Navy Reservist With 11 Kids Heads to Iraq
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Johnnie Chennault has no regrets about joining the Navy Reserve, even though it means he's going to Iraq later this month. But he does worry about not being around to help take care of his house full of 11 kids.
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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 have been  court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own  mission to Iraq.
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A member of Pfc. Lynndie England's defense team said Friday that the Army will soon announce it will court-martial the reservist, one of the most recognizable figures in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
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The U.S. military in Iraq has  disciplined 18 soldiers who refused to go out on a transport  convoy they thought was too dangerous, but the reservists will  not face court-martial, a military spokesman said Monday.
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The Pentagon this week plans to alert at least seven National Guard units to be ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009 as the military's reserve forces are increasingly called upon to relieve the strain on active-duty troops, officials said yesterday.
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Recruit the soldier. Retain the family. That's been common wisdom at the Pentagon for ages.
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Next week, the Class of 2011 will be sworn in at the U.S. Naval Academy &#151; a new batch of midshipmen and a fresh chance for the institution after a tough several months.
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The US Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, plans to summon a similar number next year for duty
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Critical to the war effort in Iraq, the National Guard and Army Reserve are drawing fewer enlistees. Will the troop shortage worsen?
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AP Correspondent Rebecca Santana is embedded with the New Jersey National Guard at Camp Anaconda, Iraq. And AP Correspondent Robert H. Reid covers Iraq events from Baghdad for The Associated Press.
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It had been a pretty glum day for Spec. Brian Parker, who along with the other members of his National Guard unit said goodbye to their families and departed on a charter flight for a long-term stint in Iraq.
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Black Watch soldiers have held their last church service at their base near Basra in Iraq, before their move north. The battalion is getting its weapons, ammunition and Warrior armoured vehicles ready for the move to an area under American command.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 15--GULFPORT -- More than 100 service members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 left Gulfport on Wednesday as the final phase of one of the largest Seabee deployment operations.
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The Pentagon notified U.S. military  combat units based in seven states on Tuesday that they are  likely to be part of next-year's planned rotation of American  forces into Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Family Readiness Group, which was activated at the same time the troops were, helps families sort through everything from loneliness to life insurance.
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Most of the troops lost in the U.S. military's deadliest crash of the Iraq war were based in Hawaii, but they came from coast to coast, from Florida to New Hampshire, from Ohio to Oregon. One was a 28-year-old who never got the chance to meet his son born on Christmas Eve.
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ABOARD THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD -- When Lance Corporal Keith Delatorre boarded this warship in San Diego a month ago, he thought he was on his way to Iraq. Now, he's loading up his gear for a very different mission, bringing badly needed aid to Indonesians left isolated by the tsunami that battered coastlines along the Indian Ocean.