Posts Tagged ‘child’
Servicemembers Fatherhood Forum
http://www.youtube.com/v/8yLiqWvkx4s?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Video: Carmen Walker reports on a forum, lead by the White House and Veterans Affairs, on the importance of fatherhood and the difficulty fathers in the military face. Source
U.S. confirms video of Baghdad firefight
WASHINGTON — A gritty war video circulating on the Internet that shows U.S. troops firing repeatedly on a group of men — some of whom were unarmed — walking down a Baghdad street is authentic, a senior U.S. military official confirmed Monday. The official said the video posted at Wikileaks.org was of a July 12, 2007, firefight [...]
New push to protect custody rights of troops
An Ohio lawmaker who has been blocked four times in his efforts to pass legislation to protect deployed service members from losing custody of their children has launched a new two-pronged effort to try to get his proposal into law. Republican Rep. Michael Turner will try once again to attach to the annual defense policy bill provisions designed [...]
Troops’ deployment burden unprecedented
WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Army Staff Sgt. Bobby Martin Jr. has been fighting insurgents in Iraq or Afghanistan longer than the entire three years the Korean War lasted.At age 34 and finishing a fourth combat tour, he has seen five of his men killed since 2003. Four died this year, including two on Martin’s birthday in May. [...]
Mom fights to be buried with soldier son
WASHINGTON — Denise Anderson lost her only son in the Iraq war. She’s determined not to lose her fight to be buried with him in a national veterans cemetery.Army Spc. Corey Shea died Nov. 12, 2008, in Mosul, with about a month left on his tour of duty in Iraq. He was buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, about 50 [...]
CG patrol boat collides with vessel, 1 dead
SAN DIEGO — A 33-foot Coast Guard vessel and a pleasure boat collided as a Christmas watercraft parade was going on in San Diego Bay, killing an 8-year-old boy and seriously injuring five people, authorities said.There were no other injuries among the 13 people aboard the 24-foot pleasure boat in the 6 p.m. accident Sunday, Coast Guard [...]
Unconventional officer flourishes in Afghan war
ALTIMUR, Afghanistan — You may wonder how Thomas Gukeisen made it to lieutenant colonel, and by age 39 at that. He breaks Army rules and operates by his own rendition of counterinsurgency warfare whose arsenal includes Afghan poetry, chaos theory and the thoughts of a 17th-century English philosopher.A towering, rough-and-ready 205-pounder, [...]
Trigger-happy security complicates convoys
HUTAL, Afghanistan — Ill-disciplined private security guards escorting supply convoys to coalition bases are wreaking havoc as they pass through western Kandahar province, undermining the coalition’s counterinsurgency strategy here and leading to at least one confrontation with U.S. forces, say U.S. Army officers and Afghan government [...]
Single mother jailed for refusing to deploy
When Spc. Alexis Hutchinson’s airplane left Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., for Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she was not on board.The 21-year-old single mom stayed home because she had no one to care for her 10-month-old son. Continued here: Single mother jailed for refusing to deploy
2nd lt. overcomes severe combat wounds
One of 2nd Lt. Peter Sprenger’s goals in life is to lead soldiers in the 75th Ranger Regiment. He eventually wants to command a battalion and even a brigade.His goals are not unusual for a young officer candidate who has already led men in combat, but Sprenger, 26, was not supposed to make it this far. On Nov. 19, when he was commissioned as [...]
