Troops

I Support People, Not Troops

James Peron | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Violence, Iraq War, Troops, Pacifism, Afghanistan War, War, South Africa, U.S. Troops, Antiwar, Politics News

I love watching a child seeing his father's face for the first time in a year, rushing to daddy's arms, crying. I cry with him. I want to see this scene thousands of times over. I want them all home, unharmed. If that is what you mean by "support," then count me in.

Read Post

PHOTOS: Americans Honor Troops On Memorial Day

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Arlington National Cemetery, Video, Obama, Troops, Memorial Day, Memorial Day 2012, 2012 Memorial Day, Tomb of the Unknown Solider, Veterans, Politics News

-- Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. At Dov...

Read Whole Story

U.S. Soldiers Visit Stewart And Colbert

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Troops, Memorial Day, Veteran Interview, Slideexpand, The Daily Show, Veterans, Jon Stewart Interview, Stephen Colbert, Soldier Interviews, Soldiers, Video, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Interview, Funny Videos, Comedy Slideshows, Colbert Report, Comedy News

As the country celebrates Memorial Day on Monday and commemorates the service of all U.S. soldiers, we thought we'd take a look back at some of our fa...

Read Whole Story

Inside The Search For Missing Marines

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Kelsey Grammer, Kelsey Grammar, Troops, Until They Are Home Film, Until They Are Home Documentary, Veterans, Steven Barber, Ed Harris, Pow/Mia, Video, Mia, Pow, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Kelsey Grammer Until They Are Home, Until They Are Home, Entertainment News

Award-winning filmmaker Steven C. Barber ("Return To Tarawa") has a new documentary making its debut this Memorial Day. "Until They Are Home" focuses ...

Read Whole Story

A Soldier's Perspective on Memorial Day

Nicole Bires | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Soldiers, Troops, Army, Memorial Day, Armed Forces, Memorial Day 2012, Veterans, Impact News

Why do I wear the uniform of the United States of America? Easy. I do it for you.

Read Post

Kevin Costner's Visit to Fort Knox

Bill Nelson | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Chinook, Military, Afghanistan, USA Cares, Fort Knox, Kevin Costner, Military Families, Soldiers, Troops, Kevin Costner Fort Knox, Veterans, Impact News

I appreciated Mr. Costner's candidness in reminding us of the difference between the real heroes and those who play heroes. He brought the star power, but he wasn't the story. And he clearly did not blur the lines between his imagination and heroes of the real world.

Read Post

So... Why Would a Dog Be on Facebook?

SGT Tanangachi Mfuni | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Stress, Military, Pets, Troops, Army, 4th Brigade, 4th ID, Hank Lopez, CPT Katie Kopp, US Troops, Therapy Dogs, Afghanistan, Servicemembers, Deployed, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Video, Impact News

Roll your eyes, but this three-year-old Facebooking Boston Terrier has 141 friends on the social networking site.

Read Post

Dennis Kucinich: New U.S.-Afghan Agreement Means We're Not Leaving Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Troops, Afghanistan Troops, Afghanistan, Strategic Partnership Argreement, Elections 2012, Obama Karzai, Afghanistan War, Obama Afghanistan War, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- For all the fanfare around President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday declaring the war in Afghanistan over, at least one Democratic law...

Read Whole Story

WWII Vet Sending Thousands Of Pirated Movies To U.S. Troops

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Troops, Illegal Dvds, Copyright, Trademark, Big Hy, Dvds, Movies, Movie Piracy, Video, Military, US Troops Iraq, Illegal Downloading, US Troops Afghanistan, Hyman Strachman, Hollywood, Business News

Meet Hyman Strachman, probably the nation's most patriotic movie pirate. For the past eight years the 92-year-old widowed World War II veteran has ...

Read Whole Story

Pentagon Leaders Outline New Plan To Cut Ground Forces

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Pentagon, Troops, Pentagon Cuts, President Barack Obama, US Troops, Pentagon Budget, Defense Cuts, Pentagon Spending, Barack Obama, Video, Military, Defense, U.S. Ground Troops, Ground Forces, Barack Obama 2012, Leon Panetta, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon outlined a plan Thursday for slowing the growth of military spending, including cutting the size of the Army and Marin...

Read Whole Story

U.S. and Afghan Troops Dance Off

SGT Tanangachi Mfuni | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: 3rd Brigade 1st Infantry Special Troops Battalion, 7th MPAD, Troops, 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Afghanistan, Tanangachi Mfuni, U.S., Soldiers, Tana Mfuni, Celebration, DANCE OFF, Party, Gardez, 3-1 BSTB, Afghan, Dancing, Video, World News

There are days in Afghanistan when U.S. and Afghan forces are not in firefights with insurgents, neither are they sniffing out roadside bombs, or raiding weapons caches. Sometimes they're just dancing.

Read Post

A Message to All Candidates: Our Troops Aren't Props

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Politics, Department of Defense, Troops, Iava, Afghanistan, Ron Paul, War, Elections 2012, Jesse Thorsen, Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff, Politics News

Our troops are many things to many people. Heroes, parents, diplomats, victims, villains, victors. But as the GOP primary heats up, there is one thing that everyone must understand they're not: political props. And that's not just my opinion, it's the law.

