Tag: deployment
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The Army is expected to have an FDA-approved battlefield blood test for traumatic brain injuries in two years, according to an official spearheading the service’s efforts. The Army’s trials of the blood test among troops in Afghanistan have proved promising, Col. Dallas Hack, a doctor and director of Combat Casualty Care at Medical Research and…
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Seniors tripped
WASHINGTON — Armored trucks designed to protect troops from roadside bombs and adapted to conditions in Afghanistan have saved more than 2,000 American lives there, far fewer than the Pentagon estimated last year, according to data released to USA Today. The Pentagon began speeding Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles to troops in Iraq and…
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Previous Olympic Games in the U.S.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Stationed in an Afghan battle zone, Navy trauma nurse Lt. Cmdr. James Gennari gained plenty of experience treating the wounds of war. But he had never seen anything like the case that arrived by helicopter…
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Previous Olympic Games in the U.S.
Stationed in an Afghan battle zone, Navy trauma nurse Lt. Cmdr. James Gennari gained plenty of experience treating the wounds of war. But he had never seen anything like the case that arrived by helicopter one day in January. A Marine had been struck by a rocket-propelled grenade, but the device hadn’t gone off. It…
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Lobos take bite out of Falcons
Early next year, soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division will shelve their combat experience from the Middle East to become training advisors to African forces. In January, the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Riley, Kan., will become the Army’s first “regionally-aligned” brigade assigned to U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM. The Dagger Brigade…
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Tigers bounce back briskly
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2012 – As Marines keep pushing insurgents out of Afghanistan’s Helmand and Nimruz provinces, Afghan soldiers and police are taking the reins and protecting the population, the commander of 1st Marine Division (Forward) said today via teleconference from Camp Leatherneck. The biggest change on the ground in the area is the drawdown…
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Boykins provides spark for Nuggets
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Michael Phelps concluding his record-setting Olympic career and Usain Bolt blowing away the competition on the track are among the highlights so far of the 2012 Summer Olympics broadcast on AFN Europe. But if you happen to be following the Olympics on AFN Europe, you may have missed the signature moments, unless…
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Finn crashes X party
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 3, 2012 – Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Justin Callahan is airborne again, flying a C-12 Huron twin-engine airplane in support of the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade here. Less than two years ago, Callahan, who’s originally from Bloomsdale, Mo., was told he couldn’t fly aircraft again, could never run again, and…
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JUMP ON BOARD
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2012 – Afghanistan is on the right trajectory to move to the next stage in its development, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan C. Crocker said yesterday in an interview with NPR’s Renee Montagne. Nearly a year to the day of his July 25 appointment last year, the career diplomat said he is…
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Falcons officially frustrated
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – As the United States trumpeted its success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, another group privately cheered its good fortune: the Taliban. One of the Afghan war’s great ironies is that both NATO and the Taliban rely on the convoys to fuel their…