Former U.S. Soldiers Balk at New Iraq, Afghan Duty
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Thirty percent of former U.S.  soldiers who have been called back to duty involuntarily to  serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to report on time,  and eight have been declared AWOL, the Army said on Tuesday.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq  warned Iran and others in comments published on Monday to think  twice before trying to take advantage of the U.S. military at a  time when it is fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hundreds of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are ending up homeless. How could this happen?
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The United States should have quickly reformed the Iraqi army after most of its soldiers walked off the battlefield and got them "working for us," retired Gen. Tommy Franks said Tuesday.
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Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers &#151; and luring away active-duty ones &#151; for security jobs in Iraq, according to a former army officer who met with the recruiters.
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U.S. troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer "daunting and growing" psychological problems -- with nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of the National Guard members reporting symptoms -- but the military's cadre of mental-health workers is "woefully...
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Twenty months after toppling Saddam Hussein, U.S. troops still battling his followers in the heart of Iraq's old arms industry are hitting back with a new weapon -- ex-members of Saddam's special forces.
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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- When Lieutenant General David Petraeus was reassigned last year from a top command in Iraq to this sprawling Army complex in the heartland where new leaders are trained, many in the military saw it as a move to sideline a potential critic from Pentagon decision-making.
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Just before Christmas, an Army captain named Brian Freeman cornered Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) at a Baghdad helicopter landing zone. The war was going badly, he told them. Troops were stretched so thin they were doing tasks they never dreamed of, let alone...
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BAGHDAD -- U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years.
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At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own unit's mission to Iraq.
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In Iraq, the list of places from which American soldiers have either withdrawn or decided to visit only rarely is growing.
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BAGHDAD -- When Specialist Matthew Curll left basic training for Iraq nearly a year ago, he traded a bland diet of MREs for burgers, pie, and Fudgsicles.
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In Iraq, a new strategy pushes soldiers out of large bases and into communities.
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The U.S. military commander in one of the more troubled areas of Iraq said Friday that that the call to begin troop withdrawals before the end of the year would be "a giant step backward."