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SOUTHWEST ASIA, Dec. 1, 2009 – Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Adams has been an elementary school teacher for the past four years. Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Adams, 746th Aircraft Maintenance Unit support section noncommissioned officer in charge, as well as an elementary school teacher, uses a blog to communicate with students in Mississippi during her deployment in Southwest Asia, Nov. 24, 2009. In addition to being an Air Force reservist, Adams is a teacher at Kate Shepard Elementary in Mobile, Ala. She is deployed from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason...

TAMPA - A U.S. Marine reservist attacked a visiting Greek Orthodox priest he believed to be a terrorist, Tampa police say. When the priest tried seeking directions from Jasen D. Bruce, 28, of Tampa, on Monday, Bruce struck the priest with a tire iron and chased him. Police say he attacked the Rev. Alexios Marakis, 29, of Crete, Greece, who was visiting St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpon Springs and wound up lost in Tampa. Marakis had performed a blessing of another retired Greek priest in the West Shore area and then accidentally exited Interstate 275 north into downtown...

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, July 28, 2009 – Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States, gas cost 35 cents per gallon, the New York Mets won the World Series in five games over the Baltimore Orioles, and Catharine Zeta-Jones, Brett Favre, Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Aniston were born. The year was 1969. Army Brig. Gen. Chris Leins, Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa deputy commander, presents Army Sgt. Maj. Samuel Stoner with the Legion of Merit Medal for exceptionally meritorious service during his 40-year career of service, July 21, 2009. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 27, 2009 – Tech Sgt. Alyson Angeles-Kimbrell has found in the Air Force Reserve a way to make a big difference in her life and that of many others. Air Force Tech Sgt. Alyson Angeles-Kimbrell spoke at the 2009 League of United Latin American Citizens convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 20, 2009. Angeles-Kimbrell has helped herself and many others through the Air Force Reserve. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Angeles-Kimbrell was here earlier this month to attend the 2009 League of United Latin American Citizens convention on a quest to...

BAGHDAD, May 11, 2009 – Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed here, but those her serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, 143rd Military Police Detachment. Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed in Iraq, but those her serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, the 143rd Military Police Detachment, Baghdad, 2009. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Mitchell admits it’s hard being a mother and deployed soldier, but she says it doesn’t...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2008 – Army Sgt. Gregory S. Ruske is quick to call himself an ordinary soldier, but later this month the Army Reserve will single him out for extraordinary heroism in Afghanistan that earned him the Silver Star medal. Army Sgt. Gregory S. Ruske will become the fourth Army Reservist to receive the Silver Star for heroism demonstrated after he and his fellow soldiers were ambushed in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province April 21, 2008. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The 28-year-old Colorado Springs, Colo., native will become the fourth Army reservist to receive the...

Lt. Burke Jensen was called five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait. Now he is being told to get an irrigation system and landscaping on his property as soon as possible or face legal action from the Oak Hill Country Estates Homeowners' Association.KENNEWICK — Burke Jensen moved to Kennewick about a year ago, bought a nice house in the country south of the city and began to settle into a new job at Energy Northwest. Then came the call five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait. So Jensen, who says he is an involuntarily mobilized reservist,...

/begin my translation N. Korea: A Reservist Goes Postal With an Anti-aircraft Gun 01/28/08 People, who heard the story, are snickering at the dead officials who took bribes, saying, "They were killed while gorging on bribe. Must have no regrets." A firearm accident broke out at the firing range for reserve units near Yonpo-ri, Hamju County, S. Hwang-hae Province, N. Korea, putting its military on alert. According to internal sources from N. Korea, on Jan. 18, at the peak of N. Korea's winter training, at a firing range of 7th Corps, a reservist in training for firing an four-barreled...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007 – When Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty put himself between a suicide bomber and the bomber’s intended targets at the grand opening of a new medical facility in Khost, Afghanistan, he wasn’t thinking of the strategic, or even tactical, importance of his actions. Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty (center) is the first Army reservist to earn the Silver Star for actions in Afghanistan. With him are Army Command Sgt. Maj. Leon Caffie (left), senior enlisted advisor for the Army Reserve, and Navy Cmdr. John F.G. Wade, commander of Joint Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost, Afghanistan, when...

