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82nd Airborne Quick-Strike Force Gives Obama New Option in Mideast Crises
By David Wood - Politics DailyFORT BRAGG, N.C. -- As revolution zigzags chaotically across the Middle East and North Africa, the U.S. Army is sharpening its readiness to launch rapid-reaction, kick-in-the-door combat forces, adding capabilities and skills that had atrophied during a decade of counterinsurgency missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the first time in years, the 82nd Airborne Division here has stood up its "ready brigade," trained to a razor's edge and poised to move instantly, as one of its paratroopers said, "to the sound of the guns." This new capability gives President Obama the option to swiftly land ...
In the 10th Year of War, a Harder Army, a More Distant America
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe U.S. Army now begins its 10th continuous year in combat, the first time in its history the United States has excused the vast majority of its citizens from service and engaged in a major, decade-long conflict instead with an Army manned entirely by professional warriors. This is an Army that, under the pressure of combat, has turned inward, leaving civilian America behind, reduced to the role of a well-wishing but impatient spectator. A decade of fighting has hardened soldiers in ways that civilians can't share. America respects its warriors, but from a distance. "They don't know ...
Arlington National Cemetery Reporter: 'National Media Hasn't Wanted to Touch This Story with a 10-Foot Pole'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOn Thursday, the U.S. Army announced it was firing John Metzler and Thurman Higgenbotham, the civilian leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, after concluding a seven-month investigation into the improper burials of fallen American soldiers. Many of the startling discoveries at Arlington -- from bodies buried on top of one another in the same grave, to unidentified human remains found in a landfill on the Arlington grounds -- came about because of the diligent work of a single reporter, Salon's Mark Benjamin (Read his stories on Arlington here). Surge Desk caught up with Benjamin today ...
Soldier Investigated for Taunting Iraqi Boys in Video
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(May 25) -- The Army is investigating an Alaska-based soldier accused of posting a video on Facebook in which he taunts two Iraqi boys, asking them if they're gay and if they will grow up to be terrorists. Army spokesman Maj. Bill Copernoll said Spc. Robert A. Rodriguez, who is based at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, was ordered to remove the 30-second video from his page on the social-networking site. "The incident is currently under investigation, and the Army will take appropriate action based on the findings of the investigation," he told The Associated Press. Copernoll called the ...
Army Report: GIs Outgunned in Afghanistan
By David Wood - Politics DailyAmerican troops are often outgunned by Afghan insurgents because they lack the precision weapons, deadly rounds, and training needed to kill the enemy in the long-distance firefights common in Afghanistan's rugged terrain, according to an internal Army study. Unlike in Iraq, where most shooting took place at relatively short range in urban neighborhoods, U.S. troops in Afghanistan are more often attacked from high ground with light machine guns and mortars from well beyond 300 meters (327 yards, or just over three football field lengths). The average range for a small-arms firefight in ...
Obama Makes the Case for a Wider War
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama made his case Tuesday for an intensified fight in Afghanistan, arguing to war-weary Americans that a temporary build-up there is needed to set up an exit that ensures long-term security. "Years of debate over Iraq and terrorism have left our unity on national security issues in tatters, and created a highly polarized and partisan backdrop for this effort," Obama told a West Point audience mostly made up of uniformed cadets and generals. "It is easy to forget that when this war began, we were united -- bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack, and by the ...
'Mindless' Basic Training Gets Some Smarts
By David Wood - Politics DailyFORT BENNING, Ga. -- When seasoned combat soldiers began returning from the war to help train new recruits here, the first thing they did was to stop training for what the Army called "convoy live fire.'' ...
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