- Is Obama Really Done with Afghanistan? - New Yorker (blog)
“I should add, by the way, that the danger a lot of times is not that anybody is purposely trying to downplay challenges in Afghanistan,” President Obama said at a press conference in Chicago on Monday, after the NATO summit. He was explaining why he'd ...
- Former WVU football coach Bill Stewart dead at 59 - KFMB News 8
In an unmistakable snub, President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked Monday for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan. The prolonged slump in US relations with Pakistan clouded a NATO summit.... In an unmistakable snub, ...
- NATO touts Afghan war's end as fighting goes on - KGWN
It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin. It was a label they sought both to ...
- A Long Road Home For Liberian US Marine - Marines.mil (press release)
When not engaged in school activities, Tarwoe enjoyed watching and playing football and soccer, and being with friends and his family. “He had this contagious smile,” said Wiles. “He was basically never upset. If something happened, he would forget it ...
- Hollande: NATO missile defense should worry no one - WSET
As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat. As President Barack Obama ...
- Support for workers serving in military - MyCentralJersey.com
John Shaw and his wife, Melissa, appreciate the benefits offered through Bernards-based Verizon Wireless while John has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company is one of the finalists for the 2012 Freedom Award. / Photo courtesy of Melissa ...
- Sailor killed in Afghanistan was Eau Claire grad - Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
AP A US Navy lieutenant who was killed in Afghanistan is being remembered in the Wisconsin city where he attended high school as a well-rounded student and passionate soccer player. Christopher Mosko, 28, was one of three US troops killed Thursday by a ...
- New Jersey employers honored for supporting employees in military - MyCentralJersey.com
John Shaw and wife Melissa appreciate the benefits offered through Verizon Wireless while John has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. These benefits have included subsidizing the difference between military pay and employment pay and assuring that ...
- Danny Cruz of DC United strengthens bonds with his father, a veteran of Iraq ... - Washington Post
He served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan totaling more than 40 months since 2003 but was never injured. “When I was listening to them tell their stories, I was thinking, 'My dad was doing that,' ” Danny, 22, said the day after a team-sponsored ...
- Eau Claire High School Grad Killed in Combat - WMTV
The 28-year-old died during combat operations in Afghanistan late last month. Flags were flown at half-staff in New York last month to honor Mosko, who was assigned as a Navy Ordnance Disposal Platoon Commander to the Combined Joint Special Operations ...
