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Maryland Guard travels dangerous road in hopes of Afghan peace
For the soldiers of Task Force Raven in Afghanistan, the tempo is high, the roads are rough, and the work is dangerous.
The Maryland National Guardsmen, members of the 1297th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, carry equipment through insurgent-...Tags: Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, National Government, NATO
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Eleanor A. Laun
Eleanor A. Laun, a combat nurse who served with the Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II, died Jan. 10 of complications from a stroke at the Charlestown retirement community.
The longtime Ten Hills resident was 94.
Eleanor A. McNelis...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Television, Tuberculosis, Africa, Medical Specialization
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Funeral service for Md. soldier killed in Afghanistan
The family and friends of a Maryland soldier killed in Afghanistan are remembering him at a funeral service in Woodsboro. The service for Army Spc. Ronald Wildrick Jr. is set for Thursday morning at the Woodsboro Volunteer Fire Company activities...Tags: Afghanistan
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Ron Paul, the anti-war candidate
Voters who are weary of endless war may have no choice at the presidential level next November. This is a very large group to be denied a vote on a key issue.
A CNN/ORC poll released in November found that 68 percent of Americans opposed the war in...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, Fox News Channel (tv network), Pakistan
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APG joins University of Delaware in effort to improve care for wounded warriors, civilians
The Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the University of Delaware have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement to collaborate on an orthopedic rehabilitation project that will improve rehabilitative care for wounded...Tags: Research and Development, Injuries and Wounds, World War II (1939-1945), Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health
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'Bugsplat': the civilian toll of war
"The Lakotah had no language for insulting other orders of existence: pest, waste, weed ..."
But what about "bugsplat"?
That's the word for the cop at UC Davis, walking up and down the line of students sitting with their arms locked, zapping them in the...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, University of California, Davis, Pakistan, NATO, Iraq
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U.S. and Pakistan: Uneasy allies
News that the U.S. has resumed drone strikes in Pakistan, killing at least three suspected militants last week in the tribal areas of North Waziristan along that country's border with Afghanistan, could hardly come at a more delicate moment for U.S.-...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Pakistan, NATO, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Osama bin Laden
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Lessons learned in Iraq, Rwanda
Letter writer Paul R. Schlitz Jr. can't seem to grasp the fact that an acknowledgment of Iraq's potential to harbor weapons of mass destruction doesn't necessarily indicate current agreement with the decision to invade, nor does it require someone to...Tags: Saddam Hussein, International Military Interventions, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Iraq, Massacres
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Home for Christmas
This week, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq. After more than eight years of fighting an ill-conceived, inexcusably prolonged war made more devastating by official ineptitude and hubris, America's soldiers are coming home for Christmas. The nation...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Saddam Hussein, International Military Interventions, Holidays
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Drop the 'two-war' plan
As defense strategists at the Pentagon carry out their review of how to make roughly $400 billion in cuts over 10 years, and Congress considers the possibility of reductions twice as large as required by the supercommittee's failure to reach agreement,...Tags: China, Saddam Hussein, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq
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Assad: A dictator in denial
You have to hand it to Syria's Bashar Assad; the man's got chutzpah. His interview in Damascus last week with ABC's Barbara Walters was either a case study in delusional thinking or unbounded cynicism. Mr. Assad's amazing performance, in which he denied...Tags: Turkey, Barbara Walters, Demonstration, Wars and Interventions, Syrian Uprising (2011-12)
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U.S. brings Iraq war to an end
Flying over Iraq this week, Maryland National Guard Col. David W. Carey surveyed miles and miles of emptiness.
Where 500 U.S. bases once housed as many as 170,000 troops, the American military footprint had shrunk to two bases and 4,000 soldiers —...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, Iraq, Leon Panetta
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