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  • 8
    Dec
    2012
    10:20pm, EST

    Navy extends winning streak against Army

    Matt Rourke / AP

    Navy players and Midshipmen celebrate after they beat Army 17-13 on Dec. 8 in Philadelphia.

    The Associated Press reports -- Keenan Reynolds extended Navy's dominance against Army, scoring the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter in a 17-13 victory in the 113th rivalry game Saturday.

    Navy (8-4) beat Army for the 11th straight time and won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy awarded to the team with the best record in games among the three service academies. Army and Navy each beat Air Force, putting the prestigious trophy up for grabs in the regular-season finale for the first time since 2005.

    Army (2-10) hasn't hoisted the CIC trophy since 1996.

    Read the full story.

    Matt Rourke / AP

    Navy's Keenan Reynolds (19) is tackled by Army's Josh Jackson, bottom, as Army's Geoffery Bacon, left, and Navy's Noah Copeland (34) look on during the second half of the Army Navy football game on Dec. 8 in Philadelphia.

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    Midshipmen of the Naval Academy celebrate a touchdown during a game against the Army Black Knights on Dec. 8 at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

    Matt Slocum / AP

    Army Cadets cheer and hold an image of Army's coach Rich Ellerson during the first half of the Army Navy football game on Dec. 8 in Philadelphia.

    Matt Rourke / AP

    Navy Midshipmen march onto the field before the Army Navy football game on Dec. 8 in Philadelphia.

    Matt Rourke / AP

    Army Cadets march onto the field before the Army Navy football game on Dec. 8 in Philadelphia.

    Tim Shaffer / Reuters

    Vice President Joe Biden, second right, presents the Commander-in-Chief's trophy to U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent Mike Miller, center, and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, left, at the conclusion of the Army versus Navy NCAA football game in Philadelphia on Dec. 8.

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    The caption of the 4th picture is incorrect. They are holding an image of Army coach Rich Ellerson, not Joe Biden

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  • 22
    Sep
    2012
    4:23pm, EDT

    Jeff Pachoud / AFP - Getty Images

    French army convoy patrols roads near Kabul

    A French army convoy rides past locals on the road between Nejrab base and Warehouse base near Kabul on Sept. 21, as part of the French disengagement. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014.

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  • 3
    Jul
    2012
    4:59pm, EDT

    Night-time helicopter drop brings mail to soldiers in Afghanistan

    Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    Two Blackhawk helicopters from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade load passengers to take away from Combat Outpost Nangalam in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province on Tuesday.

    Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division look through packages received from a night time helicopter drop at Combat Outpost Nangalam in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province.

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    Good job troops .... Happy 4th of July .... Stay safe and hurry home ....

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  • 7
    Jun
    2012
    11:57am, EDT

    'Vampire shift' for US soldiers in Afghanistan after sniper attacks

    Tim Wimborne / Reuters

    Soldiers from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, prepare sandbags at night to reinforce the defenses at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's Kunar Province June 7.

    Tim Wimborne / Reuters

    A soldier from the U.S Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, prepares sandbags at night to reinforce the defenses at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's Kunar Province June 7.

    Tim Wimborne / Reuters

    A soldier from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, runs across open ground to avoid sniper fire at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's Kunar Province on June 7.

    Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads

    Baz Ratner / Reuters

    More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.

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     From Reuters: COMBAT OUTPOST PIRTLE-KING, Afghanistan - U.S. Staff-Sergeant Joshua Danison cranes his neck to survey jagged ridges vertical and black above him on the eastern edge of Afghanistan, then reels off the rules here for survival as a Chinook transport helicopter thumps away into the darkness.

    "Welcome to Combat Outpost Pirtle-King. Here we only move around at night. If you must move in daytime, make sure you stay close in against the northern walls, as most attacks come from there," he says. "If you must move in the open, do it at a run." Continue reading this story here.

     

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    Bring our troops home. There's nothing in that stinking sh!thole worth their time, and certainly not their lives.

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  • 25
    May
    2012
    12:06pm, EDT

    US soldier pays respects to a fallen Afghan officer

    Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters

    U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on May 25.

    Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters

    Gulam Dostager (C), a member of Afghan Local Police gestures next to U.S.Army soldiers of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during their joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on May 25. Dostager was killed shortly after this moment by blast of Improvised Explosive Device (IED).

    Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters

    Michael Foley, U.S. Army Lieutenant of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, crosses a canal during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation with Afghan security forces in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on May 25.

    Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads

    Baz Ratner / Reuters

    More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.

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    Does the author mean April 25?