SIERRA VISTA — At a time when many are wondering when the war will end, a man from this city is headed to what could be considered the front line of Iraq. U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Rob Biron is a nurse with trauma background and 14 months experience handling battlefield casualties in Landstuhl, Germany. In December he will begin a year of providing his services to ordinary people in Iraq. “I’m going to be going into the neighborhoods,” the 46-year-old Biron said. Biron calmly patted the head of his black Labrador retriever, Silky, as he relaxed Tuesday in his home...

A classmate of mine (Marine Reservist) just got his deployment orders, he leave the first week of May.Those of us in class with him want to load him up with a care package but we're kind of worried about over doing it. Since he is a history major like the rest of us in that class we are tempted to load him up with a bunch of historical biographies, etc. but we're afraid that a bunch of books that might come in handy during down time are going to be heavy and a pain to have to drag around, especially...

When they were called up for military service in the wake of 9/11, hundreds of uniformed city workers in the Reserves faced the suspension of their city health and pension benefits. The city offered them an option: it would keep paying their salaries and continue their benefits, but when they returned they would have to repay the city their city salary or their military pay, whichever was less. On its face, the offer made sense. And many reservists had only a few days to get their affairs together before shipping out — hardly enough time to consult accountants. Nearly all...

WASHINGTON--A former U.S. Army Reserve officer from Spotsylvania County admitted yesterday that he steered millions of dollars in Iraq-reconstruction contracts in trade for jewelry, computers, cigars and sexual favors. Bruce D. Hopfengardner, 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud. Hopfengardner served as a special adviser to the U.S.-led occupation, recommending funding for projects on law-enforcement facilities in Iraq. He admitted conspiring with Philip H. Bloom, a U.S. citizen with businesses in Romania, Robert J. Stein Jr., a former Defense Department contract official, and others to create a corrupt bidding process that included the theft of...

7/9/2006 - MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFPN) -- A head-on collision on Washington's State Route 101 between Sequim and Port Angeles July 3 brought out the heroism in 12 strangers who stopped to help. One of those heroes was Tech. Sgt. Phillip White, a reservist with the 446th Airlift Wing here. Sergeant White was with his family when a Ford Explorer carrying a family of four crossed the center line of the road and hit a Toyota 4Runner carrying another family of four. "There was no thinking involved, it was just instantaneous -- kids, burning car, get them out,"...

LEBANON — An Army reservist who served two tours in Afghanistan is suing the Wilson County school district, claiming it ended his contract to teach high school classes because of his extended service. Capt. John Parker taught criminal justice and coached wrestling at Wilson Central High School and said he was recently told less than a month after returning from deployment that his contract would not be renewed for the coming school year. "It just made me feel that the people I was fighting for were the exact people that were taking my job from me," Parker told WTVF-TV in...

U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Andrew Berry (right) listens to an explanation offered by one of his Iraqi Army counterparts during training near Muqdadiyah, Iraq, May 20, 2006.  Berry, a retired New Jersey police officer, works to train the Iraqi Army to be self-sustaining. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lee Elder U.S. Army Capt. Andrew Berry Soldier Helps Train Iraqi Army By Spc. Lee Elder 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment MUQDADIYAH, Iraq, June 7, 2006 -- An Army Reserve officer serving in northern Iraq has now had to answer a quick call to service twice. Capt. Andrew Berry, a member...

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2006 – An Army Reserve soldier who received care packages from Americans while serving for a year in Iraq is taking that effort to another level through a program he started in Fairfax, Va. Army Sgt. William Dunn (front row, left) takes times to pose with a few "Project We Care" volunteers at the James Lee Community Center in Fairfax County, Va. Boxes of goodies are packaged and shipped over to soldiers deployed in Iraq. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Sgt. William Dunn, of the 229th Engineering Company, said that after his tour...

