Posts Tagged ‘war’

How Can You Support Your Soldier Husband’s Job?

By • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Featured, Passing the Time, Relationships

A nice editorial from the Washington Post…. I lost many of my civilian friends when Paul left for Afghanistan because they didn’t support the war and couldn’t make the leap to support him as a soldier and us as a military family. It baffles me that people can’t see that the reason they have the […]



Marines will leave Iraq by Spring 2010

By • Jun 12th, 2009 • Category: In the Press

By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press All but a few dozen of the 16,000 Marines now in Iraq will be out by next spring, the Marine Corps commandant said Thursday, putting a solid end date on a long-anticipated exit. Gen. James T. Conway said his Marine commanders are already moving equipment out of Anbar […]



More Than 20,000 Troops Headed to Afghanistan

By • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: In the Press

By Golnar Motevalli / Reuters The majority of the 17,000 extra U.S. troops being sent to fight a growing Taliban-led insurgency in southern and western Afghanistan should be on the ground by mid-July, the U.S. military said on Sunday. A further 4,000 troops are arriving to train Afghan security forces and they will be deployed […]



Army: US Could Stay in Iraq 10 More Years

By • May 28th, 2009 • Category: In the Press

From the Associated Press: The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said the […]




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