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  • 18
    May
    2012
    9:25am, EDT

    Danish Siddiqui / Reuters

    Teeing off into Afghanistan's open fields

    A U.S. Army soldier of 3/1 AD Task Force Bulldog prepares to hit a golf ball from the rooftop of a building at Combat Outpost Boston in Kherwar district in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan on May 18.

    See more photos from Afghanistan in our slideshow: A nation at crossroads

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  • 11
    May
    2012
    8:14pm, EDT

    US Army Sgt. surprises daughter with early return from deployment

    Brandon Dill / The Commercial Appeal via AP

    U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Carrie Stewart hugs her daughter Tiara Sanders, 14, after surprising the Bolton High School freshman in class on Friday in Bolton, Tenn.. Stewart just finished a 10 month deployment in Kuwait and was not scheduled to return to the U.S. for three more weeks.

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  • 29
    Mar
    2012
    12:05pm, EDT

    From single parenthood to stalled careers, military spouses make own sacrifice for country

    Erin Trieb / VII for msnbc.com

    For the past 22 years, Carla Fears has followed her husband, Sgt. 1st class Nathaniel Fears, from base to base, taking any job she could find. With her husband planning to retire in the next year or two, she's now trying to figure out what job she wants to do instead of what she has to do.

    By Meredith Birkett

    Strength. Resilience. Motivation. Confidence. Adaptability. Those are just some of the qualities military spouses mentioned when describing how their experience in the military -- by marriage -- should be attractive to prospective employers. I spoke with them at a job fair at Ft. Hood in Killeen, Texas, Wednesday, while reporting with photojournalist Erin Trieb. 

    There was obvious pride in what they had learned from a life in the military; but there was also frustration. For many, moving from base to base, not just in the U.S. but also around the world, limited their career paths. With only a year or two in one place, they were often taking any job they could get, not following their passions or skills. Military spouses -- 95 percent women --  have an unemployment rate of 26 percent, according to the Department of Defense, over two times the national average for civilians.


    According to job counselors at Ft. Hood, the military is making an effort to slow down transfers, to allow military families to stay in one place for at least three years. They are hosting job fairs and encouraging military spouses to add volunteer activities to their resumes. Military studies show that they volunteer at a rate four times the national average. They want to remind employers that even if a job history looks checkered, there are ways outside of a traditional job for people to learn leadership, team work and creativity. Melissa Brown, a military spouse who's family of four moved ten times within five states makes the point, "After 12 years as a military spouse, I can keep a team together." Meet more military spouses and learn about their story in the slideshow below.

    Slideshow: Hiring our heroes' spouses

    Military spouses get special attention at a job fair at Ft. Hood, Texas. Those married to military service members have an unemployment rate more than twice that of the civilian population.

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    More Hiring our Heroes, an initiative by NBC News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that aims to get veterans back into the workforce.

    Learn more about job fairs for veterans.

    Also, explore Erin Trieb’s ongoing Homecoming Project, an awareness and educational campaign using imagery to educate the public about PTSD and the struggles many service members face after coming home from war.  Funds raised from the campaign benefit local non-profit groups serving veterans.

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    Moving around all the time isn't just hard on the wives of servicemen, it's also extremely difficult on their children. Facebook helps them keep in touch with old friends, but there is a lot of adjusting that needs to happen. I found an article with a few examples

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  • 22
    Mar
    2012
    12:34pm, EDT

    Soldiers stage coup in Mali

    Habibou Kouyate / AFP - Getty Images

    Soldiers crowd a truck in a street of Bamako on March 22. Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure, who was forced to flee his palace during an overnight coup, is well and in a safe location, a loyalist military source told AFP Thursday. Toure, who was to step down after an election scheduled for April 29, is "in good health... and in a safe location" following the seizure of power by a group of renegade soldiers, the official said without elaborating.

    Habibou Kouyate / AFP - Getty Images

    Residents run past soldiers in a street of Bamako on March 22. Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure, who was forced to flee his palace during an overnight coup, is well and in a safe location, a loyalist military source told AFP Thursday. Toure, who was to step down after an election scheduled for April 29, is "in good health... and in a safe location" following the seizure of power by a group of renegade soldiers, the official said without elaborating.

    Nic Bothma / EPA

    A file picture dated April 27, 2007 shows Mali president Amadou Toumani Toure at an election rally in the capital Bamako, Mali.

    BAMAKO -- Renegade soldiers said they seized power in Mali on Thursday and ordered its borders closed, threatening to reignite instability in a Saharan region shaken by the conflict in Libya.

    The overnight coup bid was led by low-ranking soldiers angry at the government's failure to stamp out a two-month-old separatist rebellion in the north of the west African state.

