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DVIDS RSS 2.0 Feed News: - Marines celebrate 234th birthday aboard Al Asad Air Base November 12, 2009Each year, military correspondents across the globe work hard to put down on paper the significance of Nov. 10 to Marines worldwide. The Marine Corps birthday is saturated with deep rooted traditions and represents a culmination of more than 200 years of leatherneck pride that is almost impossible to capture with the written word.
- A runner to the Corps November 12, 2009Many Soldiers find it difficult and inconvenient to conduct physical training in a field environment. Temperatures in Iraq can top out near 150 degrees and running in a dust storm is no picnic.
- IPs, MPs conduct police transition team training November 12, 2009The 57th Military Police Company has spent the past three months building a partnership with the Iraqi police in Al Amarah, Maysan Province, Iraq in order to improve their ability to govern and secure the local populace.
- First intelligence course graduates ISF Soldiers November 12, 2009The first Iraqi soldiers to attend intelligence training at Contingency Operating Base Basra graduated Nov. 5. Special Operations Soldiers from all over Multi-National Division-South attended the two week course designed to teach intelligence tasks and techniques.
- N.C. female warrant officer leads the way November 12, 2009Newly promoted Chief Warrant Officer 4 Elizabeth Bohannon, the first female Soldier to achieve this rank in the North Carolina National Guard, juggles folders and papers, as her sock monkey stands guard on her desk, screening incoming traffic in need of her attention.
- Experience earned and shared November 12, 2009Much is expected of non-commissioned officers serving in a combat zone. From leading Soldiers on dangerous patrols to conducting training for individual Soldier growth, NCOs are expected to do a little bit of everything.
- Dual military couple deployed: A shared sacrifice November 12, 2009
- Navy EOD Trains Iraqi forces to fight IEDs November 12, 2009An Oregon Native works with the Iraqi army bomb disposal units and Iraqi police counter explosive teams. He teaches the IA tactics, techniques and procedures on how to defeat a network of people who place and build improvised explosive devices all across northern Iraq.
- Operational Update, Nov. 12: Afghan-International Joint Security Forces Detain Taliban Commander, Haqqani Facilitator, Militants in Southern Afghanistan November 12, 2009Afghan and international security forces killed several enemy militants and detained a group of suspected militants in Zankhan district, Ghazni province, today. Those detained included a sought after Taliban commander who was in charge of as many as 50 fighters.
- Veterans Day holds new meaning to Soldiers, Marines in Iraq November 11, 2009Surrounded by fellow service members, 157 Soldiers and Marines, representing 60 countries, sat in the rotunda of Camp Victory's Al Faw Palace in Baghdad Nov. 11, during a naturalization ceremony. Their wait would soon be over and their future would begin— this time as a United States citizen.
- Marines celebrate 234th birthday aboard Al Asad Air Base November 12, 2009
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- Norway: Kidnapped journalist freed in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! News) November 12, 2009Norway's Foreign Ministry says that a Norwegian journalist who was kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan has been released.
- Obama wants revised Afghanistan war options (AP via Yahoo! News) November 12, 2009President Barack Obama won't accept any of the Afghanistan war options before him without changes, a senior administration official said, as concerns soar over the ability of the Afghan government to secure its own country one day.
- Obama seeks revisions to Afghanistan plans, sources say (CNN) November 12, 2009President Obama told his war council Wednesday that the U.S. troop commitment to Afghanistan is not open-ended, and he asked for revisions to options he previously received for sending more troops, a senior administration official told CNN.
- MIA dog found in Afghanistan after 14 months (AP via Yahoo! News) November 12, 2009A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year.
- US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 836 (AP via Yahoo! News) November 12, 2009As of Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, at least 836 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST.
- Norway: Kidnapped journalist freed in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! News) November 12, 2009