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2006 – When Dorothy Moore was commissioned as a Navy warrant officer in February after a long application and selection process, she was fulfilling a career goal. But, she said, the most rewarding experience of her career had already passed -- her deployment to Iraq. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Dorothy Moore hands out humanitarian supplies to Iraqi children during her 2005 deployment. Moore was commissioned as a warrant officer in February 2006. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. "The most important thing in my career was serving in the Middle East supporting Operation...

...Was watching the CBS Evening News tonight (which I'm not usually in the habit of doing) and heard some sad news. ...Not sure if anyone recalls this story from back in November (see below) but apparently Capt. Smathers died last week, after collapsing during Reserve training. Capt. Smathers was an attorney in Maryland. During his year in Iraq, he earned four Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts and an Army Commendation medal during his year in Iraq. Might be nice if we shared our expressions of sympathy, as well as our gratitude for his service to our country. If you'd like...

"A Marine Came For Me" David J. Danelo Proceedings, October 2005 Discuss this article in the eForum. The odyssey of Marine Corporal Ross Craft (center) began with his hunt to find his aunt and uncle, Diane and Richard Angelico, who were missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR On 30 August, the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, shattered two levees, and flooded New Orleans, a local television station ran footage of a Marine on a jet ski zipping through the floodwaters guiding rescue boats to safe evacuation routes. Corporal Ross Craft, a...

ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 12, 2005 – The staff at Anniston Medical Clinic here misses Naval Reserve Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Woodard when she's deployed, but they don't complain. "Shannon is a very good employee, so we kind of miss her when she goes," said Dr. Vishala Chindalore, a rheumatologist and Woodard's boss at the clinic, where Woodard serves as a medical technician doing everything from recording patient information to giving injections. "We're very proud that she's in the Navy." That pride is a two-way street, as Woodard sees it. Since the start of the fiscal year, she has been...

AL ASAD, Iraq (August 2, 2005) -- Al Asad is home to hundreds of aircraft mechanics who are heavily relied upon to keep the aircraft here supporting the mission of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward). Whether they’re working under the blazing sun or during the not much cooler nights, the mechs do their best to maintain combat-ready aircraft. One such Marine is Lance Cpl. Nick Bredehoft, a CH-46E airframes mechanic and aerial observer assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 764. After graduating from Hill Crest High School in his native Dallas, Bredehoft attended Richland College. He was preparing to...

BALAD, Iraq, July 29, 2005 – Bernd and Virginia Zoller are two full-time Army Reserve officers with a lot in common, pulling military duty in an uncommon place. First off, the Zollers share the same rank -- lieutenant colonel -- and both are public affairs officers. "We were promoted together here on Dec. 24 in this room," Lt. Col. Virginia Zoller said during a July 27 interview with American Forces Press Service here. And the pair has the same last name, because they're a couple. The Zollers will celebrate their first year of marriage Aug. 29. Virginia, 42, acknowledged she...

7/11/05 Today was a good day, and I want to share with you an experience I had on sacrifice this morning. A fellow Petty Officer came into the office, and he and I have a great rapport. On this day though, he seemed out of touch and in deep thought, about what I had no idea. As he sat down at the computer, you could see his face tense and heavily burdened with something. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, “My wife and kids are in the path of the hurricane and I haven’t been able to...

Sergeant, 23, Is First Woman Awarded Silver Star Since World War IIBy John J. Lumpkin Associated Press Writer Published: Jun 16, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - A 23-year-old sergeant with the Kentucky National Guard on Thursday became the first female soldier to receive the Silver Star - the nation's third-highest medal for valor - since World War II. Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, who is from Nashville, Tenn., but serves in a Kentucky unit, received the award for gallantry during a March 20 insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq. Two men from her unit, the 617th Military Police Company of Richmond,...

