BALTIMORE (AP) â After weeks of round-the-clock medical care, Brendan Marrocco insisted on rolling his own wheelchair into a news conference using his new transplanted arms. Then he brushed his hair to one side. Such simple tasks would go unnoticed in most patients. But for Marrocco, who lost all four limbs while serving in Iraq, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) â The Pentagon‘s decision to lift the ban on women serving in combat presents a daunting challenge to top military leaders who now will have to decide which, if any, jobs they believe should be open only to men. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to announce Thursday that more than 230,000 battlefront […]
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Officials say four veterans were killed after a train slammed into a parade float stuck on a railroad crossing in West Texas. Midland city spokesman Ryan Stout says 37-year-old Sgt. Maj. Gary Stouffer and 47-year-old Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident Thursday afternoon. Stout […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A series of miscommunications, poor guidance and soldiers' decisions to take "the easy way instead of the right way" resulted in the burning of Qurans and other religious books at a U.S. base in Afghanistan early this year, a military investigation released Monday concluded. The U.S. military said six Army soldiers escaped […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost afraid to say it out loud, lest they jinx their record, U.S. troops in Afghanistan achieved one small but important victory over the past year: They found and avoided more homemade bombs meant to kill and maim them than a year ago, thanks to a surge in training, equipment and intelligence. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides are surging among America's troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation's decade of war. The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 percent more […]
With high unemployment among veterans and their spouses, a foundation has launched a six-month social media campaign to get them working again. The I Am Not A HERO Foundation, Inc. kicked off its program on Memorial Day weekend, the first major holiday in the calendar year that recognizes military men, women and their families who […]
