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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Troops in Afghanistan, Iraq mark Memorial Day
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq remembered friends and colleagues Monday in solemn Memorial Day ceremonies to commemorate all of their nation’s war dead.
Memorial Day: Honoring the fallen
After almost nine years of war in Afghanistan and more than seven in Iraq, what compels America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to return to the combat zones for a fourth, fifth or sixth time?
Memorial Day: Honoring the fallen
After almost nine years of war in Afghanistan and more than seven in Iraq, what compels America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to return to the combat zones for a fourth, fifth or sixth time?
McCain pushes for more guardsmen on border
Lawmakers and the White House are at odds over a plan that could send thousands of soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border.
33rd Rescue Squadron earns MacKay Trophy
The 33rd Rescue Squadron has been named the 2009 MacKay Trophy winner for saving the crew of a downed Air Force aircraft and three soldiers in Afghanistan.
Senate committee agrees to 1.4% pay raise
The Senate Armed Services Committee has sided with the Pentagon by providing a 1.4 percent military raise for 2011, committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., announced Friday.
Senate committee agrees to 1.4% pay raise
The Senate Armed Services Committee has sided with the Pentagon by providing a 1.4 percent military raise for 2011, committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., announced Friday.
Witness credibility questioned in sex case
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — The defense took aim at the credibility of the prosecution’s whistleblower in the third and final day of the Article 32 hearing for Chief Master Sgt. William Gurney.
Army enlistment changed in light of faker
DALLAS — The Army is instituting a new procedure for checking the backgrounds of enlistees who claim to have a military record after a report that a reservist apparently faked a background as a Marine to enter the service.
John Finn, oldest WWII MoH recipient, dies
SAN DIEGO — Retired Navy Lt. John Finn — the first American to receive the nation’s highest military award for defending sailors under a torrent of gunfire during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — died Thursday. He was 100.
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