Army meets its retention goal
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Staff Sgt. Michael Obleton has already done two tours in Iraq, dodging roadside bombs as he drove trucks in Army convoys across the hostile countryside.
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The Bush administration said Wednesday that Britain's decision to withdraw 1,600 troops from Iraq is a positive sign that fits with the overall strategy for stabilizing the country.
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Army chiefs are poised to decided the fate of Scotland's six infantry regiments, in a meeting to seal their future.
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Pakistan&#39;s Senate on Friday passed a bill to allow President Pervez Musharraf to stay on as army chief despite his promise to quit as army chief by December 31st, 2004.
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The U.S. Army, strained by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, missed its recruiting goal for the second straight month in June, indicating a trend that some defense officials on Monday called worrying.
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In the latest signs of strains on the military from the war in Iraq, the Army National Guard announced on Thursday that it had fallen 30 percent below its recruiting goals
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Holding troops in place for 120 days is another indication of the strains the drawn-out wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have put on the Army.
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The Army says it is on course for a bumper year for recruitment in Wales despite ongoing conflicts overseas.
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U.S. troop levels in Iraq will likely remain at the current number -- more than 140,000 -- through next spring, the senior U.S. commander in the Middle East said today.
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When Iraq's 202nd National Guard Battalion faced insurgents six months ago, it simply, in the words of one American general, "evaporated." Now, the same outfit, tested in recent combat, is being touted as a vital building block of the force the United States says will increasingly replace its own troops on the front lines.
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A search for investing opportunities in military and defense.
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More than 90 percent of the Army's new recruits since late July have accepted a $20,000 "quick ship" bonus to leave for basic combat training by the end of September, putting thousands of Americans into uniform almost immediately.
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The Army National Guard has failed for two months to meet its recruiting quotas, falling about 30 percent below its overall target.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's intended transformation of the Army into a quick, mobile force has started to rub against the daily demands of patching enough tanks and trucks together to keep fighting the war.
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WEST POINT, NY - Army&#39;s sprint football team will conclude its 2004 campaign Friday evening when the Black Knights take on Navy with the Collegiate Sprint Football League title hanging in the balance.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday he had agreed to stay in his job and hoped US troops would be pulled out of Iraq during the Bush administration&#39;s second four-year term.
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ZORMAT, Afghanistan  - U.S. troops in east Afghanistan might be eager for their 15-month tour to end but even as they wait they say would have achieved little had they stayed only six months like NATO troops elsewhere.