Monthly Archives: June 2009

Two Air Force officers are among the nine people named Monday to become NASA astronauts.

Even as military health officials continue to say there are “no known long-term health effects” caused by open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, a team of Army doctors says a soldier’s cystic lung disease is “related to the burn … Continue reading →

NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Marines patrol slowly along streets laced with land mines and lined with abandoned shops, clinics and homes. As night falls over this Afghan ghost town, the only sounds are the howling of coyotes and the creaking … Continue reading →

Even as military health officials continue to say there are “no known long-term health effects” caused by open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, a team of Army doctors says a soldier’s cystic lung disease is “related to the burn … Continue reading →

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command has launched an ambitious yearlong course to make Marines fluent in some of the world’s most difficult languages.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The Air Force has successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean about 4,200 miles away.

KEYSER, W.Va. — More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.

BAGHDAD — Hours before the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Army Gen. David Petraeus expressed confidence Monday that Iraqi security forces are ready despite a string of deadly bombings in recent days.

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez says a U.S. general shouldn’t be raising concerns that Venezuela is buying arms, and the American commander is wrong to argue there isn’t a “conventional military threat in the region.”