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Getting in battle mode (www.goerie.com)
About 700 soldiers from the Pennsylvania National Guard's 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry, 58th Stryker Combat Team have been at Camp Shelby since Sept. 19 preparing for a seven- to eight-month-long... More
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Iraq: The Counterfactual Game (www.theatlantic.com)
As an early supporter of the war in Iraq, I like others have taken refuge in counterfactuals: all the bad things that might have happened had we left Saddam Hussein in power. Counterfactuals, if you... More
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U.S. threatens to halt services to Iraq without troop accord (www.mcclatchydc.com)
The U.S. military has warned Iraq that it will shut down military operations and other vital services throughout the country on Jan. 1 if the Iraqi government doesn't agree to a new agreement on the... More
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Iraq revises draft troop deal; U.S. likely to reject changes (www.mcclatchydc.com)
The Iraqi cabinet agreed Tuesday to amend a draft agreement governing the status of U.S. forces in Iraq, but introduced new provisions that the U.S. military is unlikely to accept.
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"A vote for John McCain is a vote for ONE veteran, a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for ALL veterans." (www.huffingtonpost.com)
Since the early days of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers have been returning home and finding themselves engaged in politics for the first time in their lives. Many of us have taken the lead... More
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Burn pit at Balad raises health concerns (www.militarytimes.com)
An open-air “burn pit” at the largest U.S. base in Iraq may have exposed tens of thousands of troops, contractors and Iraqis to cancer-causing dioxins, poisons such as arsenic and carbon monoxide,... More
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15% of female veterans tell of sexual trauma (www.usatoday.com)
About one out of seven female veterans of Afghanistan or Iraq who visit a Veterans Affairs center for medical care report being a victim of sexual assault or harassment during military duty, a study... More
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Post-traumatic stress is war within the body (www.hattiesburgamerican.com)
Post-traumatic stress disorder, once a poorly understood and little-known mental health problem, is turning up on the public's radar a lot more as growing numbers of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans... More
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Local Guard unit deploying this weekend (www.montgomeryadvertiser.com)
Approximately 190 members of the Alabama Army National Guard’s 158th Maintenance Company from Tallassee and Tuskegee have been activated for an Iraq deployment. A send-off for the unit will be... More
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Ky. Senate candidates discuss views on Iraq war (www.theleafchronicle.com)
Both Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford have featured military veterans in their television advertising, but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been a focal point of... More
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