MOSUL , Iraq – Soldiers from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) killed several terrorists and captured four people suspected of anti-Iraqi activities in northern Iraq Sunday in combined operations with Iraqi Security Forces. Soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment were attacked by terrorists while conducting a raid in a village in northern Al Anbar Province. Iraqi Army and U.S. 2-14th Soldiers quickly overwhelmed the enemy. Following the attack, the units also discovered a weapons cache inside the building the terrorists had used. The suspects are in custody with no MNF or ISF injuries reported.

A tribute to fallen HEROES  from the staff and visitors at FreeRepublic.com, FreedomUSA.org and Veterans for Constitutional Restoration (VetsCoR)  During the course of this country's history brave men and women have stepped forward from time to time, answering the country's call to fight against would-be tyrants, dictators and despots,  and to defend the individual freedom that is our birthright.  Many of these brave men and women have paid the ultimate price. It is to these brave men and women of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine that we dedicate this page, and to...

RALEIGH, N.C. (NNS) -- Former Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class-turned-actor/comedian Bill Cosby took time to honor a local Navy Reservist for her service during his stand-up performance May 15 in Raleigh, N.C. Navy Counselor 1st Class Lauren R. Fyfe contacted Cosby’s management when she found out he was going to be performing in her hometown while she was on leave. All Fyfe said she was hoping for was the opportunity to have Cosby pose in a picture with her holding an American flag she owned. “The flag has been with me everywhere I go in the Navy,” said Fyfe. “Once, I...

Sunday, May 01, 2005 The Battle For Mosul The Deuce-Four Fighting for Mosul Mosul, Northern Iraq As the new map of Iraq unfolds, a picture of progress emerges. The Iraqis who want freedom and democracy are gaining ground. From what I hear about the news back home, this might sound unreal. Nightly tallies of roadside IEDs and suicide car bombers driving headlong into crowds, like the Vietnam body counts on the Huntley-Brinkley Report, are the main summary of events, while most of this country is peaceful. There are seventeen provinces in Iraq, and more than ten are quiet. They are...

Protesters denounced Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' decision not to prosecute an Army reservist who said he held seven Mexican men at gunpoint, saying it could motivate people to take the law into their own hands. "His decision feeds the anti-immigration environment," attorney Danny Ortega said at a news conference held by protesters on Friday. "It could have tragic consequences." Sgt. Patrick Haab, 24, was arrested April 10 after an incident at a rest stop on Interstate 8. He said he drew a revolver that he was wearing legally in Arizona to stop six men who were rushing him, then...

The sergeant stationed just west of Baghdad was once again recounting the dangers of being on the front line - sometimes with dark humor. He referred to how the "muj" (mujahideen or insurgents) were the gang that couldn't shoot straight, but still represented a considerable threat. "They're horrible shots," he wrote in an e-mail to his family, "but every once in awhile they get lucky. We lost another Marine the other day." This is the first war in which American GIs and military families can communicate freely and in real time via e-mail and cellphone, while gathering endless amounts of...

Sargent Patrick Haab, the reservist who was accused of aggravated assault by political showman, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, says that he is the victim in the affair. In an interview on the 14th of April, Haab says that he was at the rest stop near Sentinal, Arizona, when a group of seven men with backpacks confronted him in a threatening manner. His dog inserted himself between the threatening men and Haab, allowing Haab time to access his pistol. Haab then prevented the men from escaping and called authorities. The men were later apprehended and accused Haab of threatening them for no...

April 10, 2005 Hiram Lewis Announces Candidacy for U.S. Senate Against Byrd   by HNN Staff Charleston (HNN) — On the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to American forces, Hiram Lewis IV, an Army National Guard Captain, Iraq War Veteran, lawyer and 2004 Attorney General candidate announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from the base of the Robert C. Byrd statute inside the State Capitol rotunda Saturday afternoon, April 9, 2005.   Stated Lewis: "My candidacy is not a personal vendetta against the senior Senator; rather it is simply time for a change. I am offering up...

