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DefendAmerica News - Soldiers' Quick Action Saves Life of Their 'LT' Immediate response saves life of fellow soldier after improvised explosive device detonates. By U.S. Army Spc. Brian Schroeder 10th Mountain Division BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 21, 2005 Before a deployment, soldiers learn how to react to situations that arise in combat. Two soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division were able to successfully apply the skills they learned to save the life of their platoon leader. U.S. Army Spc. Henry Adames and Spc. Joey Collier, both part of the 2nd Battalion, 14th...

Mayor Richard Daley's son, whose name and MBA from one of the nation's most prestigious universities would have opened doors to a lucrative career, has instead joined the Army and could be sent off to the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan. Patrick Daley, 29, who got his master's degree from the University of Chicago in June, said he "always wanted to find a way to serve ... just like my grandfather and father." He said the Sept. 11 attacks played a role in his decision to enlist in the airborne infantry. "Think of it. It's amazing. I get to serve...

By Franklin Fisher, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Tuesday, December 23, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. soldiers in Iraq voiced pride and satisfaction on the news that Time magazine has named “the American soldier” its 2003 Person of the Year.Time’s latest issue features a cover photo of three 1st Armored Division soldiers in Iraq, and wrote: “They swept across Iraq and conquered it in 21 days. They stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught Saddam Hussein. They are the face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is...

NATIONAL Young enlistees have highest death rate in Iraq By LISA HOFFMAN and THOMAS HARGROVEScripps Howard News ServiceOctober 28, 2003- When Army Pvt. Joseph Guerrera, 20, died on patrol after a bomb hit his vehicle in Baghdad Sunday, he exemplified the profile of America's war dead in Iraq. In a pattern as old as war itself, it is the young U.S. enlistees like Guerrera, a paratrooper and former church choir member from Dunn, N. C., who are doing most of the dying in the ongoing war in Iraq. More 20-year-old soldiers have died - 40 - than those of any...