Paratrooper Who Lost Leg in War Re-Enlists
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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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CAMP ZAMA, Japan, Sept. 11 -- Nearly 40 years after he allegedly defected to communist North Korea, U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins was back in uniform Saturday, billeted on this American military post and preparing to face charges against him.
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U.S. troops have recovered personal effects of a U.S. Marine who was once feared beheaded by Iraqi insurgents after disappearing from his unit, U.S. officials said.
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Every day for weeks on end, injured Army pilot Joseph Luciano talked to an answering machine at Walter Reed hospital, trying to get an appointment for a heart scan. Then he called the Army's new Wounded Soldier and Family Hotline. Within six hours, he got the appointment &#151; along with an apology from the colonel who heads Walter Reed Army Medical Center's radiology department.
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Soldier facing charges for trying to kill herself last year attempts suicide again, one of a record number who have tried or succeeded in ending their lives after serving in Iraq, Afghanistan.
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by JEREMY REDMON of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Mosul, Iraq. Two GIs desperately carry their wounded buddy between them, dragging him from the shattered remains of what had been a bustling mess hall in Iraq.
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RADCLIFF, Kentucky  - A decorated U.S. Army veteran who was wounded in Iraq and then deserted to Canada to protest the war as a mistake surrendered to the military on Tuesday.
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The servicemen killed in a Nimrod crash in Afghanistan are being flown back to their Moray home base.
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Spec. Aaron Bugg had the muscles in his legs severed while in Iraq but Saturday he walked down the aisle with the woman he has loved since junior high.
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Â· Record deployment of paratroopersÂ· Country may be sliding to civil war
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn't be saved. His military career, though, pulled through.
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On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others around him, Calloway...
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Whenever Lt. Col. Andrew Lourake visits Ward 57 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he takes along a sheaf full of stories to buck up service members who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The military health-care system canât keep pace with the flood of battlefield casualties. Max Cleland--Vietnam vet, triple amputee, and former U.S. senator--on the roots of the crisis, and what needs to be done.
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Islamic group&#39;s armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades. Doctors said he suffered leg wounds.
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Spc. Robert Loria of Middletown, N.Y., lost his arm in Iraq, but instead of a farewell paycheck from the Army he got a bill for nearly &#36;1,800. On Friday a platoon of New York lawmakers came to his rescue. Loria found himself stuck in Fort Hood in Texas this week when Army officials said he owed money for travel expenses and for lost equipment.