Category Archives: Troops

Official: More Marines headed to Afghanistan

By doris | Published: January 6, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States plans to send more than 1,000 Marines to Afghanistan soon, a U.S. military official told CNN on Thursday. The Marines will support the expansion of security efforts in southern Afghanistan, and they will be on the ground for only a few months, the official said. [...]

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Senate votes to end military ban on gays

By doris | Published: December 19, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — In a landmark for gay rights, the Senate on Saturday voted to let gays serve openly in the military, giving President Barack Obama the chance to fulfill a campaign promise and repeal the 17-year policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Obama was expected to sign it next week, [...]

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US House approves billions for wars without debate

By doris | Published: December 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation that authorizes the Defense Department to spend nearly $160 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this budget year without major restrictions on the conduct of operations. The 341-48 vote on the defense authorization bill came after House and [...]

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General: South Korea drill could cause ‘chain reaction

By doris | Published: December 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. military is concerned that South Korea’s live-fire artillery exercises planned for coming days could spark an uncontrollable clash with the North, but the State Department said the exercises are not meant to be threatening or provocative. “What we worry about, obviously, is if that is misunderstood [...]

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Obama in Afghanistan on unannounced trip

By doris | Published: December 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Speaking to nearly 4,000 U.S. troops here after a secret overnight flight from Washington, President Barack Obama on Friday said they were making “important progress” against militants in Afghanistan. “Today we can be proud that there are fewer areas under Taliban control,” he said.

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Study: U.S. military can safely end ban on gays

By doris | Published: December 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — A Pentagon study on gays in the military has determined that overturning the law known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” might cause some disruption at first but would not create any widespread or long-lasting problems. The study provided ammunition to congressional Democrats struggling to overturn the law. Even with [...]

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Bush says some NATO allies let U.S. down in Afghanistan

By doris | Published: November 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Former President George W. Bush defended his administration’s handling of the war in Afghanistan on Sunday, telling CNN that some NATO allies who contributed troops to the conflict “turned out not to be willing to fight.” In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Bush strongly refuted criticism that his [...]

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7 Special Forces soldiers to get Silver Star for Afghan valor

By doris | Published: August 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN) — It’s been clear for months that the fighting in Afghanistan is more intense than it’s been since the war there started nearly nine years ago. Yet, from the midst of those increasingly violent firefights come some amazing stories of heroism. On Monday, seven soldiers will [...]

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Biden: Afghan withdrawal may start with ‘a couple of thousand troops’

By doris | Published: July 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — As few as “a couple of thousand” U.S. troops may leave Afghanistan in the first phase of withdrawing forces from there beginning a year from now, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday. “It could be as few as a couple of thousand troops; it could [...]

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Bin Laden hunter: I had help

By doris | Published: June 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Fresh off the plane from Pakistan, Gary Faulkner speaks passionately about his mission to capture Osama bin Laden. “There’s a lot of people who talk,” Faulkner told CNN. “I got off my butt, and I put my life on the line.” This wasn’t some fly-by-night trip, [...]

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Powell in favor of repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

By doris | Published: February 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state, has come out in favor of eventually repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay and lesbian service members. “In the almost seventeen years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ [...]

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Gates seeks to change ‘out of date’ vision of military challenges

By doris | Published: February 3, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Preparing the U.S. military to fight two major conventional wars is “out of date” and does not reflect the numerous challenges U.S. military forces could face in the future, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Gates made that pronouncement as he revealed the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, [...]

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