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February 17, 2009 04:11 PM EST --
FORT LEWIS, Washington - A 16-year-old girl was found dead and another teenage girl was discovered unconscious in a barracks on this Army base south of Tacoma, the Army said Monday.
In a statement . . .
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February 18, 2009 03:02 AM EST --
THEN
On March 23, 2003, just three days after the start of the invasion, a U.S. Army supply convoy traveling through Iraq took a wrong turn and was attacked in Nasiriyah, a key town on the road to . . .
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July 05, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
IRAQI CHILD
©Robert Burnham
You didn't even know me
You weren't even from my land
You came here to fight
You left lending a hand
You covered my body
As the bullet drew . . .
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October 17, 2009 11:58 PM EDT --
I was at a monthly event today, to get a bag of groceries from a church.
Being a disabled US Army veteran can suck.
Someone there asked me if I thought serving our country was worth it, . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
Happy Birthday U.S. Army
Since its birth on June 14, 1775 – more than a year before the Declaration of Independence – the United States Army has played a vital role in the growth and development . . .
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September 30, 2009 11:35 PM EDT --
A part of this was written for a contest here. I thought I should add more. What the Army did for me, is to install steel into my backbone, and has helped me through many different problems that . . .
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January 11, 2007 01:18 PM EST --
I had never given thought to Army mascots, at least not ones on an Army base, but when I attended a retirement ceremony at Fort Sill, I got to see the Fort Sill Mascots up close.
To understand what significance . . .
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April 01, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
Our current involvement in the Middle East is hardly the first time the US Army has encountered the "ship of the desert" so common there. In fact, a creative solution to a problem of resupplying . . .
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July 03, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
The mighty US Army looks like a bunch of boyscouts, in Afghanistan, in regards to the failed "Bin Laden manhunt".
The latest technology and limitless financial resources have been the cornerstone . . .
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July 13, 2007 12:04 AM EDT --
Sunday August 19, is the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit. Even though we, the public are the ones who are profoundly affected by such decisions, . . .
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March 20, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Five years into the Iraq War, the way ahead is still the subject of great debate.
President Bush says "carry on." Critics charge the war is the worst foreign policy mistake in American . . .
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October 27, 2009 06:46 PM EDT --
As soon as I saw this first commercial for this, I knew it was about, or similar, to this one military person George Noory has on Coast to Coast a lot. Oh, I tried looking for his name, and was not able . . .
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May 21, 2009 09:28 AM EDT --
The US army in Afghanistan has burned Bibles printed in local languages, a US colonel in Afghanistan has said, amid concerns they could have been used to try to convert Afghans.
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June 11, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
As a very, very young child, I lost my father -- a combat veteran of both Theaters of WWII, the Korean War and a former "Merrill's Marauder" who was awarded three bronze stars -- to cancer. . . .
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January 12, 2008 05:04 PM EST --
I was a private first class in June of 1950 and planning to attend Seattle University, which was 60 miles from Fort Lewis. where the 2nd Division was based. The 4th Regimental Combat Team, . . .
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August 14, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
Greetings,
The combat in Afghanistan is just getting starting. Everything I see indicates that combat in 2010 will eclipse 2009 fighting. We are making progress on some fronts, . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
Twelve billion dollars a month are being spent now on the war in Iraq, and lots of blood, too. It is THE topic on Capitol Hill right now with a giant defense spending bill being debated on the Senate . . .
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December 06, 2008 02:23 PM EST --
24-0 in the 3rd quarter in the 109th playing of the Army-Navy game. :)
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June 06, 2007 12:51 PM EDT --
Now the US Troops need to protect the Kurds in Iraq from the Turkey invaders that came into Iraq.
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July 23, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have become some of the longest conflicts in U.S. history. That has meant historic challenges in filling the ranks for an all-volunteer Army.
Filling the ranks for . . .
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