U.S. Army soldiers follow a road during a dismounted patrol to get a better observation of the landscape below the Afghan Security Guard Tower 3 outside of Forward Operating Base Baylough in Zabul province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 20, 2009. The soldiers are from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, United States Army Europe. The 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment is deployed throughout southern Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. DoD photo by Spc. Tia P. Sokimson, U.S. Army.
For better and sometimes worse, alcohol is a common battle buddy. Troops use it to celebrate after a long deployment and to self-medicate when the euphoria fades, leaving only stress, emotions and memories.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is trying to prevent the Obama administration from holding criminal trials in civilian courts for the alleged Sept. 11 plotters instead of bringing them before military commissions.
A truck driver who lost control of a semitrailer carrying missile parts from North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base was distracted by a "large insect" that flew in a window and landed on the driver's back, the military said in a report released.
Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.
STEP ASIDE, Rin Tin Tin -- the TV German shepherd who helped U.S. cavalry soldiers tame the Wild West. Here comes "Dog Jack," a new film inspired by the true story of a heroic Civil War bull dog from Pittsburgh.
Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital that killed four of the assailants and at least six soldiers, authorities said.
