Army Emphasizes Convoy Training
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Pvt. Timothy Parsons' convoy was stalled by a roadside bomb that hit another Humvee. He took aim at targets on the ground as smoke filled the air, firing from his vehicle while others helped retrieve soldiers in the damaged one.
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The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia has launched planning for more extensive use of U.S. troops to train Pakistani armed forces
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A report into the care and training of military recruits is expected to find siginifcant improvements.
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FORT STEWART, Ga. -- Army soldiers are being issued new fatigues with easy-to-use Velcro openings and a redesigned camouflage pattern that can help conceal them as they move rapidly from desert to forest to city in places like Baghdad.
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Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for far-flung operations.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for ...
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The military is ordering more lightweight armor developed in Ohio that protects troops in Humvees from automatic weapons fire and grenades without slowing the vehicles. Unarmored Humvees have become targets in the war in Iraq.
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A U.S. military convoy of at least 40 armored vehicles was seen moving toward Fallujah, while British troops in southern Iraq headed north to plug any gaps that an offensive on the city might create.
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Troops from the United States and three east African nations will stage a joint military and crisis-response exercise this month, the first such operation in six years, officials said.
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NICE, France -- Several NATO nations, encouraged by the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, are offering to train Iraqi security forces in their own countries, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
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The army is seeking more production  of the most fully armor-protected "Humvee" military vehicles,  defense officials said on Friday, after a soldier's complaint  to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that troops had to use  scrap metal to protect vehicles in Iraq.
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To enable soldiers to give critical medical care to comrades on the battlefield, the Army will begin teaching combat lifesaving techniques to recruits during basic training.
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"The med techs have experienced some pretty harrowing experiences last year providing care under fire ... and having to actually do those things that medics are trained to do - provide life-saving treatment in combat conditions"  (CP) - Six Canadian army medics are bringing their hands-on experience in Afghanistan to a military training exercise on the edge of the Baltic Sea where 1,700 NATO troops are sharing their battlefield skills.The two-week training operation at the Lithuanian army base of Klaipeda is called Amber Hope. It involves personnel from 10 NATO countries, including Canada, Germany, Poland, Finland and the United States.Maj. John Crook, Canada's senior representative at the exercise, says he and his five colleagues from 1 Field Ambulance at Edmonton Garrison, all served in Afghanistan recently. Read more
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WASHINGTON -- In a diplomatic victory for the United States, NATO officials agreed yesterday to send hundreds of military advisers to Iraq this year to train local security forces as part of a new task force that could eventually grow to 3,000 personnel. Trainers from France, Germany, and other nations that bitterly opposed the US-led invasion are expected to join ...
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BAGHDAD, July 8 -- Everything in the Army is supposed to have a task and a purpose, and this simple mission was no different. The task was to get 27 soldiers from Point A to Point B, from their neighborhood combat outpost to an Army base four miles away. The purpose was to attend a memorial service...
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The head of the Afghan National Army said Monday his country is pushing the United States to accelerate training and equipping his army so the Afghans can fight the Taliban on their own.