She hunkered down with male counterparts in a mine-resistant armored vehicle under sniper fire in Afghanistan and survived a ground attack in rugged terrain. ...more

December 13, 2009

A Cape Coral soldier has died in Iraq, and a Jacksonville Marine has died in Afghanistan. ...more

December 3, 2009

President Barack Obama is dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assures the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas. ...more

December 1, 2009

After a month of personnel appointments and canine selection, last week was the Obama administration's week of revelation. ...more

March 4, 2009

A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say. ...more

February 27, 2009

Congressional officials say President Barack Obama has told lawmakers he plans to pull troops out of Iraq by August 2010. ...more

February 26, 2009

Mike Toma had just come off fire watch duty in Beirut, Lebanon, and was asleep in his barracks when a bomb exploded less than 100 feet away. ...more

October 19, 2008

I was blessed as a young man when I decided to join the Marine Corps. ...more

October 18, 2008

For the third time in four months, a female soldier based at Fort Bragg is dead, and a husband or lover is charged with murder - leading critics to demand that the home base of the Army's elite soldiers exert "control over their troops" and address domestic violence. ...more

October 4, 2008

The enemy hides among civilians on the urban battlefield, walking the same dusty streets and in the same crowded markets where Cpl. Derrick Terrell found himself during a yearlong deployment in Iraq. ...more

August 29, 2008