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Military Branches Hit Recruiting Goals
Posted at Tue, 13 May 2008 08:01:57 -0000
The Marine Corps far surpassed its recruiting goal last month, enlisting 2,233 people, which was 142 percent of its goal, the Pentagon said. The Army recruited 5,681 people, 101 percent of its goal. The Navy and Air Force also met their goals, 2,905 sailors and 2,435 airmen. A Defense Department spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said that if the Marine Corps continued its recruiting success, it could reach its goal of growing to 202,000 people by the end of 2009, more than a year (more) ...
Black Hawk Down hero to be keynote speaker at Memorial Day
Posted at Sun, 11 May 2008 23:29:52 -0000
Mathew “Matt” Eversmann, the keynote speaker for this year’s Wilton Memorial Day, was in the Battle of Mogadishu, which was dramatized by the motion picture “Black Hawk Down.”
He is also a veteran of the war in Iraq, and an accomplished public speaker who has lectured to colonels at the Army War College as well as cadets and faculty at West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy.
Sgt. Eversmann was born in 1966, the youngest of four children in a mainly military family. His father (more) ...
Marines Ignore Afghani Poppy Fields
Posted at Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:38 -0000
GARMSER, Afghanistan - The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's gooey resin smile and wave.
Last week, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit moved into southern Helmand province, the world's largest opium poppy-growing region, and now find themselves surrounded by green fields of the illegal plants that produce the main (more) ...
2nd Bat Ranger death
Posted at Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:26:34 -0000
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. 1st Class David L. McDowell, 30, of Ramona, Calif., died April 29 in Bastion, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked using small arms fire. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.
For further information, media should contact the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs (more) ...
Dad's video of run-down barracks sparks military response
Posted at Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:50:16 -0000
(CNN) -- The U.S. military is promising action to address conditions in a barracks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after a soldier's father posted images on YouTube showing a building that he said "should be condemned."
A soldier battles overflowing sewage in the Fort Bragg barracks shortly after coming home from Afghanistan.
"This is embarrassing. It's disgusting. It makes me mad as hell," Ed Frawley said of the building where his son, Sgt. Jeff Frawley, had to live (more) ...
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