Michael Paterson was 45 years old when his Navy Reserve unit arrived in Iraq. He was virtually at the end of his Navy career. Paterson was more than a little surprised when he discovered he wouldn't be based at some rear area hospital where he could practice his advanced skills. He was headed to the front lines. His brothers in arms were the same age as his children. The other hospital corpsmen called him "Grandpa," and it was true. He had young grandchildren at home. When Paterson deployed into Iraq in 2003 with "follow-on" forces just behind the main invasion...

The Kentucky National Guardsmen were outnumbered and under heavy gunfire when they counterattacked Iraqi insurgents who ambushed a coalition convoy southeast of Baghdad. A 30-minute firefight ensued on a Sunday morning, pitting 10 guardsmen against dozens of insurgents. When the shooting ended, 26 guerrillas lay dead and another was mortally wounded, while six others were wounded and another was captured unharmed. The guardsmen didn't go unscathed. Three members of the military police unit were wounded and later transported for medical treatment in Germany, where they are recovering. "It was crazy," recalled Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester. "Adrenaline pumping, you didn't have...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 22, 2005 — National Guard soldiers from the Richmond, Ky.-based 617th Military Police Company were still reminiscing today about the extraordinary battle they fought on Sunday, when dozens of Iraqi insurgents ambushed a U.S. patrol — touching off one of the fiercest battles in Iraq since the fight for Fallujah last fall. But what is more extraordinary is who the U.S. soldiers are — a shoe store manager, hotel worker, printing press operator and several students. The firefight serves as a reminder of how citizen-soldiers are shouldering much of the burden in Iraq. Of the U.S. forces...

Healing hands welcomed home(staff photo by Steven Georges) LOS ALAMITOS — As a rifleman in Somalia and a sniper protecting former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Army Spc. Salvador Romo had empathy for the wounded soldiers he helped treat at a U.S. Army hospital in Germany. ***************************************************** Healing hands welcomed homeMembers of 349th General Hospital cared for service members hurt in Iraq.By David RogersStaff writerLOS ALAMITOS — As a rifleman in Somalia and a sniper protecting former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Army Spc. Salvador Romo had empathy for the wounded soldiers he helped treat at a U.S. Army hospital in Germany....

The link to the story is below. You've heard the wall-to-wall coverage about the Italian intelligence agent killed in Iraq. But when U.S. forces make heroic efforts to save someone like this little Afghan boy, don't look for any credit in the press at all -- it's not their way.

WASHINGTON — Petty officer Anthony Cuomo believes if he were an active-duty sailor, the Navy would have already taken care of the shoulder injury he suffered while training in Iraq. But instead the reservist, who joined after serving as a New York City firefighter during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said he has undergone 21 months of confusion over his military status and rights, and is still waiting for additional surgeries to repair torn muscles. “In my mind, there is one word for this: discrimination,” he said Wednesday, during testimony before a congressional panel investigating the treatment of wounded troops....

More than 100 Army Reserve soldiers came home to the waiting arms of family members in Tucson Thursday night, thrilled to be back after a year in Iraq but sad that one colleague hadn't survived. The late Sgt. Tina S. Time's picture was posted above a sign saying "Welcome Home Soldiers from the 208th" that hung on a wall inside the assembly hall of the Army Reserve Center on the South Side. There, three busloads of reserves rolled in shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, just as the sun dipped beneath the horizon. Time, who died in a vehicle crash near...

DAYTON, Ohio - A former Ohio Army Reserve commander court-martialed for taking Army vehicles in Kuwait so her unit could carry out its mission in Iraq said Monday she is returning to duty pending her bid for clemency. Maj. Cathy Kaus, 47, of Dayton, said she plans to report for duty Tuesday at Fort Sill, Okla. Kaus said she is not sure what tasks she will be assigned. "I'm very anxious to get down there and prove to them that I do have some qualities the Army needs," Kaus said. "I look at it as starting a new job." Kaus,...

