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Assault victims in military face tough recovery
EDITORS NOTE - With troops fighting on foreign soil since late 2001, the United States is learning about the long-term toll of modern war on the home front. The last of a three-part series looks at victims of sexual assault in the military.
GIs getting more bomb protection in Afghanistan
The Defense Department will send close to 800 more bomb-resistant vehicles to Afghanistan, where a resurgent Taliban has military leaders developing plans to add thousands of U.S. troop reinforcements.  Some US soldiers in Iraq yearn to be in Afghan warSpc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he's missing the real war - in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.
CBS files appeal over Haditha interview
CBS News has appealed a ruling by a military appellate court that ordered a judge to review unaired footage of an interview given by a Marine squad leader charged in the killings of 24 Iraqis.
An HBO miniseries traces the start of the Iraq War
The narrative of war on "Generation Kill" unfolds as an exercise in readiness and restless waiting, along with misdirection from higher-ups.
Combat simulation at Duluth Air Show criticized
Some community members are calling for a boycott of the Duluth Air Show because of a combat simulation that U.S. Army recruiters will bring to the show.  Police show cars owned by Saddam's sonCar lovers in Iraq, tired of an endless parade of sand-colored Humvees, got a bit of a treat Monday when police discovered five fancy cars - each a tad dusty - once owned by a notorious son of former dictator Saddam Hussein.  Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robotThe knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
7 immigrants in military posthumous US citizens
Pfc. Dawid Pietrek became a U.S. citizen on the day he was laid to rest.
Iraq vet's movie helps him cope with war stress
Counseling and medication weren't enough help Laef Fox recover from his grim war experience in Iraq, and drugs and alcohol didn't work either, so he tried making a movie instead. |
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