Hero Stories for military

Pfc. Michael A. Rogers, 23, of White Sulphur Springs, Montana, died November 27, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Hammer, east of Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident. Pfc Rogers was assigned to the 210th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York. </d

How do you plan Thanksgiving dinner for 180,000 people more than 6,000 miles away? If you're a food buyer at the Defense Logistics Agency, you start by making a shopping list in April for meals to be served to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanist

The afternoon mission was just one of almost three dozen day and night, partnered hasty checkpoint missions, labeled as vehicle interdiction snap traffic control point operations conducted since mid-Septemb

My favorite Thanksgiving memory with my hero would be our 2004 Thanksgiving. My son SSgt Joshua M. Horton, USMC, was deployed to Iraq in early September, 2004. He had been deployed in early May, but spent those first months in Camp Pendleton, CA, training for combat. He was part of F Company, 2/24, based out of Milwaukee, WI. This was a holiday season that we anticipated would be spent without Josh, as he was to be in Iraq til the spring of 2005. Josh was only in Iraq for six weeks, whe...

I purchased a herobracelet for Sgt. Samuel K. Kelsey, from Troup, Texas, who died on 12-13-07 in Iraq. I saw a story on the internet about this brave young man. He was the only child of a single mom who died during his second tour in Iraq saving a fellow soldier. I bought and wear this bracelet to remind me to pray for his mother and our troops. As a mother of an Army soldier who recently discharged, my heart is so heavy for this Mom. To lose her only child....my heart just can't imagine...

A newly established NATO command was activated at Camp Eggers in Kabul, as the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan merged with the new NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan to create a unified command for the training of the security forces in Afghanist

Pfc. Marcus A. Tynes, 19, of Moreno Valley, California, died November 22, 2009, in Zabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Pfc. Tynes was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. </d

Sgt. Daniel A. Frazier, 25, of Saint Joseph, Michigan, died November 19, 2009, in Zabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when a suicide car-bomber attacked his unit. Sgt. Frazier was assigned to the 782d Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. </d

WASHINGTON – Worried that the Army may have missed red flags about the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon will likely launch an inquiry into how all the military services keep watch on other volatile soldiers hidden in their ranks, officials said Tuesday. The probe, still in the planning stages, would be a broad examination ranging beyond the specific case of Army psychiatrist Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, officials said. The inquiry, they said, could look at personnel policies ...

Miguel was born in New York, Died August 9, 2005 in Baghdad Iraq. U.S. Army SPC Miguel Carrasquillo, 25 from Chicago, Il was in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehic