After One Tough Job, War Veterans Face Another: Finding Employment
When Tom Tarantino left military service at age 29, he thought he'd have an easy time transitioning into civilian work. "I assumed I'd have a job in two or three months," he said. "That's what they tell us in the Army." It's not hard to understand why he was so confident. Tarantino had 10 years of service and several promotions, leaving the Army as a captain in 2007. He had been a platoon leader in Iraq for a year, heading more than 500 mortar missions, investigating local militia leaders and conducting counterinsurgency operations. After being promoted to captain, he was put in charge of a ...
Antiwar Activists Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy
Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly held up two pink cardboard signs that read "U.S. War = Terrorism" and "Drone Attacks Kill Civilians." The women, Toby Blome and Martha Hubert, are part of Code Pink, a nationwide antiwar group that formed in 2002. They were quietly protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as former CIA agent Robert Grenier testified that a significant increase in troops is required to fend off al-Qaida in the latter country. Since the beginning of the Iraq war ...
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel Takes Foreign Policy Stage
President Barack Obama Wednesday appointed former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to co-chair the Intelligence Advisory Board, which advises the president on the legality and quality of intelligence. "Chuck understands that accurate and timely intelligence is essential for effective foreign policy," Obama said in a Cabinet Room briefing. Hagel has become controversial for calling on the U.S. to hold a more neutral approach in the Arab-Israeli conflict, which some see as an anti-Israel stance. He gave the keynote address Tuesday night at the first gala dinner of J Street, a progressive Jewish ...
Ad Campaign Aimed at Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison
An advocacy group that includes at least two retired generals Tuesday launched a national TV and Internet ad campaign urging Americans to push Congress to shut down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying failure to do so would serve as a recruiting tool for al-Qaida and harm the moral stature of the U.S. ...
Military Reports Record Recruiting Year
The military exceeded its recruiting benchmarks for the first time since the start of the all-volunteer force in 1973, a top Defense Department official said Tuesday. ...
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