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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — When the Marine unit that suffered the greatest casualties in the 10-year Afghan war returned home last spring, they didn’t rush back to their everyday lives. SEE ALSO: Get Out! Woman Offers Sex For McNuggets Instead, the Marine Corps put them into a kind of decompression chamber, keeping them at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans probably won’t be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it’s not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War. RELATED: Obama […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A soldier who survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan continues to fight for his life after he was critically wounded at his Southern California homecoming party. SEE ALSO: Detroit Cops Link Double Trunk Murders To Website Babysitter Arrested For Little Girl’s Death Police on Monday arrested Ruben Ray Jurado after […]
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — Blending solemn tradition with joyous reunion, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq returned home to U.S. soil Tuesday, greeted by his wife and his president in an understated ceremony to mark the end of a nine-year conflict that has defined a generation. SEE ALSO: Condi For VP? President […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will mark the end of the war in Iraq at a special ceremony Tuesday. RELATED: The War Is Over! The president will be joined by Vice President Joe Biden at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for the return of the United States Forces-Iraq colors, the flag that was lowered […]
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney issued a harsh rebuke of President Obama’s decision to withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of year. “President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and […]
The Obama administration will reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, according to Fox News’ sources. Military generals requested that the number of troops remaining in Iraq reach 27,000, but issues with “the cost and the political optics” reduced the projected number to much lower […]
