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Captain Dale A Goetz KIA
Department of Defense The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of five soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Aug. 30 in the Arghandab River Valley, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. All were based at Fort Carson, Colo. Killed [...]
Marines coming home to Haiti
The Marine Corps is home to thousands of Marines born in places other than the United States. These Marines are used to deploying all around the globe, sometimes at a moment’s notice. Sometimes these special individuals get the unique opportunity to return to their home country proudly wearing the eagle, globe and anchor. Six Marines [...]
Building morale one nail at a time
The Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team reached out to the Khost city Children of Hope orphanage by giving them wooden chests for the children to have at the foot of their beds Aug. 22. The chests were not purchased on the local economy or contracted out, but hand-made by U.S. Army Cpl. Jerome Halaszynski, from McKeesport, Pa., Khost PRT [...]
U.S. military aids millions in Pakistan flooding disaster
Here are several articles from our other site about the efforts of our young men and women in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to aid the millions affected by the flooding in Pakistan. Follow the link for the entire piece and some photos. U.S. Marines Respond to Pakistan Floods The United States military is part of an international [...]
Afghanistan can be a real gas
While growing up in Columbus, Ga., Senior Airman Russell Chamblee worked for a construction company driving a 50-ton truck and trailer. Little did he know that the skills he learned then would be an important part of a program vital to warfighters on the ground. The Airman, deployed from the 89th Aerial Port Squadron at Joint Base Andrews, Md., [...]
Navy and Marines continue to aid Pakistan flood victims
The sailors and Marines of HMM-165 reinforced (Reinforced), 15th MEU, and HM-15 Detachment 2, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 press on as they acknowledge a major achievement during humanitarian relief efforts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. In just over two weeks on the ground in Pakistan the combined efforts of the [...]
Women in the Army - the WACS remembered
While sitting on a stage before her speech, Annabelle Smith pointed out to a female soldier, sitting with her legs crossed, ankle on knee, that she would have received demerits and an hour of guard duty for sitting like that when she was in the Women’s Army Corps basic training because she wasn’t sitting like a “lady.” “Things are [...]
Fighting corruption in Afghan education
When theft and corruption involving more than $1.1 million surfaced last year in Paktika province, it brought educators’ pay to a grinding halt and nearly caused a massive walkout by the teachers of the Waza Kwah School District. In an effort to correct the problem, Ehsanullah, the new Director of Education for Paktika province, and [...]
Agricultural infrastructure aids Iraqi prosperity
The Maysan Provincial Reconstruction Team and Soldiers of Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, which is attached to 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd BCT, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Maysan Central Wheat Granary to unveil a newly-built truck lift. The [...]
