Soldier fights a different battle
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If there was a hero-of-the-week award we could hand out, this week it would surely have to go to Army Specialist Thomas J. Wilson.
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There&#39;s all that shooting, for one thing. Stuff blowing up. People getting maimed and killed. All of which is pretty bad. But what&#39;s even worse is that the soldiers cuss.
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In a grimly familiar scenario, the civilians were caught in a battle between Taliban and NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, the police said today.
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Two British soldier were wounded, one of them fatally, during a battle Tuesday with Taliban guerrillas in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
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Life with the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment in southern Afghanistan is a battle not only against a stealthy and stubborn enemy but against some of the earth&#039;s harshest natural elements.
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As rebels, soldiers and pro-government militia fight on, civilians pay the price
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Corp. Eugenio Mendoza, a young veteran of the Iraq war, had to carry his buddy for 50 yards, scale an 8-foot wall and crawl through a water-logged tunnel at the 4th International Sniper Competition, where the challenges are designed to simulate combat scenarios in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The soldier is willing to fight to the death in Baghdad's mean streets, but when he hears two words -- John Kerry -- he cringes.
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An American soldier has been critically injured in an insurgent attack on his vehicle in Afghanistan that also wounded two other US soldiers.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Spread across several tables in a vast warehouse here are the pieces of one soldier's life.
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A Marine fires on a wounded man in a Fallujah mosque, and the world asks: Was it a war crime? Rules of engagement. That&#39;s code for what US soldiers are allowed to do on the battlefield, and it&#39;s never simple.
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A soldier who is again absent without leave said his lawyer has repeatedly tried to speak with the Army about his status but the military is ignoring the subject.
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As the insurgents in Iraq step up their attacks, the Army has increased the intensity of its training of battlefield medics. That has meant moving the training from classrooms to more realistic settings and teaching medics to keep fighting the enemy &#151; even if it means sometimes delaying treatment of the wounded.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - George Perez lost his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq more than a year ago, but despite the phantom pains that haunt him, he says he is determined to prove to the Army that he is no less of a man - and no less of a soldier...
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Coalition troops clashed with insurgents in two battles Saturday in fighting that left four U.S. and two Afghan soldiers dead and six other Americans wounded, officials said.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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On Scene: A soldier learns to fiddle, while NATO tries to douse Afghanistan's fires