tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191160022024-02-28T17:46:57.825-05:00US Military NewsStay up to date with the latest news from the US Armed Forces.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger347125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1166055385958482882006-12-13T19:16:00.000-05:002007-01-08T17:06:05.013-05:00America Supports You: Summit Participants Motivated to Thank TroopsBy John J. KruzelAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2006 - Clutching a camo-clad teddy bear named "Hero" that she received from a soldier in Iraq, fifth-grader Bailey Reese stood out among the troop-support organization leaders who gathered at the Pentagon today for the second annual America Supports You Community Group Summit. America Supports You is a Defense Department program Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1166054693312494722006-12-13T19:04:00.000-05:002007-01-08T17:06:28.990-05:00Video E-mail Launches for Deployed Soldiers, FamiliesBy Margaret McBrideSpecial to American Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2006 - Soldiers and families can now communicate by video e-mail through the Army Knowledge Online intranet portal. On the first day, more than 3,500 video e-mails were transmitted. "Thank you, that's all I can say," Pvt. Brenden Teetsell of the 44th Signal Battalion e-mailed on Dec. 6. "Thank you for allowing me to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1166053041603156282006-12-13T18:37:00.000-05:002007-01-08T17:06:47.816-05:00New Evaluation Brigade to Test Emerging Warfighter TechnologiesBy Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press ServiceFORT BLISS, Texas, Dec. 12, 2006 - A new brigade here will test some of the most revolutionary concepts and systems being developed for future warfighters, report how they operate under field conditions, and ultimately speed their fielding to troops on the battlefield. The new Evaluation Brigade Combat Team being stood up here will test 18 major systems Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1166052656366438882006-12-13T18:30:00.000-05:002007-01-08T17:07:05.233-05:00Police, Soldiers Respond to Explosions Near Baghdad MosquesAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2006 - Iraqi police responded to several explosions at both Sunni and Shiite mosques in Baghdad today. A car bomb exploded across the street from the Kamalia mosque, a Shiite mosque in the New Baghdad section of eastern Baghdad, around 9:45 a.m. Forces from 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, supported by coalition forces, were on the sceneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1166049562200851752006-12-13T17:39:00.000-05:002007-01-08T17:07:37.220-05:00Bush: U.S. Will Stand by Iraqi GovernmentBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2006 - Discussions on Iraq between President Bush and military and civilian leaders at the Pentagon today were "candid and fruitful," Bush said after the meeting. Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, his successor Robert M. Gates, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff met with Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney in "the TankUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160951912060407022006-10-15T18:38:00.001-04:002006-10-15T23:48:23.320-04:00U.S., Iraqi Forces Thwart Terrorist Attacks In MosulAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2006 - Iraqi security forces teamed up with American GIs to defeat two nearly simultaneously launched enemy attacks in the Mosul area Oct. 12.U.S. soldiers from Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, attacked and destroyed a terrorist mortar cell after Forward Operating Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160951884936799832006-10-15T18:38:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:47:57.663-04:00Iraqis, GIs Find Bombs, Big Weapons Cache In Western RamadiAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2006 - U.S. soldiers detained 15 suspected insurgents, discovered two vehicles being fitted as suicide bombs, and found a big weapons cache Oct. 12 as part of "Operation Dealer" conducted in the Tameen area in western Ramadi, Iraq.Based on a tip from a local resident, soldiers from Task Force 1-35 detained 15 individuals who were identified as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160951473483882602006-10-15T18:31:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:47:34.613-04:00U.S., Iraqi Troops Kill, Detain Terrorists, Nab WeaponsAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2006 - Iraqi security forces and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers worked together to kill three terrorists and detain 14 suspected terrorists over two days this week.U.S. soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, seized a large weapons and munitions cache while conducting a combat patrol Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160942401666679862006-10-15T16:00:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:47:00.913-04:00'Operation Commando Hunter' Team Finds 75 Weapons CachesBy Staff Sgt. Angela McKinzie, USASpecial to American Forces Press ServiceBAGHDAD, Oct. 15, 2006 - U.S. soldiers continue to find multiple weapons caches, some with improvised explosive devices, for a seventh day as part of Operation Commando Hunter.The soldiers from 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, seized 21 caches Oct. 13, bringing the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160941971016277872006-10-15T15:52:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:46:26.070-04:00GIs, Iraqi Troops Nab Terrorists, Weapons in Multiple RaidsAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2006 - Special Iraqi security forces and U.S. soldiers captured several terrorists involved in murders and bomb attacks, as well as contraband weapons, during recent raids in Baghdad and Taji.Iraqi forces, with coalition advisors, conducted an Oct. 14 air assault mission at a site in Taji and detained one suspect without incident. The suspect Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160941919217736562006-10-15T15:51:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:45:54.490-04:00Servicemembers Killed in Iraq; Previous Casualties IdentifiedAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2006 - Five soldiers, a Marine and an airman were killed in various operations in Iraq Oct. 12 through yesterday, and the Defense Department released the identities of 10 soldiers and 10 Marines killed recently supporting Operation Iraq Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.