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Combat injuries can afflict veterans with pain for years (www.honoluluadvertiser.com)
Bob Monroe survived the rigors of being in an Army Ranger battalion and later getting shot at as a helicopter pilot in his 22-year military career.
Submitted about 16 hours ago by SpencerKent on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Morale: The Marines Are Right And The Army Is Wrong (www.strategypage.com)
The U.S. Army is under increasing pressure to use six month combat tours, rather than the twelve months ones it has been using for over half a century. This issue came up recently when the army... More
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Divorces rise among military couples (www.usatoday.com)
Enlisted soldiers and Marines divorced their spouses at a higher rate in fiscal 2008 than at any other time in at least 16 years, according to Pentagon data released Tuesday. About 4% of married... More
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Army uses video games in suicide prevention (www.csmonitor.com)
As the strains of war push the Army's suicide rate up to an all-time high, the service is turning to a fictional soldier named Spc. Kyle Norton to encourage soldiers to seek help faster.
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Domestic Violence in Military Families
(www.feministing.com)
I was glad to see that the New York Times is continuing their important coverage of veteran issues, especially when it comes to violence stateside. Sunday they ran a story about the Army's major... More
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Geren says Army speeding growth to boost dwell time (www.stripes.com)
The Army has accelerated plans to grow its ranks in an effort to widen the span between downrange deployments, its top civilian leader said Saturday. Army Secretary Pete Geren said the service... More
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Despite Army’s Assurances, Violence at Home (www.nytimes.com)
On Christmas Day two years ago, Sgt. Carlos Renteria, recently back from his first tour in Iraq, got drunk and, during an argument, began to choke his wife, Adriana. He body-slammed her. He threw her... More
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New friendly fire coverup: Army shreds files on dead soldiers
(www.salon.com)
Last month, Salon published a story reporting that U.S. Army Pfc. Albert Nelson and Pfc. Roger Suarez were killed by U.S. tank fire in Ramadi, Iraq, in late 2006, in an incident partially captured on... More
Submitted 14 days ago by cdoherty on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Palpable tension between Burma-Bangladesh on border (www.mizzima.com)
Despite the withdrawal of warships from the disputed waters in the Bay of Bengal, both Burma and Bangladesh have beefed up security along its land border, as talks between the two countries to ease... More
Submitted 20 days ago by backhandpath on Burma | 0 Comments |
First Female Four Star General Promoted (www.youngpoorandangry.com)
WASHINGTON — Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general. At an... More
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