Phoenix shootout leaves 1 officer, 2 suspects dead
A shooting during an undercover drug operation in Phoenix has left three people dead, including one police officer and two suspects, authorities said.
The Associated Press
PHOENIX
A shooting during an undercover drug operation in Phoenix has left three people dead, including one police officer and two suspects, authorities said.
Two other officers were wounded in the gunbattle Wednesday night, with one in critical condition at a Phoenix hospital and the other in stable condition.
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Phoenix shootout leaves 1 officer 2 suspects dead
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Off-duty Marine accused of throwing kitten at wall
I removed his name for one simple reason. There has to be a back story on this and my hunch is, he very well could be dealing with PTSD, or at the very least, anger issues associated with combat. You can't just assume a Marine willing to die for this country, would suddenly find it ok to hurt a kitten. If I find a back story on this, I'll post it as soon as I do.
Off-duty Marine accused of throwing kitten at wall
July 28, 2010 4:28 pm
A Marine sergeant is set to be arraigned Thursday in San Diego County Superior Court on a felony charge of animal abuse for allegedly hurling a kitten at a wall, authorities said.
(the Marine) 27, is assigned to administrative duties at the Marine Corps' San Diego boot camp. The kitten was badly injured, but survived after extensive medical treatment, officials said.
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Off-duty Marine accused of throwing kitten at wall
Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD
Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD
(AP)
SAN DIEGO — The family of four people killed in the crash of a Marine Corps jet in a San Diego County neighborhood two years ago sued the federal government and Boeing Wednesday.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by Dong Yun Yoon, whose wife, two daughters and mother-in-law were killed in the December 2008 crash that incinerated two homes and damaged others in University City.
The suit accuses the military and Boeing, the aircraft's maker, of negligence and seeks unspecified damages.
The military disciplined 13 members of the Marines and Navy after the crash, which was blamed on mechanical problems and a string of bad decisions that led the pilot to bypass a potentially safe landing at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado.
The suit claims the F-18 Hornet had "a history of warnings and system failures" related to its fuel system and never should have been cleared for takeoff.
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Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD
(AP)
SAN DIEGO — The family of four people killed in the crash of a Marine Corps jet in a San Diego County neighborhood two years ago sued the federal government and Boeing Wednesday.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by Dong Yun Yoon, whose wife, two daughters and mother-in-law were killed in the December 2008 crash that incinerated two homes and damaged others in University City.
The suit accuses the military and Boeing, the aircraft's maker, of negligence and seeks unspecified damages.
The military disciplined 13 members of the Marines and Navy after the crash, which was blamed on mechanical problems and a string of bad decisions that led the pilot to bypass a potentially safe landing at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado.
The suit claims the F-18 Hornet had "a history of warnings and system failures" related to its fuel system and never should have been cleared for takeoff.
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Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD
Wounded Marine from Cottonwood honored by Congress
Wounded Marine from Cottonwood honored by Congress
By KLEW Web Staff Story Published: Jul 28, 2010 at 10:46 PM PDT
Story Updated: Jul 28, 2010 at 10:46 PM PDT
WASHINGTON D.C. - A severely wounded Marine from Cottonwood received a standing ovation on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday.
23-year-old Lance Corporal Randal Wright was in D.C. receiving treatment at Walter Reed Hospital for injuries suffered from an IED blast in Afghanistan. He lost both legs and a hand.
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Wounded Marine from Cottonwood honored by Congress
By KLEW Web Staff Story Published: Jul 28, 2010 at 10:46 PM PDT
Story Updated: Jul 28, 2010 at 10:46 PM PDT
WASHINGTON D.C. - A severely wounded Marine from Cottonwood received a standing ovation on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday.
23-year-old Lance Corporal Randal Wright was in D.C. receiving treatment at Walter Reed Hospital for injuries suffered from an IED blast in Afghanistan. He lost both legs and a hand.
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Wounded Marine from Cottonwood honored by Congress
For a video of this go here
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Idaho Soldier Gets Standing Ovation in Congress
Editors note
This link has errors in the story.
Lance Corporal Randal Wright is listed as "Lt. Cpl." and it says he lost his arm instead of his hand.Lt. Cpl. Randal Wright is receiving treatment at Walter Reed Hospital for injuries suffered due to an IED blast in Afghanistan where he lost both legs and an arm.
The video is very good anyway.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Fort Bragg has almost 2,000 surviving spouses, parents and children
Bragg: More being done to aid spouses of fallen
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jul 28, 2010 15:54:15 EDT
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Army has drastically increased its outreach and support for surviving spouses since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the post commander said.
Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, told reporters Wednesday that he still remembers the first time he served as a casualty assistance officer in 1994. One of his men was killed in a training accident in Italy, and officials didn’t know how long the surviving spouse’s benefits would last or how long they could stay in military housing.
That has changed with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since 2001, the military has drastically increased benefits and allow widows to keep military housing for one year and health care for three years. They also receive almost $500,000 in benefits.
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More being done to aid spouses of fallen
Wonder if any of these families went through this kind of "help" when they needed it?
Fallen soldiers' families ripped off by Prudential Financial?
VCS in the News: Fallen Soldiers' Families Denied Cash as Insurance Companies ProfitWritten by David EvansWednesday, 28 July 2010 09:52Top VA Officials Unaware of Scam; VCS Blasts "Secret Profits" for Prudential and MetLife
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jul 28, 2010 15:54:15 EDT
Fort Bragg has almost 2,000 surviving spouses, parents and children in its database, and formed Fort Bragg Survivor Outreach Services to help widows find a community where they feel comfortable.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Army has drastically increased its outreach and support for surviving spouses since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the post commander said.
Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, told reporters Wednesday that he still remembers the first time he served as a casualty assistance officer in 1994. One of his men was killed in a training accident in Italy, and officials didn’t know how long the surviving spouse’s benefits would last or how long they could stay in military housing.
That has changed with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since 2001, the military has drastically increased benefits and allow widows to keep military housing for one year and health care for three years. They also receive almost $500,000 in benefits.
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More being done to aid spouses of fallen
Wonder if any of these families went through this kind of "help" when they needed it?
Fallen soldiers' families ripped off by Prudential Financial?
VCS in the News: Fallen Soldiers' Families Denied Cash as Insurance Companies ProfitWritten by David EvansWednesday, 28 July 2010 09:52Top VA Officials Unaware of Scam; VCS Blasts "Secret Profits" for Prudential and MetLife
Searching for answers in death of Spc. Jonathan Hughey
Searching for answers after a soldier's suicide
By Megan McCloskey
Stars and Stripes
Published: July 27, 2010
PHOENIX — On the first day of 2010, Jeanette Baker sat down at the kitchen table to eat a late breakfast of takeout from Filiberto’s Mexican restaurant. Her family, sleepy and still recovering from New Year’s Eve festivities, recounted the highlights of what she missed after she went to bed.
Jeanette assumed her youngest, 23-year-old Spc. Jonathan Hughey, who was home on leave from Fort Hood, Texas, was at his girlfriend’s house. Why else wouldn’t he be bouncing around the kitchen? He was always the first one awake.
Oh, he’s here, her daughter said, describing how Jonathan’s boisterous teasing of his girlfriend had driven her home in a huff.
“That little butthead,” Jeanette said. “I’m going to go in there and tell him off.”
She walked back to Jonathan’s room, the same bedroom he had as a child, opening the door as she knocked. The light was on, and Jonathan was lying on the floor on his back, the way he slept when he got home from basic training.
She sighed and shook her head at what looked like spilled Kool-Aid on the floor.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
Jonathan didn’t move.
By Megan McCloskey
Stars and Stripes
Published: July 27, 2010
PHOENIX — On the first day of 2010, Jeanette Baker sat down at the kitchen table to eat a late breakfast of takeout from Filiberto’s Mexican restaurant. Her family, sleepy and still recovering from New Year’s Eve festivities, recounted the highlights of what she missed after she went to bed.
Jeanette assumed her youngest, 23-year-old Spc. Jonathan Hughey, who was home on leave from Fort Hood, Texas, was at his girlfriend’s house. Why else wouldn’t he be bouncing around the kitchen? He was always the first one awake.
Oh, he’s here, her daughter said, describing how Jonathan’s boisterous teasing of his girlfriend had driven her home in a huff.
“That little butthead,” Jeanette said. “I’m going to go in there and tell him off.”
She walked back to Jonathan’s room, the same bedroom he had as a child, opening the door as she knocked. The light was on, and Jonathan was lying on the floor on his back, the way he slept when he got home from basic training.
She sighed and shook her head at what looked like spilled Kool-Aid on the floor.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
Jonathan didn’t move.
On the first day of 2010, Gen. Robert Cone, the commander of Fort Hood, paused to reflect on the base’s recent dip in suicides, wondering what he and his senior leaders were doing right. The numbers showed real progress: After 14 suicides in 2008 and 10 through August 2009, in the last four months of the year there had been only one.
