Gulf War Pilot Still ‘Missing’ March 10, 2009 Associated Press WASHINGTON - A U.S. fighter pilot lost nearly 20 years ago in the Persian Gulf War will continue to be listed as missing, according to the Navy, which no longer suspects that he was captured by Iraqi forces. Navy officials in...

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 9 mins ago MOSUL, Iraq – Grenades lie unattended next to a west Mosul bazaar. Garbage bags throughout the city are searched daily for bombs. At a sprawling sheep market, Iraqi army soldiers are careful not to kick over rocks for fear of setting off hidde...

Sensitive Information About President’s Helicopter Found In Iran Saturday, February 28, 2009 – updated: 11:08 am EST March 2, 2009 PITTSBURGH — A Cranberry company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack O...

Vets Find Safety Net Online March 02, 2009 Chicago Tribune MOLINE, Ill. — The requests are often humble: A disabled veteran in Decatur needed help with an overdue winter fuel bill. A Soldier in Minnesota asked for a box spring and mattress — “it doesn’t have to be new.”...

New Disability Board Disappoints Tom Philpott | February 26, 2009 Review Board to Disappoint Vets Disabled Since 9/11 Complaints from veterans and from a high-profile commission that the services routinely were “low-balling” disability ratings for military members found medically unfit s...

By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 41 mins ago LONDON – A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man Monday after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity — the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President...

February 22, 2009 McClatchy-Tribune Information Services In a city that prides itself on respect for military veterans, scorn is a fact of life for former Army captain Erin Russ. Neighbors gawk when she takes out the trash. At local malls, teenagers titter and hiss as the strapping ex-infantry offic...

From The Times February 16, 2009 Leo Lewis Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands. The stark warning – which includes discussion of a Terminator-style scenario in which ro...

February 19, 2009 The Gazette, Colorado Springs,Colo. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Staff Sgt. Chris Mountjoy couldn’t hear for three days after the mortar round screamed into his camp and exploded 15 feet from him. The open door of a Humvee saved him from the shrapnel, but a shock wave blew him 3...

February 19, 2009 Associated Press WASHINGTON - A retired Army general who investigated the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is among a group of former public officials and religious and human rights figures urging President Barack Obama to appoint a nonpartisan commission to investigate the trea...