Afghan and U.S. forces killed six insurgents after the militants opened fire on a base near Deh Rahwod in southern Afghanistan on Sunday. The troops responded to small arms and rocket attacks on the base with an air attack, leading to the seizure of a light machine gun, four assault rifles, and a radio. No [...]

Task Force Baghdad troops managed to escape an attack on their Bradley fighting vehicle without injury on August 13th after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit their vehicle in Sadr City, Baghdad. Soldiers exited the vehicle after the attack and secured the area, while Baghdad civil defense responders tried to extinguish the fire. Firefighters were [...]

War photographer Michael Yon writes about a recent incident in which the Deuce Four Strykers detained a terrorist in the infamous Yarmuk traffic circle, who told the soliders where he lived without hesitation. The troops arrived at the prisoner’s mother’s house to find her smiling, “as if to say, ‘That’s my boy!’” Sounds confusing, but [...]

Wounded milblogger Chuch Z. has set up his voice-to-text software and is back blogging.
I experimented with Dragon Naturally Speaking a few years ago so I can sympathize with Z’s frustrations with the program. He seems to be mastering it pretty quickly, though, while my sandpaper voice and the Dragon just never got along with each [...]

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Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll made an ass of herself by campaigning against the war in Iraq at a Marine’s funeral:
[Lieutenant Governor] Catherine Baker Knoll, who lives in nearby McKees Rocks, crashed the funeral, plopping herself down in the pew next to Linda Kubiak, Goodrich’s aunt. During the communion service, Knoll told Kubiak she [...]

Department of Defense officials announced today that retention and recruiting rates were up for all of the armed services in the active and reserve components in June, which comes as great news after the unfortunate slump the services experienced this past spring. But acting deputy undersecretary for military personnel policy Bill Carr notes that the [...]

Great update on TC Override. Please read.

Rusten Currie, one of our nation’s many fine MilBloggers, writing from his position in Baghdad:
The real progress is in the faces of the average Iraqi. The real progress lies in not the road behind us but in the fact that there is a road ahead of us. Sorry if it is an uphill climb that [...]

Carren has posted an update on the status of her wounded husband Chuck Ziegenfuss. Read it, especially this paragraph towards the end of the post:
Please continue praying for Chuck and our family. And don’t forget his men. This has taken a toll on his men, as well as all of 2-34 AR BN. Pray for [...]