Armed Services

Why More Female Marines Are Moving To The Front Lines

The New York Times | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Marines, Male-Only Units, Armed Services, Females in the Army, Front Lines, The Army, Female Marines, Women News

The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its i...

Read Whole Story

Celebrating the Military Child Outdoors

Michael Brune | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: National Military Family Association, National Park Service, Ymca, Armed Services, Sierra Club, Military Families, Nature, Green News
Michael Brune

Over the years, we've learned that outdoor programs can also help build resiliency and strength within military families. Getting kids and their parents outdoors together allows them to have fun and reconnect through the healing power of nature.

Read Post

Who Helps the Children of the War Wounded?

Linda Flanagan | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Operation Home Front, College Costs, Post-9/11 Gi Bill, College Education, Wounded Warriors, Wounded Warrior Project, Wounded Service Members, No Greater Sacrifice, Operation Support Our Troops, Armed Services, Returning Soldiers, Impact News
Linda Flanagan

What can ordinary Americans, those of us who have lost our treasure but never our blood in this nation's wars, do to help the families who live with the wars' consequences every day?

Read Post

It's Finally Over -- and It Was Wrong

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Corruption, Civilian Deaths, Sectarian Violence, Destruction, Bombings, Humanitarian, Christmas, American Troops, Armed Services, Prayer, Penance, America, Soldier, Conflict, Just War, Spiritual, Political, Un, Invasion, Faith, Sojo, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Afghan, Terrorist, Congress, Georgetown University, Religious Communities, Terrorist Bomb, White House?S Health Care Summit, U.S. Troops, Unjust War, George W Bush, Financial, Nine Years, Bombing, Christian, Manipulation, President Obama, United Nations, Iraq, Military Presence, Economic, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Occupation, Irresponsibility, Walter Jones, Fundamental Principle, Violence, Veterans, Trillion, United States, Surrender, Saddam, Arab, Combat Troops, Previous Administration, Sojourner, Iraq War, Suicide, Military, Afghanistan, Heroism, Giving, Terrorism, Donald Rumsfeld, Accountability, World News
Jim Wallis

The initial feelings that rushed over me after hearing the announcement that we're pulling out of Iraq were of deep relief. But then they turned to deep sadness over the terrible cost of a war that was always wrong: intellectually, politically, strategically and, above all, morally.

Read Post

Small Town's High School Graduates Went To War After 9/11

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: High School Graduates Military, Montana Schools, Guidance Counselors, Military Service, Superior Montana, High School Graduates, Post-9/11, Military Recruits, Military Recruiting, Armed Services, September 11 Anniversary, Military Doctors, Superior High School, Education News

SUPERIOR, Mont. — Longtime guidance counselor Dan Lucier studies hallway-mounted photos of past graduating classes at Superior High School, poin...

Read Whole Story

Don't Know Melanne Verveer? Why you Should

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Women's History Month, Children, Goldman Sachs 10, Tahirih Justice Center, Women in the World Conference, 10x10, Women's Empowerment, Plan USA, Girl Effect, The Daily Beast, Women, Polaris Project, Joint Women's Leadership Symposium, President Barack Obama, Growing Up Global, Room to Read, Rebecca Project, Global Giving, Sea Service Leadership Association, Facebook, Girl UP, Japan, Haiti, Women for Women International, Girls, Melanne Verveer, Girl Scouts, Armed Services, Three Cups of Tea, Hillary Clinton, 000 Women, Girls Inc., U.S. State Department, Impact News
Homa Sabet Tavangar

Women stand at the center of every type of dramatic change occurring in the world today: whether it's coordinating relief in Japan, consolidating democracy in Egypt or running Facebook.

Read Post

The Runaway General, Part II: General Conway

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gates, Marines, Obama, Robert Greenwald, War in Afghanistan, Withdrawal, Afghanistan War, Clinton, Rethink Afghanistan, Armed Services, General James Conway, Usmc, Afghanistan, July 2011, Derrick Crowe, Brave New Foundation, Drawdown, World News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

President Obama needs to come out right now and reiterate that there will be a drawdown that begins no later than July 2011 and that it will involve significant numbers of U.S. troops.

Read Post

Army's Training Ability 'At Risk' Because Of Iraq And Afghanistan Wars, General Dempsey Warns

McClatchy | Nancy a Youssef | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan Army, Afghanistan War, Gen. Dempsey, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, General Casey, George W. Casey, Army Training, Navy, Armed Services, Afghan War, Marines, Army, Military, Iraqi Army, Martin Dempsey, Iraq War, Air Force, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Army's ability to train its forces is "increasingly at risk" because of the nation's protracted commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan,...

Read Whole Story

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Plan Coming From Pentagon Next Week

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, US Military, Clinton, Afghanistan, Civil Rights, Navy, Armed Services, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Marines, Ban, Gay Rights, Army, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Air Force, Dadt, Human Rights Campaign, Iraq, Dont Ask Dont Tell, John McCain, Gay Marriage, Politics News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will unveil steps next week that the military will take to lay the ground for a repeal of its "don't ask, don't te...

Read Whole Story

Patriotism is not Synonymous with the Republican Party: It's Time They Stopped Using the "P" Word

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Military, Saddam Hussein, Michael Russnow, Unpatriotic, Terrorists, Patriotism, Armed Services, "P" Word, Lemmings, Politics News
Michael Russnow

Whatever you think about the war in Iraq or how we got there, suggesting that those who are in opposition are less than patriotic is irrational and undemocratic.

Read Post