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Sergeant Manzella Comes Out, Is Kicked Out

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

At the very time the Pentagon is actively recruiting to keep its numbers up, soldiers who happen to be openly gay are being treated as though they are convicted felons and unceremoniously booted out.

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Death of My Friend's Son in Iraq Finally Sparks Pentagon Probe

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

The Pentagon has just ordered electrical inspections of all buildings in Iraq maintained by KBR, the major military contractor.

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War, The Economy And The Death of A Man

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Jonathan Tasini

In the United States, a man who wanted to work could not find enough work to keep him from being homeless. So, he went back to war so he could make enough money to survive. And he died.

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Officials: 30,000 Troops Heading To Iraq In 2009

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15...

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McCain's Afghanistan: Macabre Visions Through The Eyes of an Ex-President

Shoaib Harris | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ahmed Rashid, War on Terror, Jena Bush, Taliban, Shiite, Republican Presidential Candidate, Kabul, John McCain, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Soviet Occupation, Afghanistan, Bamiyan, Hazara, Khad, Scott Mcclellan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Alqaeda, US Soldiers, Politics News
Shoaib Harris

Unlike McCain, who keeps recycling President Bush's bravado of catching "Bin Laden dead or alive," Obama, to his credit, has articulated his Afghanistan strategy more clearly.

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Staying Sane In Iraq: A Soldier's Story

AJ Jacobs | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living

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AJ Jacobs

I got a remarkable letter last week from a soldier in Iraq named Shaun Feingold. I found his words so inspiring, I asked him if I could post them, and he agreed.

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Veterans Benefits Checks Delayed: Soldiers Risk Financial Ruin

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

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SAN ANTONIO — His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending ...

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Afghan official: 870 inmates escaped from prison

AP | NOOR KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after...

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Iraq PM Raises Possibility That US Might Be Asked To leave

McClatchy | Leila Fadel and Mike Tharp | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will a...

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Support the Stop-loss Compensation Act

Bobby Muller | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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Bobby Muller

Of all the abuses borne by our servicemembers since the beginning of Afghanistan and Iraq, excessive reliance on stop-loss, where tours of duty are involuntarily extended, is one of the most egregious.

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US Troop Casualties In Iraq Lowest Since Invasion

Reuters | Ross Colvin | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

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Nineteen U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in May, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the lowest monthly death toll since U.S. forces invaded to topple...

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Wartime PTSD cases jumped roughly 50 pct. in 2007

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildu...

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Wounded Soldiers' Vegas Weekend Provided By Billionaire

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

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LAS VEGAS — All too familiar with the gambles of war, Jimmy Kinsey, Kyle Riley and a few dozen fellow soldiers landed in the desert. But for the...

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The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition

James Wright | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

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James Wright

American colleges and universities must urge Congress and the president to support legislation that will give veterans the educational opportunities that they have more than earned.

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3 US soldiers killed in vehicle accidents in Iraq, Kuwait

AP | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two of its soldiers in Iraq died when their vehicle rolled onto its side north of Baghdad. A third American so...

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Nearly 1 in 5 troops has mental problems after war service

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major ...

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Six Fallen US Soldiers, In The Words They Sent Home

New York Times | LIZETTE ALVAREZ and ANDREW W. LEHREN | Posted 03.25.2008 | Home

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By the time Specialist Jerry Ryen King decided to write about his experiences in Iraq, the teen-age paratrooper had more to share than most other sold...

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Three US Soldiers Killed By Roadside Bomb, Death Toll Approaches 4,000

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers north of Baghdad on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict to ...

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Surge in Suicides Among Iraq Vets Hits Close to Home

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

As I have documented over the years -- few others in the media were interested until recently -- suicides in Iraq now total in the hundreds with many more than that among the returnees.

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US Troops Losing Hearing

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

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SAN DIEGO — Soldiers and Marines caught in roadside bombings and firefights in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home in epidemic numbers with per...

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Army: Psychiatrists Needed on Warfronts

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — U.S. troops on the battlefield found it harder to get the mental health care they needed last year, when violence rose in Afghanist...

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Suicides Among Active-Duty Soldiers Reach Record High

Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 01.30.2008 | Home

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Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial h...

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Low Expecations Have Supplanted High Ideals Inside Baghdad Green Zone

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics

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Several dozen soldiers and embassy staff members relaxed on the patio around Saddam Hussein's old swimming pool, shivering in the desert chill, as a b...

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Why Some US Soldiers Feel At Home In Iraq

Slate | Lawrence Kaplan | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

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One night earlier this fall, a string of detonations shook the walls of a company-sized U.S. Army outpost south of Baghdad. It was the middle of the n...

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US Soldier Killed On Christmas Day In Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.27.2007 | Home

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The Pentagon revealed today that a soldier from suburban Detroit died Christmas Day in Iraq. Sgt. Peter Neesley, 28, was from Grosse Pointe Farms. The...

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