Along Afghanistans porous border with Pakistan, the U.S. Army is focused on reaching out to Afghan villagers and building local institutions. Immense Mountains and abject poverty stand out as obstacles to success, but it is the human terrain that presents the greatest challenge.
In this mini-documentary, Lt. Jake Kerr Combat [...]
Army unit to return to region of deadly battle
VICENZA, Italy
The 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment is heading back to the same region where it took part in the Army’s deadliest battle in Afghanistan.
While the rest of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team is heading [...]
They had been waiting for more than 24 hours, camped out on the pavements in a frigid Michigan chill. Stepping off her bus, in four-inch heels, black skirt and red blazer, came their heroine � clutching baby Trig. A roar went up…
The U.S. Army said Friday [...]
Thanks to the dedicated staff of Capital Medical Center and the cooperation of the U.S. Army, an army sergeant stationed in Iraq was able experience the birth of his second child via the Internet using Skype, a real-time video and audio program.
The sergeant was able to communicate with his wife [...]
Ah, in typical American fashion, the contents of murderer Major Nidal Hasan’s emails to Anwar Awlaki (Yemeni-American pro-sectarian-violence blogger) are starting to trickle out.
the Blotter: United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, “I can’t wait [...]
Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” has 432 pages, and if you work for the AP you’re going to become very familiar with it. All of it. The Associate Press has assigned 11 reporters (a small army) to comb through Sarah Palin’s book and “fact check” it in its entirety.
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An 'Angel of Bataan' Dies at 95
An Owensboro, Ky., native and one of the "Angels of Bataan" died Nov. 13.
Mary Josephine Oberst, 95, had been living at the Nazareth Home of Louisville.
She was one of the more than 60 Army and Navy [...]
Staff Sgt. Dennisur Thompson
Staff Sgt. Dennisur Thompson, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, overcompensates a left turn while on a driving simulator as a part of the Save a Life Tour in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army
These brave men and [...]
German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, wearing body armour, disembarks from a plane on arrival in Kabul November 12, 2009, as he makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan to meet with military commanders and to inspect German Army, Bundeswehr, troops stationed there. Reuters
NO OBAMA VISIT to the [...]
AH-64 Gunship Takes Out IED Emplacement Team With A Hellfire Missile In Iraq.
Checking in with our troops and various images from AFGHANISTAN
Staff Sgt. Steven Dubois of Remus, MI and the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry loads a rifle magazine with ammunition at firebase Restrepo. Dubois'' [...]
The Army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralyzed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Army Paratrooper Benjamin Sherman died in Afghanistan attempting to save another Soldier. At a memorial service for Sherman on Veterans Day, his mother, Denise Sherman pleas with Obama to make an Afghanistan decision. Sherman is just one fallen Soldier of the many who have died while Obama delays any decision [...]
It was first reported that Kimberly Munley shot and brought down Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man who perpetrated the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood Army base in Texas last week. The reports mentioned she was with her partner, but never mentioned what her partner was doing while she was [...]
Fort Hood Terrorist Charged With Premeditated Murder
Hasan Charged With 13 Counts of Premeditated Murder in Fort Hood Massacre
Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan was charged Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's Fort Hood mass shootings.
The Army Criminal Investigation Command formally announced the charges against [...]
It’s not compulsory for Muslims to do army service in Israel but according to the IDF hundreds of Muslims sign up every year…
And if I understood Jonathan Medved correctly today, there are more Muslims in the IDF than in the ARMY.
[...]Via KJ, this look at the Army during WWII is well worth reading in its own right. But I found an excerpt at the end especially moving. Some of you may have seen it before, but it's journalist Ernie Pyle's account of the retrieval of Captain Waskow:
“I was [...]Army Wasn’t Told of Hasan’s Emails
Pentagon Says It Only Learned of Shooting Suspect’s Contacts With Cleric After the Fort Hood Killings
The Pentagon said it was never notified by U.S. intelligence agencies that they had intercepted emails between the alleged Fort Hood shooter and an extremist imam until [...]
Check out Blackfive for more Veterans Day posts than you can shake a stick at! And while you're there, don't forget to donate to the Army team in memory of all those who serve on this Veterans Day:
... not all sacrifices are made on the field of battle. [...]
What fricken planet am I on?
Flags and flowers are shown in front of the apartment, upper right, where Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived outside of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Hasan is suspected of opening fire on [...]
Fox News Analyst: Fort Hood Suspect 'A Protected Species'
Call this horror by its name: Islamist terror
On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, "Allahu akbar!" ("God is great!") committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants [...]
*facepalm*
Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims [ General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff] “It would be a shame—as great a tragedy as this was—it would be a [...]*facepalm*
[ General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff] “It would be a shame—as great a tragedy as this was—it would be a [...]
