I have known for a week or so that the search for the missing soldier in Afghanistan has been referred to as “Operation Where’s Waldo”, but have kept that name to myself.
It appears that my buddy PJ Tobia has decided not to keep it a secret any longer and has some updates on what may be behind this rare disappearance over on his blog called the Afghan Desk.
Bouhammer.com in conjunction with KissMyGumbo.com and Vision Strike Wear have developed and has for sale the very first Twitter-themed T-shirt honoring Military Monday, which is designated by the hashtag #militarymon.
The front of the shirt has the hashtag #militarymon and the back of it has one cool and tough looking twitter bird all decked out ready to kick butt and tweet names. The #militarymon hashtag to honor military tweeters on every Monday was conceived by Greta from www.kissmygumbo.com and TV personality Carson Daly. The #militarymon trend has really taken off and the popularity of it grows every week.
Recognizing the popularity of this trend on twitter, Bouhammer.com and Vision Strike Wear have developed this shirt and have decided to donate all proceeds to the Project Valour-IT program.
Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries. Technology supplied includes:
Voice-controlled Laptops – Operated by speaking into a microphone or using other adaptive technologies, they allow the wounded to maintain connections with the rest of the world during recovery.
Wii Video Game Systems – Whole-body game systems increase motivation and speed recovery when used under the guidance of physical therapists in therapy sessions (donated only to medical facilities).
Personal GPS – Handheld GPS devices build self-confidence and independence by compensating for short-term memory loss and organizational challenges related to severe TBI and severe PTSD.
Reprinted from US Forces- Afghanistan Facebook Page
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan-coalition force conducted a complex mission last night in Giro District of Ghazni Province to disrupt the Taliban network’s operational and logistical support lines of ambush units in the region.
The combined force conducted the mission after intelligence sources indicated militant activity in the area. During the operation, a search of a compound unveiled a large cache of weapons which were confiscated and included the following items: 21 grenades, nine rocket-propelled grenades, three rocket-propelled grenade launchers, one loaded PKM, seven chest racks, more than a thousand rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition and one complete improvised explosive device with command wire, five blasting caps, multimeter and IED circuit boards.
Upon the forces’ arrival, they immediately encountered hostile fire from one of the compounds and engaged the enemy, resulting in several enemy killed and one enemy wounded. A number of armed militants fled the compound and were pursued by detachments of the force and killed. Four suspected militants were detained during the operation.
The Haqqani network remains one of the most lethal Taliban organizations operating out of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area. Haqqani leaders conduct operations in conjunction with other Islamic militant groups with similar goals and interests. The network focuses operations against the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Afghan National Security Forces and seeks to expel coalition and NATO forces from Afghanistan to maintain its influence in eastern provinces.
North Korea appears "seriously interested" in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States to acknowledge what Pyongyang sees as their "hostile acts," a U.S.-based scholar who visited Pyongyang said.
The 4,000 U.S. Marines now pushing deep into Taliban-controlled tracts as part of an expanded war in southern Afghanistan are setting up fire bases amid some of the most productive poppy fields in the world's opium-producing capital.
A judge Friday sentenced a Fort Carson soldier to three years in prison for crashing his speeding car into a couple on a motorcycle, killing them both.
Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces. The mass deaths were brought up anew Friday in a report by The New York Times on its Web site.
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