-- Three Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers were killed yesterday Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160762351463720842006-10-13T13:59:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:44:39.813-04:00Military Transforming Use of Medical RecordsBy Steven Donald SmithAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2006 - The U.S. military's health care community is transforming its approach to capturing, archiving and accessing servicemembers' medical records, a senior Defense Department official said here yesterday."We are working to bring about some pretty amazing things in the way we're changing and revolutionizing the delivery of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160759502523575322006-10-13T13:11:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:43:58.946-04:00Explosion Kills Police Chief, Deputy in Hillah, IraqAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2006 - The Hillah, Iraq, special weapons and tactics police chief and his deputy were killed today in an explosion at the Hillah Iraqi police headquarters in southern Babil province around 10:00 a.m.Soldiers from Multinational Division Baghdad and the 8th Iraqi Army Division quickly responded to the blast, providing a cordon around the attack siteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160677966505956162006-10-12T14:32:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:43:32.173-04:00Enemy Fighters 'Punching Back, Hard' After Iraqi Government CrackdownBy Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2006 - A recent spike in Baghdad violence is the insurgents' response to Iraqi, U.S. and coalition efforts to rein in sectarian murder squads and gangs that operate in some sectors of the city, a senior U.S. military officer said today.For example, in Baghdad's violence-prone Dora neighborhood, "there's no question that the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160672296930109372006-10-12T12:58:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:42:15.810-04:00Army Experts: Unconventional Conflicts to Dominate Future OperationsBy Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2006 - Irregular, unconventional conflicts like those under way in Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to dominate U.S. military operations for the foreseeable future, Army officials agreed this week at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual convention here."I don't see conventional challenges to be dominant for a long time," said Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160672109419435382006-10-12T12:55:00.000-04:002006-10-15T23:45:14.130-04:00NORTHCOM Officials Reacted Immediately to NYC Aircraft IncidentBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2006 - When Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating first heard that a plane had hit a high-rise building in New York yesterday, his first thought was: "Let us get busy as quickly as we know how to make sure it's not another 9-11," the admiral said in a news conference later that day.Keating, the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160616453577096342006-10-11T21:27:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:19:20.906-04:00Schoomaker Plan Looks at Possible Iraq DeploymentsBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - Army officials have a plan to maintain the current number of troops in Iraq through 2010, but it is only a plan and has off-ramps for troop reductions along the way, Army officials said today.Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Army chief of staff, told reporters this morning that the Army has formed plans to maintain the current levelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160606770395444722006-10-11T18:46:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:21:06.106-04:00Rumsfeld Says Proliferation Greatest Danger from North KoreaBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - The real danger of North Korea having nuclear arms is the danger that the regime will sell those weapons to non-state actors, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.During a Pentagon news conference, Rumsfeld said the threat from North Korea "would be amplified geometrically should terrorists obtain weapons of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160605310987401602006-10-11T18:21:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:22:27.130-04:00Divisions Accomplishing Wonders During Iraq Tours, Casey SaysBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - American soldiers in Iraq accomplish wonders during their tours in Iraq, the commander of Multinational Force Iraq said here today.At a Pentagon news conference with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today, Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. used the 101st Airborne Division as an example of what a division can do.The 101st Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160605045647412192006-10-11T18:17:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:20:25.966-04:00Casey Details Progress Amid Iraqi ViolenceBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - The coalition military leader in Iraq disagrees with critics who say Iraq is in a civil war."I don't believe so, and the Iraqis I speak with don't believe so either," said Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., commander of Multinational Force Iraq.Casey and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld spoke during a Pentagon news conferenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160598854779479892006-10-11T16:34:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:18:44.240-04:00NORAD Fighters Airborne Over U.S. CitiesAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - Fighter planes from North American Aerospace Defense Command are airborne over numerous U.S. cities in response to a small plane crashing into an apartment building in New York City today, NORAD officials reported.Officials stressed that the crash, which happened on Manhattan's East Side, does not appear to be an act of terrorism."While Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160598584145538982006-10-11T16:29:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:21:45.360-04:00First Woman Thunderbird Pilot Proud to ServeBy Sgt. Sara Wood, USAAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - Women have served in the Air Force for years, making valuable contributions, but gender and race differences have never been an important factor in accomplishing the Air Force mission, the first woman pilot on the Air Force Thunderbirds said here today."What we need to concentrate on is what we have in common, which isUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160594234834154032006-10-11T15:17:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:17:22.470-04:00Bush: U.S. Chooses Diplomacy to Resolve North Korea Nuke IssueBy Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - The United States is working with regional powers to find a diplomatic solution to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program, President Bush told reporters at a White House news conference today.The North Korean government announced over the weekend it had test-exploded a nuclear weapon. U.S. and other Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160594143044387872006-10-11T15:15:00.000-04:002006-10-11T22:18:07.943-04:00Officials Determine Mortar Caused Fire at Ammo Holding AreaAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 - An 82mm mortar round fired by militia forces from a nearby residential area caused yesterday's fire at a Baghdad ammunition holding area around 10:40 p.m., officials with Multinational Division Baghdad announced today.The fire ignited tank, artillery and small-arms ammunition at a forward operating base in the central Rasheed district of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116002.post-1160593971661286872006-10-11T15:12:00.001-04:002006-10-15T23:43:06.096-04:00Fire Breaks Out at Baghdad Ammunition Holding AreaAmerican Forces Press ServiceBAGHDAD, Oct. 10, 2006 - An ammunition holding area caught fire today at a Multinational Division Baghdad forward operating base in the central Rasheed district of Baghdad, igniting tank and artillery ordnance as well as small-arms ammunition, military officials here reported.Emergency first responders contained the fire within the base, officials said, adding that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0