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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 9, 2009 – Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division’s Company C, 201st Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, are equipping Afghan National Army soldiers with the skills they need to save lives. Afghan National Army soldiers transport a U.S. soldier simulating wounds to an ambulance after stabilizing him during a medical training exercise at Forward Operating Base Fenty in northeastern Afghanistan, Feb. 28, 2009. The ANA soldiers completed the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Under Fire program after six weeks of training. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. David Hopkins  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available....

GORDON Brown last night urged America to use the drive that put man on the Moon to save the Earth. The PM called on the US to “seize the moment” and lead the world out of economic crisis with green technology. Mr Brown forecast the global economy could DOUBLE — if America, Britain and the EU worked together for a “Global New Deal”. He warned America not to close its doors to foreign competition — saying protectionism would “protect no one”.

(IsraelNN.com) The heart, lungs, liver and kidneys of an 8-year-old were transplanted into four Jewish children. The boy's father said: "It’s as if he’s still living." A week ago, eight-year-old Anwar Abu-Arar from the Israeli-Arab town of Kalansua, east of Netanya, was hit by a car on a busy street near his home. Though doctors labored to save his life, a two-doctor committee determined after several days that Anwar had suffered respiratory brain death. His father was asked if would agree to donate Anwar’s organs, and he immediately agreed.

YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- Two USS George Washington (GW) (CVN 73) Sailors are being hailed as heroes after their quick thinking helped save the life of a Japanese citizen. Aviation Electronics Technician 1st Class Henry Caballero and Aviation Electrician's Mate 1st Class James Brice were returning to Yokosuka Dec. 19 after having dinner at a restaurant in Harajuku. While changing trains at Shinagawa Station at they noticed a man lose his balance and fall off the platform onto the track below. "The man was dressed in white, and I guess I saw it out of the corner of my eye....

12/24/2008 - HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- An Air Force Special Operations Command Airman saved lives in Afghanistan April 6 during a lengthy battle by calling in airstrikes to protect his team. Staff Sgt. Zachary Rhyner, a special tactics combat controller assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., was deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom as the primary joint terminal attack controller while attached to special forces team Operational Detachment Alpha 3336, 3rd Special Forces Group. Then a senior airman, Sergeant Rhyner was part of a 130-man combined assault force whose mission was to enter...

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 18, 2008 – One day before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Army senior leaders put into place a plan to overhaul the service’s combat medic training. Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Haney delivers a review of the combat medics’ performance in the “blood lab” at the Department of Combat Medic Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The medics must work through the lab using a combination of soldier and medic skills administering aid, but watching for hidden dangers such as homemade bombs and enemy weapons. DoD photo by Fred W. Baker III  (Click photo for screen-resolution...

Federal immigration officials raided an Iowa meatpacking plant this month... Nearly 400 of the plant's 900 employees were arrested on immigration charges. Do you feel safer? Ever since immigration reform died in Congress last year, the Bush Administration has made a show of stepping up enforcement. But do homeland security officials really have nothing better to do than raid businesses that hire willing workers – especially in states like Iowa, where the jobless rate is 3.5%? These immigrants are obviously responding to a labor shortage for certain jobs. Giving them a legal way to enter the country would free up...

Faxes and phone calls to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Alaska during Congress's two-week Easter break have delivered four more signers of the Discharge Petition to force a US House floor vote on Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) to stop companies from hiring illegal aliens. If the SAVE Act goes into law, you will see a mass exodus of illegal aliens over the next several years. SIGNERS Alaska -- Rep. Young New York -- Rep. Walsh Ohio -- Rep. Tiberi Pennsylvania -- Rep. Kanjorski Out of 435 Members of the House, 185 have now signed the Discharge Petition,...

Subject: TIPS ON PUMPING GAS Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when theground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role. A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big...

3/25/2008 - ALI BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Nine Iraqi firefighters graduated the Basic Firefighter Skills Course here as Airmen of the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Fire Department trained the newest graduates March 24 at Ali Base. The six-week course teaches students "the basics of fighting fires, search and rescue and lifesaving skills," said Chief Master Sgt. Jeffrey Horne, the 407th ECES fire chief. Hazim Nadoom, an Iraqi who has been translating the course for the firefighters since 2006, said the course is working. "We have a guy from two classes ago who was able to save a little baby and...

