Cobra Gold troops assist local orphanage

"CHIANG MAI, Thailand - As part of Exercise Cobra Gold 09, Singaporean and U.S. servicemembers came together Feb. 14 and 15 to lend a helping hand to a local children's home. For more than ten years Nikki's Place Agape Home has housed approximately 100 children infected with...

DoD Announces New Relocation Tool for Families

" WASHINGTON, April 28, 2008 – It’s almost peak moving season again for military families, and Defense Department leaders want families to know new resources are available to help. “Plan My Move,” soft-launched in late summer, is the next generation...

Coalition Treats Afghans in Medical Outreach Effort

" BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2008 – Several hundred citizens from a village near Tag Ab Valley in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province swarmed a makeshift hospital April 19 during a village medical outreach hosted by Task Force Gladiator servicemembers....

Why is this Happening To Our Servicemembers?

I got an email this evening from a high school friend of mine that is in military. The tone of her email was grave and is very upset. She said –“what we can do about these single parents that are fighting so hard for our freedom and have their children taken away...

US Hires Mercenaries for African Operations

The US has a long history of outsourcing for military operations. All those "contractors" we read aobut in Iraq? Mercenaries. The issue here is of accountability. Mercenaries are not subject to the same legal scrutiny as official soldiers, though that has been meaning less...