Army Sgt. Shermane McGriff remembers Sept. 22, 2004, starting out as a calm day — or as calm as it can be in war-torn Iraq. That afternoon, while providing security for an Iraqi district-council ...
FORT McCOY, Wis. — The war zone of tomorrow may be a dystopian hellscape of crippling cyber strikes, autonomous death rays and swarms of killer bots. But whatever America’s future conflicts might ...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Army Staff Sgt. Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his Humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006. Davis lost a leg and broke his ...
Albu Assi, Iraq, Feb. 1, 2004: Staff Sgt. Anna Berber-Giddings of the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion shows the Iraqi-made steel door meant to provide some blast protection to an unarmored ...
The Pentagon is accelerating its search for a replacement for the Humvee, after two years of roadside bombs and suicide attacks in Iraq that have killed hundreds of soldiers in a vehicle that wasn't ...
Marghab Al Tair, Iraq, June 6, 2008: A Black Hawk circles around an Iraqi army Humvee that is part of a cordon early Friday morning around Marghab Al Tair, Iraq, a village near the country’s border ...
Bobby Leonhard recalls the time, around Thanksgiving 2003, when he was told his West Virginia National Guard unit was being sent to Iraq. “Starting out it was kind of exciting, just knowing we were ...
As insurgents continue to use improvised bombs to attack U.S. military vehicles in Iraq, officials are growing increasingly concerned that the lack of heavy armored vehicles is putting U.S. forces at ...