Monthly Archives: April 2007

Gazing at the Flag has an amazing story about SPC Max Ramsey who is a member of the Screaming Eagles Parachute Demonstration Team and is also an amputee.

WASHINGTON (AP) – ” The remains of 10 U.S. airmen, missing in action since a World War II mission over New Guinea, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon said Monday.

A B-24 Liberator with the airmen was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea, after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia on April 16, 1944. The aircraft altered course because of bad weather and was flying to the aerodrome at Saidor when it disappeared, the Defense Department said in a statement.

Read more at USAToday.com

Patrick from Duty in the Desert has General Petraeus’s letter to the people of Iraqi relating some ups and downs during the four years of liberation from Saddam Hussein’s regime. He highlights the new found freedoms in Iraqi and calls for compliance with the new security plan.

The top American military spokesman in Baghdad says they have new evidence that proves Iran is helping militants attack their forces. The U.S. military displayed weapons said to be made in Iran, and said Tehran was teaching insurgents how to make roadside bombs.

Listen to the story at NPR.org

WASHINGTON – The task of signing up people for military service has become much more difficult since the Iraq war and, as a result, much more expensive.

In fact, in per-enlistee terms, recruiting costs have more than doubled over the past 20 years – from about $7,000 per recruit in 1985 to more than $16,000 per recruit in 2005, according to a report for the Defense Department titled “Recruiting an All-Volunteer Force.”

Read more at CSmonitor.com

Chuck, the author of “My Opinions and Rants“, has a first hand account of a ceremony in which a soldier’s casket is loaded onto a transport plane headed for the mortuary at Dover AFB.