NEW YORK — An Army captain sued the government Friday to block his pending deployment to Iraq, saying he resigned in June after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve. Jay J. Ferriola (search), 31, said in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (search) unlawfully continues to exercise control over him even though he properly resigned and was asked to turn in his equipment. The New York resident has never received a written, official response to his resignation request, said the lawsuit, which asks a judge to process...

STATEMENT FROM REP JOHN P. MURTHA [D-PA]: I have learned through conversations with officials at the Pentagon that at the beginning of November, 2004, the Bush Administration plans to call up large numbers of the military guard and reserves, to include plans that they previously put off to call up the Individual Ready Reserve. I have said publicly and privately that our forces are inadequate to support our current worldwide tempo of operations. On November 21, 2003, a bipartisan group of 135 members of the House of Representatives wrote to the President urging an increase in the active duty army...

"In these crucial times, our commitments are kept by the men and women that wear our uniform. ... I have made a commitment to them and to their loved ones: our troops will have the resources they need to fight and win the war against the terrorists." -President Bush President Bush Is Supporting The National Guard And ReservistsIncreased Pay For Our Military, Including The National Guard And Reservists. "Since 2001, the President's four budgets have increased basic pay by 21 percent. President Bush also increased monthly Imminent Danger pay from $150 to $225 and has proposed doubling Hardship Duty...

When Tucson Police Detective Steven Lake was called to active duty just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, he started worrying about how his family would pay the bills. The difference between his Police Department pay and his pay as an Air Force Reserve security officer was roughly $20,000. Thankfully, he said, it was covered by the city of Tucson's supplemental military leave policy. The extra pay helps families of military reservists maintain their way of life while their loved ones are at war. For Lake, it was the difference between sending his six children, ages 1 to...

Posted on Sat, Jun. 05, 2004 Reservist files lawsuit to reclaim job By KAREN NELSON PASCAGOULA - Vincent Beckham, the reservist who lost his job at Chevron Pascagoula Refinery because he was called to active duty, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to get his job back. He names Chevron USA, Universal Personnel Inc. and Wink Inc. in the suit and asks the federal district court to reinstate him to the job he left as an inspector at the refinery. He also asked that he recover from all three defendants his lost wages doubled plus any raises that employees may...

Military Service Costs Some Men Their Children Laws granting deployed soldiers special protections against civil legal actions date back to the Civil War. However, few of these protections extend to family courts and family law. As a result, military men's service to their country often creates the conditions under which they can become victims of terrible injustices. As America's military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan persist, it is important to address the family law issues which military men and fathers face. Some military men's service costs them their children. The federal Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act provides that...

BAGHDAD, June 30 -- To Staff Sgt. Charles Pollard, the working-class suburb of Mashtal is a "very, very, very, very bad neighborhood." And he sees just one solution. "U.S. officials need to get our [expletive] out of here," said the 43-year-old reservist from Pittsburgh, who arrived in Iraq with the 307th Military Police Company on May 24. "I say that seriously. We have no business being here. We will not change the culture they have in Iraq, in Baghdad. Baghdad is so corrupted. All we are here is potential people to be killed and sitting ducks." "It's not fair to...

Marine Fired After Being Called To Active DutyThe pregnant wife of a California Marine reservist says she is considering legal action against her husband's former bosses, 10News reported. Shari Moffitt says Hyundai fired her husband, Sgt. Clifford Moffitt, after he was called to active duty. Clifford Moffitt is a Marine Corps reservist who thought his job at Hyundai was secure. "Instead he received a letter on the battle field, saying that Hyundai decided to terminate his employment two months after he left," Shari Moffitt said. Shari Moffitt is also employed at Hyundai. She is talking with civil rights attorney Gloria...