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Lt. Col. David Dressel, a pilot with the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, poses in front of an A-10 Thunderbolt II at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Dressel, a native of Watertown, Minn., has flown more than 3,000 hours in the A-10 and is on track to reach 500 combat hours during his current deployment. Photo by: [...]

5th Special Forces Group Commander Col. Chris Conner thanks Larry Kutschma of the Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars for donations to family readiness groups. Kutschma, a district commander, also brought 50 turkeys to donate to Group families for the holidays. Wisconsin VFW posts contributing to the donations were Kutschma’s own Como Memorial VFW Post 5811 [...]

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and his delegation depart from Cornwallis Park in Nova Scotia, Canada, after attending discussions on the approach to counter-insurgency as part of Afghanistan’s Regional Command South, Nov. 21, 2008. DoD photo by Air Force Tech Sgt. Jerry Morrison As November comes to a close, here’s a look at the [...]

“They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” That verse from the bible is being put into affect in Afghanistan by Coalition forces and local Afghan farmers. Next Spring in the country, two agri-business development teams are being deployed. Basically, they will be National Guard soldiers with experience and expertise [...]

The American Forces Press Service has recently come up with a four part series of articles called the Wounded Warrior Diaries. Written by Navy Lt. Jennifer Cragg, the articles explore the lives of four different people in the military and how being wounded in action has changed their life. Although they deal with sad issues [...]

Sgt. 1st Class Pedro Sotomayor (center), an armor crew member from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and platoon sergeant assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, directs a team of dismounts to search houses along a street in Hayy Jihad Nov. 11 during security [...]

You would think with all the talk of a long (very long) with no end in sight war on terror, people would be thinking about getting out of the military if they can. A lot of people are deciding to reenlist when their term is up, though. In Iraq, on Veterans Day, nearly 300 service [...]

The US Military currently has troops stationed all over the world. Here’s a look at some of the thing going on in the military the last few days. United States: A new website, One Freedom, was launched this week. The website is, “is a portal for our nation’s warriors and for everyone who cares about [...]

Earlier this week on Monday, a day before Veterans Day 2008, the New York Times revealed that Donald Rumsfeld had signed a secret order for the US military to have a fast track to go after Al Qaeda – wherever and whenever. This Shadow War against Al Qaeda was fought alongside the more publicized “war [...]

They are dead; but they live in each patriot’s breast, and their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest,” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Veterans Day is celebrated on November 11 because it was on November 11, 1918 that World War I (known as the war to end all wars) started to slow down. The Treaty [...]