Those who suffered only recently are about to be deployed in service to this nation.
The day after arriving at Fort Hood, Army reservists dedicated to counseling troubled soldiers in war zones were overcome with their own grief.
Nearly a fourth of the Wisconsin-based 467th Medical Detachment’s [...]
by Mark Silva
It was Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, who once told soldiers asking for more equipment: "You go to war with the Army you have.''
And it is Rumsfeld, who oversaw the Bush" [...]
The remains of a U.S. paratrooper reported missing since early this month in western Afghanistan were recovered yesterday, military officials said.
The body of Army Sgt. Brandon Islip was recovered from the Bala Murgahab River in Badghis province after a local Afghan resident provided information on his whereabouts, officials [...]
The man who killed 13 and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan, would have been on his way to Afghanistan tomorrow morning.
He was born and raised and educated on American soil. He served in the U.S. Army for what... over 20 years? [...]
The totals are in for the final tally in the Project Valour-IT campaign.
Total brought in for all teams, including donations not designated to any team: $113,124.90
By team -
Air Force: $15,662.17
Army: $32,758.80
Marines: $43,060.89
Navy: $19,108.04
General donations: $2,535.0
Thanks to all that gave and made [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin, author of Going Rogue, says the Army psychiatrist, a Muslim, accused of killing 13 and wounding 29 at Fort Hood, Texas, should have been "profiled'' before the shootings.
" I certainly do,'' Palin says in an interview that will air on FOX News' Hannity this evening,' [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who has warned the public against "jumping to conclusions'' in the alleged killings of 13 and woundings of 29 more at Fort Hood, Texas, by an Army major and pyschiatrist and Muslim said to have declared that God is great before opening fire" [...]
Lake Superior flows into Lake Huron via the St. Mary's River. But the river, which has a stretch of rapids, is not navigable, so the Soo Locks were constructed. by Mark Silva
Afghanistan is not Sweden, says Army Gen. David Petraeus. Nor is it Vietnam, or Somalia.
It is a place, however, where an effective counter-insurgency working in hand with the building of governmental institutions can have the impact that the United States wants to have in thwarting the threat [...]
In an effort to protect Muslims in uniform who are loyal Americans, The Secretary of the Army and other federal officials in and outside the Pentagon a few days ago cautioned the public against jumping to premature conclusions that the mass murder at Fort Hood was an act of terror directly [...]
When the Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama offers condolences today to those grieving families at Ft. Hood, will he reinterate General Casey's comments to George Stepahanopolous when asked how the Army is handling a possible backlash against Muslims within its ranks?
CASEY: Again, I think that's something else we need to be very careful [...]
Yesterday on Fox Friends, Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were wondering if it was time for the military to start treating Muslim-American soldiers as potential terrorists simply because they are Muslims.
Kilmeade:Do you think it’s time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army [...]by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who has ordered feeral flags lowered to half-staff until Veterams Day for the soldiers killed and wounded in an Army psychiatrist's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, honors the fallen, their families and their comrades today in a weekly address that also honors the [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama plans a stop today at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where some of the most wounded casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated -- and where the Army psychologist accused of killing 13 and wounding 30 at Ft. Hood, [...]
