BAGHDAD — At a palace on an artificial lake, Maj. Gen. Joseph Anderson works on the intricacies of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq seven years after he came in commanding troops at the start of the war that toppled the palace’s former owner.
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An American soldier lay in his Afghanistan hospital bed, recovering from a gunshot wound near his knee sustained earlier that July morning. Another bullet had entered near his stomach and exited through his side.
They came home proud of what they did in Afghanistan. Some were banged up.
As soon as Lt. Col. Scott Cunningham shouted “Dismissed!” 250 Nevada Army National Guard soldiers broke formation Monday and rushed to the outstretched arms of their loved ones.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus says she has a “better appreciation” of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan after visiting there last weekend to learn more about the war.
David Ellis, a Las Vegas soldier serving in Afghanistan, started the new year off right.
CARSON CITY — Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night have prevented a group of four to 12 senior citizens from turning out every Monday afternoon in front of the Legislative Building to protest America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 700 soldiers of Nevada’s Wildhorse cavalry knew going in six months ago they would face some hairy situations in Afghanistan with roadside bombs and the reckless enemy who plants them.
They slosh across creeks and stalk through cornfields, hunting down enemy combatants on the outskirts of Afghan villages. Every day since arriving five months ago, Nevada Army National Guard soldiers on foot and on the road have been performing a task they’ve spent years training for: patrolling.
When Ron Portillo is ready to sleep at night, he doesn’t just go to bed, as he once did.
The skyline of “Gotham City” appeared in stark contrast Thursday to chiseled mountains and desolate valleys that surround this mock Mojave Desert town.
Las Vegas Army Sgt. Josue E. Hernandez-Chavez was a veteran combat soldier with six deployments under his belt when his helicopter crashed Monday, killing him and nine others from a special operations team who were returning from a fierce firefight with the Taliban in western Afghanistan.
Another soldier from Nevada has been killed in Afghanistan, the second Silver State-related casualty in a week, according to the Department of Defense.
Army Pfc. Kimble A. Han, a former Cheyenne High School student, was killed Friday in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan along with another soldier, Department of Defense officials reported Monday.
RENO — Funeral services for a Reno soldier killed in Afghanistan are tentatively scheduled for Saturday.
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