Tag: deployment
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Soundtrack of summer
Even as the war in Afghanistan is featured less often on evening newscasts or front pages of our newspapers, Americans still involved in the fight continue to die there, deepening the pool of Memorial Day remembrances with new heroes and fresh heartbreak. To glimpse what’s still being sacrificed on Afghan soil, Courtney Knox, the 24-year-old…
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Middlebrooks is a Bronco again
The Department of Defense today identified four units to deploy as part of the upcoming rotation of forces operating in Afghanistan. The scheduled rotation involves one brigade combat team with more than 3,000 personnel to rotate in late Spring 2012; one brigade combat team with more than 2,950 personnel and one combat aviation brigade with…
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Delusions will doom Broncos receiver
KABUL, Afghanistan — Violence spiked in southern Afghanistan as militants stormed a NATO military base and attacked a police checkpoint Tuesday, a day after gunmen wearing police uniforms killed a U.S. soldier. The heaviest fighting in Afghanistan this summer has been in the south and east where Afghan forces are increasingly taking charge of security…
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Broncos feel secure at tailback
ABERDEEN, S.D. — Though he’s patrolling one of the most dangerous regions of Afghanistan, Army infantry officer Andy Cahoy still thinks of others. He sent an email to his mother, Sandy Cahoy, a retired teacher, that described the conditions faced by schoolchildren in Afghanistan and asked for her to arrange for some school supplies to…
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Pettitte, Houston shut out Colorado
FORWARD OPERATING BASE ZEEBRUGEE, Afghanistan, July 9, 2012 – Marine Corps Cpl. Jordi Inoke, a native of Micronesia serving as a radio operator with 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, says he’s proud to be in Afghanistan on his second deployment and supporting the International Security Assistance Force. “I like deploying to Afghanistan,”…
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Phelps’ hunger still strong
WASHINGTON — Almost afraid to say it out loud, lest they jinx their record, U.S. troops in Afghanistan achieved one small but important victory over the past year: They found and avoided more homemade bombs meant to kill and maim them than a year ago, thanks to a surge in training, equipment and intelligence. Bomb-planters…
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Clippers on brink; Martin out for series
Approximately 200 soldiers from the 2nd Briagde, 4th Infantry Division were welcomed back to Fort Carson Monday morning.2nd Brigade deployed last May and June in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and spent the last year working with and training Afghan National Security Forces.Photos from the ceremony (more photos to come) Photo by
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Broncos prepare to load up roster
200 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division returned to Fort Carson at 7pm on Thursday night. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from Fort Carson in May and June 2011 and replaced elements from 1st BCT, 4th Infantry Division in Regional Command-South.Photo…
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Dallas feared commitment
There was a welcome home ceremony for approximately 130 Soldiers of the 615th Construction Engineer Company early Wednesday morning.Click here for pictures of the ceremony Soldiers of the 615th Construction Engineer Company deployed to Bahrain in May 2011 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to conduct post-wide security operations. Operating out of Isa Air Base, 615th Engineers were…
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Ojeda takes control
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s $45 billion investment in armored vehicles to protect troops from roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan has been credited with saving thousands of lives. Now the truck is approaching the end of the road. President Obama’s military strategy, announced in January, envisions a lighter, more agile military focused on action in…