Politics, ain’t it great? House Republicans are trying to force action on a Democratic-written immigration enforcement measure, the latest GOP attempt to elevate the volatile issue into an election-year wedge.Republican leaders hope that by pushing the bill - endorsed by 48 centrist Democrats and 94 Republicans - they can drive Democrats into a politically painful choice: Backing a tough immigration measure that could alienate their base, including Hispanic voters, or being painted as soft on border security in conservative-leaning districts. Which bill is this? It’s a bill that emphasizing the principles of attrition through enforcement. The SAVE Act addresses border...

2/22/2008 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- A team of Air Force and Army medical specialists from Wilford Hall Medical Center here flew to Greenville, S.C. Feb. 21 to transport a 6-week-old baby boy back to Wilford Hall for advanced medical care. The 15-member critical care air transport team, which included neonatal and pediatric critical care physicians, pediatric surgeons, critical care nurses and respiratory therapists, flew to South Carolina on a C-130 Hercules with their battery-operated portable extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, equipment. An ECMO machine is a heart-lung bypass device which circulates and oxygenates the blood,...

FORT HUACHUCA — It was only a few days before students at the Intelligence Center would leave the post for home. The annual holiday break, known as “Exodus,” was coming. Pfc. Paul Cardenas and Pvt. Benjamin Gaines stood in line at Popeyes, an eatery at the post Exchange’s Mini Mall near Prosser Village, where students live. Both soldiers had just finished a combat lifesaver course and were waiting to order chicken for lunch when a man collapsed. “I was really paying attention to what I was going to order, when he fell down,” said 30-year-old Cardenas. People began to scatter,...

Marines from Company L, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, came across a family with a three-year-old girl in need of heart surgery. Amina, pictured with her father, was flown to Jordon Jan. 22 and is scheduled to fly to Nashville, Tenn., to have open-heart surgery. Photo by Lance Cpl. Shawn Coolman. CAMP FALLUJAH -- Marines operating in Al Anbar Province airlifted a young Hadithah girl in desperate need of a life-saving surgery, and her mother to the Jordanian border Jan. 22. They were met there by a team of medical professionals who will escort them to...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, Jan. 15, 2008 – U.S. soldiers’ quick thinking and care helped save the life of an Iraqi man in Arab Jabour, Jan. 7. Army Spc. Edward Graves, a medic with 153rd Military Police Company, Delaware National Guard, works to stabilize Mohammed Ali Abas on Jan. 7, 2008, in Arab Jabour, Iraq. Abas was injured by an improvised explosive device and lost his foot. He underwent surgery at 86th Combat Support Hospital, in Baghdad. Photo by Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Soldiers of 153rd Military Police Company, Delaware National Guard,...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (Jan. 10, 2008) -- Saving a woman's life was not on the menu for three corpsman from Camp Pendleton while dining at a local sushi bar in Vista, Calif., Dec. 14. They planned to have a casual dinner out in town. The sudden sound of crashing dishes brought something else to the table. "All we heard was dishes colliding and a little girl screaming," said Petty Officer 3rd Class Margaret R. Reusi, a corpsman with Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group. "The little girl was trying to pick her mother up...

Medics from 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, treat Nora Nasser Al Jabouri, 10, at Patrol Base Murray Aid Station, Dec. 11. Nora and her sister, Hajer Amir Al Jabouri, 4, were playing together in their backyard when a mortar landed in their yard injuring them both. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Eric Strazzeri. FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU — Two sisters – Hajer Amir Al Jabouri, 4, and Nora Nasser Al Jabouri, 10 – were playing together in their backyard while their mother sat nearby milking the family’s cow, Dec. 11. The day began...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Nov. 27, 2007 – An Air Force neurosurgeon assigned to Craig Joint Theater Hospital here saved the life of an 8-month-old Afghan girl earlier this month. Air Force neurosurgeon Lt. Col. (Dr.) Randall McCafferty performs surgery on an 8-month-old Afghan girl suffering from an arachnoid cyst, or “water on the brain,” at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Without the help of McCafferty’s expertise, the young girl, who is now in good condition, was not expected to survive. Defense Department photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The child, from Parwan...

WASHINGTON -- About 100 House members will attempt to do what the Senate could not do this year: pass an immigration reform bill. The Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act, recently introduced by Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., would require employers to verify that their workers are here legally through an electronic database, authorize money to add 8,000 border patrol agents over five years and increase aerial surveillance of the Southwest border. "This is, I feel, a common-sense approach," Rep. Shuler said. "We've seen how the Senate has failed on two occasions to put together an immigration policy." The bill,...

Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone. That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.