January 17, 2008 – 10:46 am
[Editors note: The following article has SSG Jonathan Dozier's hometown listed incorrectly as Rutherford, Tennessee, where he attended college. His hometown is Chesapeake, Virginia.]
Story by Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
VILSECK, Germany – Their families and most of their friends were thousands of miles away, but hundreds of comrades packed Vilseck Chapel on Wednesday for a [...]
January 16, 2008 – 3:54 pm
Major Michael L. Green, a former Adjutant and Troop Commander with War Eagle Squadron from 1997-2000, was killed in Afghanistan Jan 7, 2008. Always Ready, Sir!
Obituary
Escort and funeral services
January 14, 2008 – 5:11 pm
Iraq offensive: Clear out militants – and stay.
US, Iraqi operation in Diyala Province draws on a new counterinsurgency model.
By Scott Peterson, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
January 14, 2008 – 12:53 pm
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON – Multi-national Corps Iraq soldiers and Iraqi forces have discovered scores of weapons and explosives, detained six suspects, and destroyed booby-trapped homes in Iraq this month in coordinated offensives.
Operation Phantom Phoenix, a series of coordinated assaults focused on pursuing al-Qaida and clearing terrorist safe havens, is the latest in a series [...]
January 13, 2008 – 4:25 pm
[Editors note: The following article has SSG Jonathan Dozier's hometown listed incorrectly as Rutherford, Tennessee, where he attended college. His hometown is Chesapeake, Virginia.]
By Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes
VILSECK, Germany — The rural military community of Vilseck is just a fraction of itself, now that most of its soldiers are deployed to Iraq.
But when word [...]
January 12, 2008 – 3:37 pm
The Department of Defense announced today the death of six Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The six Soldiers, all members of 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, were killed January 9th in Sinsil, Iraq, north of Baghdad, when insurgents detonated a large bomb hidden in a house the Soldiers were clearing. [...]
January 12, 2008 – 3:31 pm
A bomb-rigged house exploded and killed six American Soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, and their Iraqi interpreter.
Photos by Jehad Nga for The New York Times
American Soldiers in Sinsil, Iraq, questioning the family of a man who had directed the unit to a bomb-rigged house.
By Stephen Farrell, The New York Times
Sinsil, Iraq – [...]
January 12, 2008 – 3:27 pm
Driving out insurgents and assessing accusations, soldiers in Iraq often have to interview suspects and bag and tag evidence.
By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
DIYALA RIVER VALLEY, IRAQ — A stocky man in a dusty dishdasha and red-checked scarf squatted under a tree as U.S. soldiers dug up his yard looking for weapons or [...]