    Heavy weapons fire rang out throughout the night as the presidential palace came under attack. The whereabouts of President Amadou Toumani Toure, who oversaw a decade of relative stability, are unknown.

    Mali's neighbors, the United Nations and world powers from Paris to Washington called for a return to constitutional rule.

    The 7,000-strong army has for weeks sought better weapons to fight northern Tuareg rebels bolstered by heavily armed ethnic allies who fled Libya after fighting for ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.

    Read the full story.

    -- Reuters

    Malin Palm / Reuters

    Malian soldiers and security forces gather at the offices of the state radio and television broadcaster after announcing a coup d'etat, in the capital Bamako, March 22. Renegade Malian soldiers went on state television on Thursday to declare they had seized power in protest at the government's failure to quell a nomad-led rebellion in the north.

     

    Malin Palm / Reuters

    General view over the offices of the state radio and television broadcaster after Malian soldiers announced a coup d'etat, in the capital Bamako, March 22. Renegade Malian soldiers went on state television on Thursday to declare they had seized power in protest at the government's failure to quell a nomad-led rebellion in the north.

     

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    Their was a fear of what would happen to the weapons supplied to the rebels in the Libyan uprising, well now we know where they woundup. I wonder what country is next on the extremist list of countries to free from western influence. this is exactly what I feared would happen if we backed these grou …

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  • 20
    Mar
    2012
    6:01pm, EDT

    Soldiers leave families for Afghanistan

    Bill Tiernan / The Virginian-Pilot via AP

    Army PFC Forrest Miller kisses his son Parker Miller, 6-months old, held by his wife Britney Miller with the couples' daughter, Jaslene Miller, 4, before Miller boards a bus with other members of the 119th Inland Cargo Transfer Company.

    Bill Tiernan / TheVirginian-Pilot via AP

    Army 2nd Lt. Brendan Kasony and his wife Joyce say their goodbyes.

    Bill Tiernan / The Virginian-Pilot via AP

    Army Spec. Aaron Peterson holds his son, Amir,10-months old, over his head as he says goodbye on March 20.

    Family and friends say goodbye to 160 soldiers with the 119th Inland Cargo Transfer Company today as they depart the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va. for a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.

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  • 14
    Mar
    2012
    3:08pm, EDT

    'Welcome Home' program for US troops comes to an end in Dallas

    Larry W. Smith / EPA

    Troops exit the airport marking the last Rest and Recuperation (R&R) flight at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Wednesday. The Army is officially closing the DFW Personal Assistance Point hub to service members returning from over seas, traveling between the United States and Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Larry W. Smith / EPA

    Troops exit the airport in Dallas, Texas.

    Larry W. Smith / EPA

    Troops wait outside on the curb for their bus after exiting the airport.

    Charles Hadlock of NBC News reports that volunteers have welcomed home soldiers in Dallas from each of the 2,700 chartered R&R flights since the very first one on Nov. 2, 2003:

    Sgt. Hank Slaughter, 47, who returned from Kuwait earlier this month after serving in Iraq, smiled and shook hands with each of the 50 strangers who had come to greet his flight.

    “This is great.  This is definitely more than I expected to see,” said Slaughter.

    When Slaughter mentioned that he didn’t have a ride to his home, volunteer Pat Brown, 80, offered to take him.  “He’s from Fort Worth and I’m from Fort Worth, so I’m going to take him home,” Brown said, laughing.

    Soldiers returning home for their two weeks of R&R will now be routed through the Atlanta airport, ending a nearly greeting program run by volunteers at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.

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    I wish the people of ATL would pick up this tradition for returning troops but something tells me they won't. ATL isn't quite like TX.

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  • 16
    Dec
    2011
    6:33pm, EST

    Pakistani army troops train in the Cholistan desert

    Reuters

    Pakistan Army soldiers take part in winter military exercises in the Cholistan desert, near the Pakistan-India border on December 16, 2011.

    By Rich Shulman

    These "training exercise" photos bring a smile to my face. These soldiers look like they are auditioning for a Bollywood action movie.

    Reuters

    Pakistan Army soldiers leap from a vehicle during winter military exercises in the Cholistan desert, near the Pakistan-India border on Dec. 16, 2011.

    Mk Chaudhry / EPA

    Pakistan Army troops engaged in winter collective exercise in Cholistan desert (khairpur tamiwali) near the Pakistan-India border, Dec. 16 2011. Troops exhibited their skill, during the exercises. The aim of the exercise is to provide a tactical environment for the troops of Armour and Artillery and Infantry for handling weapons and equipment.

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    We used to call these photo ops "dog-and-pony shows". But "training"? No. But hey, all military organizations gotta do 'em.

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