Sgt Stryker

Service members ran a race, played golf blindfolded and choked down the “nastiest” food the chow hall had to offer last December 5 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. They did all this to raise money for the Combined Federal Campaign – Overseas. Senior Master Sgt. Bryan Shipman, a superintendant of protocol with the 332nd Air [...]

A web-based project, called “30 Days Through Afghanistan,” concluded, March 15, 2010. The words, pictures and video were presented at a “DoD Live” bloggers roundtable on March 25, 2010. It was all the brainchild of Air Force Tech. Sgts. Ken Raimondi, whose background is in broadcasting, and Nathan Gallahan, a photojournalist. Both soldiers are based [...]

In the southern province of Dhi Qar in Iraq, the US military is continuing the mission of peace in Iraq by helping the small scale local government there. The Army’s civil affairs teams and the United States Agency for International Development have got together to create a District Government Support Team. That team has solved [...]

If you know anything about the history of Afghanistan, you know that women have been oppressed in that country for quite a few years. With the changes taking place since the fall of the Taliban in that country, things are looking brighter and brighter for women all the time. Case in point – a new [...]