Thousands of people from around the country were in Virginia Beach over the weekend to celebrate America’s 400th anniversary and to rededicate our nation to God.
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BAGHDAD — A plain building with barred windows and stacked-up chairs symbolizes the U.S. Army’s hopes for training Iraqi military health workers.
Steps away from one of the country’s busiest emergency rooms, the structure is being turned into a schoolhouse with laptop computers and high-tech dummies that breathe and bleed.
About 30 Iraqis have been trained in American-style emergency medicine under a program at Ibn Sina Hospital, which is run by the 28th Combat Support Hospital.
The program’s goal is to polish the trauma-related skills of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health workers so the Iraqis can resume control of Ibn Sina, a center formerly used for the care of Saddam Hussein’s family and Iraqi government officials, according to Maj. Murray Kramer, a coordinator with the Army Reserves’ 3rd Medical Command, which manages the program.
Read more here: mnf-iraq.com
An 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron aircrew works with Army personnel in Afghanistan to rig a C-17 for an airdrop mission in February. The squadron has seen an increase in airdop missions during its rotation. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Erik Hofmeyer.
SOUTHWEST ASIA - “Bringing the bombs, beans and bullets to the warfighter” is how Capt. Aaron Oelrich described the mission of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron while on his way to fly an airlift mission into Iraq.
And “bring it” they do, to the tune of about one million pounds of cargo daily.
The 816th EAS, a 379th Air Expeditionary Wing tenant unit, is approaching the end of its four-month rotation after directly supporting and sustaining ground combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since Dec. 31. The C-17s provide theater logistical options for CENTCOM leadership through the airlifting and airdropping of personnel and supplies, and the expedited evacuation of wounded servicemembers.
Read more here: mnf-iraq.com
Coalition forces killed 136 Taliban combatants and captured two suspects during operations in Afghanistan over the past four days.
During a raid this morning in the Khowst district of Khowst province, coalition forces detained two men at a suspected al Qaeda safe house. Upon arriving at the site, coalition forces discovered the men trying to hide an automatic weapon, ammunition and military-style load-bearing vests.
The raid was conducted based on credible reports of recent sightings of militants and weapons at the compound, military officials said. The detainees will be questioned to determine their identities and their affiliation with violent extremists in the area. No shots were fired, and there were no injuries during the operation.
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Gerald Darsch, director of Department of Defense combat feeding, demonstrates the Unitized Group Ration-Express to Sgt. 1st Class Mark Danley, left, and Spc. Tina Avalos, both of 5th Corps, April 27, 2007.
(Photo by Juan R. Meléndez, Jr.)
HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 30, 2007 – Soldiers here recently tested two new rations being fielded for servicemembers this year: an on-the-go compact ration based on pocket sandwiches, and a kind of kitchen-in-a-box that prepares hot meals for 18 people with just the pull of a tab.
Representatives of the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center at Natick, Mass., visited the Heidelberg garrison dining facility on April 27, presenting new rations and the latest improved versions of Meals, Ready to Eat.
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SANGIN VALLEY, Afghanistan - Hundreds of British troops swept into the lush poppy fields of southern Afghanistan Monday, drawing hostile fire at the start of a NATO operation to expel the Taliban from a valley stronghold.
More than 3,000 NATO and Afghan troops are participating in Operation Silicon, the latest effort to bring Helmand province under the President Hamid Karzai’s control.
• More coverage of the struggle for stability is available in FOXNews.com’s Afghanistan Center.
A long column of armored vehicles brought several hundred British soldiers to the Sangin Valley, near the town of Gereshk and Afghanistan’s strategic ring road that links the cities of Kandahar and Herat.
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WASHINGTON - Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up 25 percent last year, particularly in Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and homicide bombers to target crowds, according to a new State Department report.
Among countries, Iran remains the biggest supporter of terrorism, with elements of its government backing groups throughout the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, giving material support and guidance to Shiite insurgent groups that have attacked Sunnis, U.S. and Iraqi forces, the report said.
In its annual global survey of terrorism to be released Monday, the State Department says about 14,000 attacks took place in 2006, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan. These strikes claimed more than 20,000 lives — two-thirds in Iraq. That is 3,000 more attacks than in 2005 and 5,800 more deaths.
Altogether, 40 percent more people were killed by increasingly lethal means around the globe.
Read more here: foxnews.com
LONDON - The head of the British army said Monday that he has personally decided Prince Harry will go to Iraq and urged the media to stop speculating about the prince’s deployment.
But Army Chief of Staff Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt stressed the decision would be kept under review.
“The decision has been taken by myself that he will deploy in due course,” Dannatt said.
He spoke after newspaper reports cited unidentified senior military officials as saying an army review was likely to lead to Harry being banned from the battlefield, although he could still do a desk job.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran agreed Sunday to join the U.S. and other countries at a conference on Iraq this week, raising hopes the government in Tehran would help stabilize its violent neighbor and stem the flow of guns and bombs over the border.
In an apparent effort to drive home that point, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told an Iranian envoy that the persistent violence in Iraq - some of it carried out by the Shiite militias Iran is accused of arming - could spill over into neighboring countries, including those that are “supposed to support the Iraqi government.”
Iraq’s other neighbors as well as Egypt, Bahrain and representatives of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members have agreed to attend the meeting Thursday and Friday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheik.
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Hamas said on Sunday that its military wing plans to kidnap IDF soldiers if Israel decides to conduct a large-scale ground-invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Spokesperson of the Popular Resistance Committees, identified as ‘Abu Abir,’ made the belligerent statements in response to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. -Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi’s suggestion earlier Sunday to begin a large-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Ashkenazi, speaking at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, said that sending in ground forces was the only means to stop the firing of Kassam rockets into Israel.
Read more here: jpost.com
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