Then word came that Spc. Jonathan Hughey had shot himself in the head.read more here
Viet Nam Warbird gets new life from Lakeside company
Viet Nam Warbird gets new life from Lakeside company
By: Mike Leiby, The Independent
07/27/2010
SHOW LOW - A lot of Viet Nam veterans will never forget the pounding, deep, "thwop, thwop, thwop" of a Huey's blades overhead or the fact that for some of them it was the sound of salvation, the sound that let them know help was on the way in what was at times their darkest hour.
That memory lives on in Larry Clark and his part of the two-year restoration of the now one and only operational U.S. Navy Seawolves Huey which actually served with both the U.S. Navy and Army in Viet Nam, as did Clark in the Army when he was 20 years old. He is also a member of The Viet Nam Helicopter Pilots Association.
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Viet Nam Warbird gets new life from Lakeside company
Not all Vietnam Veterans ended up with PTSD, but many, far too many did. When they came home, there was nothing for them. We talk about helping the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, some even talk about taking care of the Gulf War veterans. While all of them do deserve to be taken care of, for the Vietnam Vets, the help they waited for, fought for to make sure all generations were taken care of, still has not shown up for them.
Arlington Cemetery problems were known in 2005 but ignored
Arlington Cemetery problems were documented in 2005 but never fixed
By Aaron C. Davis and Christian Davenport
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Arlington National Cemetery officials knew more than five years ago that many burials did not match Arlington's maps and paper records, according to documents released Tuesday by a Senate subcommittee investigating millions of dollars in botched contracts overseen by the Army.
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Arlington Cemetery problems were documented in 2005
Linked from RawStory
By Aaron C. Davis and Christian Davenport
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Arlington National Cemetery officials knew more than five years ago that many burials did not match Arlington's maps and paper records, according to documents released Tuesday by a Senate subcommittee investigating millions of dollars in botched contracts overseen by the Army.
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Arlington Cemetery problems were documented in 2005
Linked from RawStory
WikiLeaks has FBI, DOD and Congress up in arms
Bill to pull trainers out of Pakistan fails
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jul 27, 2010 19:21:22 EDT
WASHINGTON — The House has rejected a resolution directing the president to remove all U.S. troops from Pakistan.
The U.S. has several hundred military trainers in Pakistan, and the sponsor of the resolution, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said Congress should act now to prevent the military presence there from growing.
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Bill to pull trainers out of Pakistan fails
Whistle-blowing site shrouded in own secrecy
WikiLeaks emerged in 2007 as a self-described check on unjustified government secrecy and the abuses that can come with it, yet the organization itself is shrouded in no small amount of secrecy.
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jul 27, 2010 19:21:22 EDT
WASHINGTON — The House has rejected a resolution directing the president to remove all U.S. troops from Pakistan.
The U.S. has several hundred military trainers in Pakistan, and the sponsor of the resolution, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said Congress should act now to prevent the military presence there from growing.
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Bill to pull trainers out of Pakistan fails
FBI chief: Agents assisting DoD on WikiLeaks
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jul 28, 2010 12:37:34 EDT
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau is assisting the Defense Department in its criminal investigation into the release of about 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on Afghanistan.
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Whistle-blowing site shrouded in own secrecy
WikiLeaks emerged in 2007 as a self-described check on unjustified government secrecy and the abuses that can come with it, yet the organization itself is shrouded in no small amount of secrecy.
Idaho Soldier Gets Standing Ovation in Congress
Idaho Soldier Gets Standing Ovation in Congress
Posted by George Prentice on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:58 PM
A severely wounded Marine from Cottonwood received a standing ovation on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday. Lt. Cpl. Randal Wright is receiving treatment at Walter Reed Hospital for injuries suffered due to an IED blast in Afghanistan where he lost both legs and an arm.
At the invitation of Idaho Rep. Walt Minnick, Wright was invited to tour the Capitol with his family. As an extra surprise, he was escorted to the floor of the House and was introduced and praised by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Idaho Soldier Gets Standing Ovation in Congress
Posted by George Prentice on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:58 PM
A severely wounded Marine from Cottonwood received a standing ovation on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday. Lt. Cpl. Randal Wright is receiving treatment at Walter Reed Hospital for injuries suffered due to an IED blast in Afghanistan where he lost both legs and an arm.
At the invitation of Idaho Rep. Walt Minnick, Wright was invited to tour the Capitol with his family. As an extra surprise, he was escorted to the floor of the House and was introduced and praised by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Idaho Soldier Gets Standing Ovation in Congress
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