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US Troop Casualties In Iraq Lowest Since Invasion

Reuters | Ross Colvin | Posted 06.09.2008 | 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 06.04.2008 | 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 06.03.2008 | 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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3 US soldiers killed in vehicle accidents in Iraq, Kuwait

AP | Posted 05.02.2008 | 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 04.25.2008 | 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 04.02.2008 | 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 03.30.2008 | 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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US Troops Losing Hearing

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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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Old Enough Now To Ask How Dad Died At War

New York Times | LISA W. FODERARO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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CamerynLee was only 3 years old when her father, Lance Cpl. Eric J. Orlowski, a Marine Corps reservist, was killed in an accidental shooting during th...

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12 Army Captains Back From Iraq Pen Op-Ed: Institute Draft Or Withdraw Immediately

Washington Post | By 12 former Army captains | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as...

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9 US Soldiers Killed In Iraq

CBS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Nine U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, the military said Monday, including seven in a vehicle accident during a prisoner transport in Baghdad, the U.S. comm...

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