Read Post

Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire

Medea Benjamin | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Iraq, Obama, Troops, Pentagon Budget, Budget Cuts, Peace, War, Obama Pentagon Budget, Obama Defense Budget, Obama Pentagon Spending, Obama Defense Spending, Politics News

If you want to see what Obama's military strategy really is, forget what's said at press conferences and in turgidly written Pentagon press releases. Just look at the record.

Read Post

Spending New Year's Entertaining the Troops

Dave Price | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Troops, Afghanistan, US Troops Afghanistan, Impact News

I won't be with my family at home watching the ball drop in Times Square this year. But I am still going to be surrounded by people I care for.

Read Post

PHOTOS: Home From Iraq: Soldier Homecomings

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Photography, Iraq War, Photo, Troops, Military, Homecoming, War, Exposure, Iraq, World News

After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq - a conflict that Defense Secre...

Read Whole Story

Obama Welcomes Home Troops

AP | By KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Iraq War, U.S. Troops, Video, Troops, Iraq Troops, President Barack Obama, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Barack Obama 2012, Iraq, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Obama Iraq, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is welcoming home troops who served in Iraq, saying that their service offers a lesson about the nation's charact...

Read Whole Story

Report: Remains Of 274 Troops Dumped In Virginia Landfill

AP | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Dover Air Force Base, Virginia, Troops, Military Burials, Military, King George County Landfill, Air Force, Video, DC News

WASHINGTON — A published report says the remains of many more troops have been dumped in a Virginia landfill than the military originally acknow...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: Last CA National Guard Troops Come Home

San Mateo, CA Patch | Laura Dudnick | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: National Guard, Soldiers Return, Video, Troops, San Mateo National Guard, Troops Come Home, Obama Soldiers Return, Troop Return, National Guard Return, Obama Troop Return, San Francisco News

Friends and family members gathered at the San Mateo National Guard armory Friday morning to welcome home more than 60 soldiers returning from Iraq. ...

Read Whole Story

Thanks Troops! Colo. Organizations Do Their Part

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Colorado Military Support, Troops, Denver Impact, Support the Troops, Military Care Package, Afghanistan Troops, Scarves for Troops, Denver News

It's the time of year for appreciating what we have and those that make our lifestyles possible. For military families and those deployed overseas, a...

Read Whole Story

Johnny Comes Marching Home

Michael Brenner | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Afghanistan Withdrawal, Afghanistan War, Soldiers, Troops, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, War on Terror, Politics News

American troops are on the move. An ebb tide is carrying them home even as Washington pushes its war on 'terror' to new frontiers.

Read Post

The Treat of Books for Troops

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: United States Troops, Troops, Operation Paperback, Books, Books News

Who needs -- and deserves -- the comfort, escape, and pleasure of books more than our United States troops?

Read Post

ReThink Review: Where Soldiers Come From -- On Soldier Worship

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Troops, Military, Afghanistan, Documentary, Ptsd, Where Soldiers Come From, Veterans, National Guard, Soldier Worship, Where Soldiers Come From Film, Where Soldiers Come From Documentary, Where Soldiers Come From Review, Entertainment News

Where Soldiers Come From should be required viewing for any young person considering joining the military, and really everyone else, whether you support our current wars or not.

Read Post

Friday Talking Points -- Foreign Policy Issues Reappear

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Ben Nelson, Troops, President Obama, War on Terror, Firefighters, Police, Osama Bin Laden, Mark Pryor, Home for the Holidays, Jobs, Iraq, Obama, Democratic, Jim Webb, Withdrawal, Republican, Dadt, Liberators, Unemployment, Revolution, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Orrin Hatch, Drug War, American Jobs Act, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Justice, Scott Brown, Dont Ask Dont Tell, House, Gaddafi, Qaddafi, Olympia Snowe, War, Rebels, Democrat, Congress, Lindsey Graham, Democrats, Barack Obama, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Libya, Harry Reid, Afghanistan, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Teachers, Friday Talking Points, Senate, Ghaddafi, Politics News

It has been a big week on the foreign policy front, with the death of Libya's dictator and President Obama's announcement today that all U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of this year.

Read Post

The Soldier Who Killed Herself After Refusing to Take Part in Torture

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Suicides, Soldiers, Troops, Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S. Soldiers, Ptsd, Veterans, Politics News

Over the years, I have written about dozens of sad, tragic, individual cases. But one of the saddest of all concerns a young soldier who died eight years ago this week: Alyssa Peterson.

Read Post

Patriotism vs. Nationalism in a Post 9/11 World

Grant Lyon | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, Nationalism, American Revolution, Fundamentalism, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamaphobia, Bill of Rights, Troops, George Orwell, 9/11 Anniversary, Yankee Doodle Dandy, 9/11, Fbi, Freedom of Religion, Sikhism, 9/11 Memorial, Patriotism, Westboro Baptist Church, American Flag, Socialism, Muslim, National Anthem, Gettysburg Address, September 11 Anniversary, Comedy News

If you believe in freedom of religion but don't understand the irony behind your anger at a mosque being built near ground zero, then you are the number one culprit of dumb nationalism in 2011.

Read Post