Tag: iraq
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February 01, 2007 06:53 PM EST --
Should reporters be able to display video and pictures of dead soldiers without the parent's or the military’s consent?
This debate was triggered this week when a photograph and 52-second videotape . . .
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February 12, 2007 12:47 PM EST --
On February 5, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division’s Central District (GRD) completed a new 16-classroom girls’ high school in Northern Baghdad. In addition, the . . .
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February 16, 2007 11:07 PM EST --
If you oppose the war because of the number of people that have died, I highly recommend that you read this essay.
On Oct. 29, 2006, on the night before he deployed to Iraq, Army 2LT Mark Daily . . .
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January 28, 2007 03:02 PM EST --
Last November, this moving photograph made its way around the internet showing Chief Master Sergeant John Gebhardt, serving at the time with the 332d Expeditionary Medical Group in Balad Air Base, Iraq, . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:04 PM EST --
Is all this political debate against the build up of troops in Iraq good for the morale of the troops that are there? Is it sending the wrong signals to al Qaeda and other enemies the United States . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2007 – Murders and kidnappings, the hallmarks of sectarian violence, have decreased in Baghdad since reinforcements of U.S. and Iraqi security forces began to flow into the city . . .
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January 25, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
Soldiers are notorious for adapting. An incredibly harsh environment that the soldiers have had to adapt to is that of Iraq. Much of Iraq is desert or wasteland, especially in the . . .
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February 15, 2007 09:16 PM EST --
Capt. Brian S. Freeman, 31, a West Point graduate and Army Reservist, left his young wife and two toddlers in Temecula, Calif., last spring to deploy to Iraq. "Most of us here understand the . . .
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February 18, 2007 01:38 PM EST --
This weekend, Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington, 22, who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced to 8 years in military prison, reduced in rank, and given . . .
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March 19, 2007 11:43 AM EDT --
There are 60,000 immigrants in the U.S. military. They represent two percent of the total service personnel on active duty. About half are noncitizens, with 15,880 in the navy; of those, 5,046 are from . . .
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February 01, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
Some more Marine bumper stickers for your enjoyment.
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February 05, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
Grandmother, 87, declines Army enlistment invite
By GRETEL C. KOVACH
The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, January 15, 2006
She hasn't done a pushup in ages. But that didn't keep Uncle Sam from offering . . .
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February 28, 2007 10:56 PM EST --
Kyle Griffin, 19, shipped out with his Marine unit for Iraq on Sunday, about a week after he was jilted by the woman he wanted to marry.
He arranged to put up a billboard with his girl friend's name . . .
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August 24, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
The US soldiers in Iraq have a new toy: the Buffalo Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles or MRAPs (we love our acronyms).
The MRAPs come in three flavors:
Category I vehicles are . . .
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February 07, 2007 05:07 PM EST --
What is it like to be a Muslim in the United States now?
In editorials and comments here on Gather, I often find the words Muslim and terrorist used interchangeably. I often see . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:31 AM EDT --
BAGHDAD, April 4, 2007 — U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, visited the Dora Market March 31 and saw the significant improvements made there since December.
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April 05, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
Tuesday, 03 April 2007 By Spc. Carl N. Hudson
Combined Press Information Center
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Army general and a spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq held a press conference . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
LONDON, March 23, 2007 – A U.S. Marine appeared before Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace March 21 to receive the United Kingdom's Distinguished Flying Cross for saving lives and in recognition . . .
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January 26, 2007 04:11 PM EST --
This essay has been making its rounds through the internet for a month now. It is a powerful true story of a real life confrontation between a Vietnam Veteran and a Draft Dodger. A great read! . . .
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January 28, 2007 05:10 PM EST --
We are all familiar with the great work that the Marines do with their Toys for Tots campaign here in the United States ... this is the Iraqi version.
In 2005, the 1st Marine Division . . .
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