibility to put their will behind their words.
January 24, 2003 - If there is a new war with Iraq, the Bush administration expects Saddam Hussein to order the destruction of his country's oil fields, creating an economic and environmental disaster.
January 19, 2003 - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington and around the world to protest a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq.
January 16, 2003 - On the 48th day of weapons inspections in Iraq, U.N. inspectors traveled to a residential neighborhood in Baghdad. The inspectors say they plan to ask the U.N. Security Council for more time to finish their search for weapons of mass destruction.
January 07, 2003 - The U.S. military is building up forces in the Persian Gulf, but that's not a sign war with Iraq is inevitable, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
December 31, 2002 - President Bush says he still hopes Iraq will give up its weapons of mass destruction voluntarily and avoid military action.
December 23, 2002 - Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is telling North Korea the U.S. military is capable of dealing with it, the Iraq crisis and the war on terrorism all at the same time.
December 23, 2002 - An American Predator unmanned aerial vehicle was assumed lost today over southern Iraq.
December 19, 2002 - Iraq's declaration that it has no weapons of mass destruction "totally fails" to meet the terms of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, Secretary of State Colin Powell said today.
December 16, 2002 - Terrorism, Iraq and North Korea were the main topics of discussions here today between senior American and Japanese officials.
December 13, 2002 - The International Atomic Energy Agency says most of the information Iraq provided on its nuclear program is more than 10-years-old.
December 04, 2002 - Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis told reporters Ankara will open air bases and other facilities to the United States. But Mr. Yakis expressed hope that war with Iraq can be avoided.
November 25, 2002 - U.S. troops and equipment have been transiting through Djibouti on their way to Kuwait, where they could be used in a new war with Iraq.
November 20, 2002 - President Bush is pressing the need for a strong, unified stand on Iraq as the leaders of NATO member countries gather in Prague for an alliance summit. But, the president says each country must make its own decision about using force to disarm Bagdad.
November 18, 2002 - United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Iraq after a four year absence to resume searches for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
November 14, 2002 - Governments throughout the Arab world and Gulf states are expressing relief and some cautious optimism following Iraq's acceptance of the U.N. Security Council resolution on weapons inspections.
November 11, 2002 - President Bush says Iraq must disarm, and dealing with the Iraqi threat is an urgent task for the United States and its allies. Mr. Bush is focusing on possible future battles as he leads Americans in observing the Veteran's Day Holiday.
November 04, 2002 - Robin Williams, comedian, movie star, TV star, comedy recording artist and theater star, visited Operation Enduring Freedom troops Oct. 18 at Kandahar Airfield on a United Services Organization sponsored visit.
October 31, 2002 - A federal judge has heard opening arguments in a lawsuit filed by some members of Congress, challenging President Bush's withdrawal of the United States last year from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
October 31, 2002 - U.S. intelligence agencies are watching for signs that North Korea may conduct a flight test of a ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States.
October 01, 2002 - Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has proven time and again he can't be trusted. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took to the podium today to point that out.
October 01, 2002 - ''I haven't made up my mind we're going to war with Iraq,'' U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday. ''I've made up my mind we need to disarm the man.''
September 30, 2002 - About 512 members of the District of Columbia National Guard mustered Sept. 27 to support metropolitan and federal police forces during the weekend's annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
September 27, 2002 - In the skies over the blue-green waters of Key West, aircraft that were once designed to destroy each other are now flying together - testing each other's capabilities.
September 20, 2002 - Recent writing on the wall about Saddam Hussein's intentions and capabilities should be enough to justify pre-emptive military action without the United States providing further evidence, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress this week.
September 18, 2002 - President Bush said Saddam Hussein's offer to let U.N. inspectors back into Iraq is "his latest ploy," and said a strong U.N. resolution was still necessary.
September 17, 2002 - The President of the United States has focused the world's attention on Iraq's continued defiance of UN resolutions. Saddam Hussein's regime claimed, once again, that Iraq would comply unconditionally.
July 23, 2002 - Rumsfeld ordered the Air Force's Office of Special Investigation to look into a leak that is the purported basis of a July 5 New York Times article on a secret war plan for an attack on Iraq.
July 04, 2002 - Security is at unprecedented levels for Fourth of July celebrations all around the country, and nowhere is it so apparent as the national celebration in Washington, D.C. Still, people should try to enjoy the holiday, Deputy Defense Secretary said.
