Thirteen Injured After Soldier Drove Car Into A Crowd In Germany

As many as thirteen people were injured when a soldier drove his car into a crowd of people at an army base in the town of Bad Salzungen in Germany. The incident happened in the early hours of the morning on Monday when the car drove into a group of 30 soldiers gathered near...

Joint Task Force-East Soldier trains Romanian/Bulgarian Allies

By SSgt Jessica Switzer MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania – Nearly 40 years ago, murals depicting the glory of the Soviet military were freshly painted at the Novo Selo training area in Bulgaria. Today, nearly 20 years after the end of the Cold War they are...

Life for US soldier's Iraq crimes

" A former US soldier convicted of rape and murder while serving in Iraq will spend life in prison, a judge in the US state of Kentucky has confirmed. Steven Green, 24, is to serve five consecutive life sentences...

Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry'

" The US army officer convicted for his part in the notorious My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has offered his first public apology, a US report says. "There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel...

UK soldier died helping comrade

" A British soldier killed by a bomb in Afghanistan was helping a comrade who had been caught in an earlier blast. Sjt Paul McAleese, 29, of 2nd Battalion The Rifles, went to the aid of Pte Jonathon Young, 18, from...

US Military Slams Video Of Captured Soldier

"US Military Slams Video Of Captured Soldier " "The release of a Taliban video showing a US soldier who was seized in Afghanistan has been criticised by the American military. " " The footage...

The Media, Michael Jackson, and Dead Soldiers

by Yvette D. Carnell"The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her nephew, 1st Lt Brian Bradshaw, was killed when an explosive device detonated near his...

I'm only 16. They gave me a rifle. It was heavy.

Former child soldiers undergoing rehabilitation program in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka talks to Gethin Chamberlain of the Guardian. Some of them are impatient to get back to their families, but some are plain relieved...

Kidnapped soldier ‘tortured, murdered’

" DAVAO CITY -- Communist rebels tortured and killed an Army soldier they abducted last week in Compostela Valley province, military officials said Sunday. The bullet-riddled body of Staff Sergeant Rollen Maglangit...

Iraqi forces now securing historical Ziggurat at Ur

On May 13th, 2009, security of the historic and well-preserved Ziggurat of Ur was officially returned to Iraqi authorities from Coalition forces. ""What you see here today has been set up by the Iraqi people,"...

U.S. soldier charged with murder in Iraq identified

" A 44-year-old communications specialist from Sherman, Texas, Russell is serving his third tour in Iraq and has previously deployed to Bosnia and Kosovo, according to his service record. His father, Wilburn...

U.S. soldier kills 5 fellow troops at Baghdad base: Pentagon

I just saw this on CNN.  There are few details so far. "U.S. soldier kills 5 fellow troops at Baghdad base: Pentagon BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says five American soldiers have been killed in a shooting...

UK soldier shot and killed in Afghanistan

A Scottish soldier from the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion in the Royal Regiment of Scotland has been killed in southern Afghanistan. This death brings the UK total of dead soldiers killed on operations in Afghanistan since 2001 to 154. "A British soldier has been killed in...

Runner who died was Fort Campbell soldier

"By Jennifer Brooks • THE TENNESSEAN • April 27, 2009 The 25-year-old runner who collapsed and died after crossing the finish line at the Country Music Half Marathon on Saturday has been identified as...

For wounded soldier, citizenship is 'icing on the cake'

" Alcivar, 25, was sworn in as a United States citizen on Friday, some 20 years after coming to the United States, four years after joining the Army, and months after a sniper outside Baghdad, Iraq, shot him in the leg. At any given time, roughly 40,000 noncitizens serve in...

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