Combat vet recalls bitter cold, fierce fighting
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He&#39;s recalling the bitterly cold weather and the sounds of battle 60 years ago when a major battle was fought in Belgium. &quot;I don&#39;t like loud noises,&quot; said Watson, then a 19-year-old squad leader in the 87th Division.
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Four decades after Charles Robert Jenkins disappeared into the mists of the Cold War, the United States Army sergeant, now a frail 64-year-old, received a light sentence
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LANDSTUHL, Germany A US Marine who was wounded in the battle for Fallujah says the fighting is intense -- &quot;house to house&quot; and &quot;rooftop to rooftop.
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WASHINGTON - A US Marine being investigated for allegedly killing an unarmed, wounded Iraqi was acting under extreme combat stress, comrades said yesterday.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Amid yellow ribbons and farewell banners at a ceremony for Iraq-bound troops here last week was one anonymous combat veteran waging a last-minute federal court battle to stay home.
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In the early days of the Iraq war, on the last day of his life, Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith showed valor that no U.S. soldier has matched in Iraq. Smith&#039;s men came under attack as they mopped up after the capture of Baghdad&#039;s airport. The sergeant braved hostile fire to evacuate three wounded soldiers and single-handedly killed dozens of enemy soldiers before being killed himself as he covered the evacuation of other wounded Americans.
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The Guantanamo prisoner who died in his cell this week was a Saudi army veteran who trained with U.S. soldiers in his homeland before going to fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan, military records showed on Thursday.
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ATLANTA - Scientists hope a high-tech virtual experience that mimics the battlegrounds of Iraq can be used to help veterans recover from the trauma of war.
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U.S. Army Spc. Gerald Lee Meeks is struggling with the death of one of his best friends. He and other soldiers in Iraq had to carry the body more than a mile back to base: "Those images will always be in your head." The slain soldier has since returned home, receiving a hero's welcome in southeastern Indiana.
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Vietnam veterans are honored all over the country these days. However, that wasn&#39;t the way it was when the war was being waged or even after it ended.
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Army Sgt. Lawrence Sprader set out under the searing Texas sun on a map-reading exercise, carrying a cell phone in case he got hopelessly lost or fell ill in the hills and ravines of Fort Hood. And still he didn't make it out alive.
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Correspondent Michael Weisskopf had his right hand blown off in Iraq. This is the story of how he rebuilt his life -- and what he learned from the soldiers who lost even more
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Sign up for the army, but know you could come home in a wheelchair. That was the hard lesson for Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, whose experience is detailed in new film "Body of War."
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Veterans of earlier fires are sharing practical lessons on recovery and rebuilding.
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Staff Sgt. Joshua Olson called it his "Alive Day," the one-year anniversary of the day he lost his leg in Iraq. He marked the date by traveling from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington back to the Fort Campbell woods where he once instructed men as a squad leader. Instead of camouflage, he wore jeans and a T-shirt, and used crutches to get around on one leg.
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The military health-care system canât keep pace with the flood of battlefield casualties. Max Cleland--Vietnam vet, triple amputee, and former U.S. senator--on the roots of the crisis, and what needs to be done.
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He was back in uniform, back where he belonged. Twenty-seven pounds lighter. On the verge of a promotion to staff sergeant. Happy again, and sober. A man escaping an ugly past to build a respectable future.