Smoke rises after a second bomb strike from an F/A-18C Hornet fighter-attack aircraft on an insurgent target during a combat operation in the abandoned village of Now Zad, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, April 3. The residents of Now Zad were forced to abandon their homes nearly three years ago out of fear for [...]
Servicemen MIA From Vietnam War are Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the group remains of six U.S. servicemen, missing from the Vietnam War, are soon to be buried with full military honors.
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kate Thomas, attached to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), examines a patient’s retina as part of a medical civic action program in Timor Leste July 21, 2008. The hospital ship, which is deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2008, a humanitarian and civil assistance mission, [...]
Army Sgts. Daniel (left) and Timothy DeKoeyer prepare to deploy with the Florida Army National Guard’s 715th Military Police Company in Melbourne, Fla., July 5, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Thomas Kielbasa
Face of Defense: Police Officer Twins Deploy Together
By Air Force Tech. Sgt. Thomas Kielbasa
Special to American Forces Press Service
MELBOURNE, [...]
05/31/2008 - A group of Iraqi children look on as a U.S. Soldier from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 6th Infantry Division, assigned to Task Force Regulars practices balancing a plate of bread on his head in the Jameela market area of the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, May 31, 2008. DoD photo by Tech. [...]
04/17/2008 - A F-22 Raptor refuels behind a KC-10 Extender while at 26,000 feet April 17, 2008, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. RED FLAG-Alaska 08-2 is a series of Pacific Air Forces field training exercises for U.S Forces and allies that.provides joint offensive counter-air, indirection, close air support, and large force employment training in [...]
Mar. 21, 2008 - U.S. Army 1st Lt. Michael Sargent, a platoon leader with 3rd Platoon, Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion, speaks with Sons of Iraq members while inspecting their traffic checkpoint in Karadah, Iraq, March 21, 2008. Sons of Iraq is a security force comprised of groups of local residents that help maintain security in [...]
An al Qaeda in Iraq torture compound and prison in northern Zambraniyah, Iraq, is destroyed after being hit with six 500-pound precision-guided bombs dropped from a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber March 10, 2008. Photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway, USAF
U.S. Bomber Destroys Al Qaeda in Iraq Jail, Torture Facility
By Tech. Sgt. Joel Langton, [...]
We’ve all read and some of us have experienced an errant 500 lb. dumb bomb, or artillery round killing friendly forces. It now appears that since technology improves, as described below in the Strategy Page article and two articles in libNOT.com about the GPS guided Excalibur artillery round, located HERE and HERE, our soldiers on [...]
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Stephen Simeone, left, and Airman First Class Evan Barnhart control aircraft providing over watch for U.S. Army soldiers as they search for improvised explosive devices and weapons caches in the area around Patrol Base Meade, Iraq, on Jan. 21, 2008. Simeone and Barnhart are both Joint Terminal Attack Controllers deployed [...]
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