Marine Corps News

An Air Force Reserve C-130 crew recently sprayed insecticide in southern Louisiana to combat insect infestation, the squadron's commander said yesterday.

Forty years ago, they were young Americans serving in the war in Vietnam. Today, they are seasoned veterans returning to combat as members of the Florida Army National Guard, and bringing their years of experience to younger soldiers who are starting their first deployment.

Servicemembers, retirees and their family members are getting free, anonymous screenings for depression and other mental-health-related issues at military bases nationwide during National Screening for Depression Day today.

The National Defense University is leading a coalition of businesses, foreign governments, nonprofit groups, universities, federal agencies and the U.S. military to assemble solutions for helping people who live in stressed environments, the program's director told military bloggers Oct. 8.

Americans and Germans gathered together in a farming community south of Stuttgart, Germany, to make a lasting tribute to 66 American troops who died there five decades ago.

An Army general and his wife are speaking publicly about the tragic deaths of their sons in an effort to prevent suicides.

NATO defense ministers approved a proposal that will allow the International Security Assistance Force soldiers in Afghanistan to shut down drug networks that funnel money to the Taliban.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today his five-day trip to southeastern and central Europe was important to allies in the region and to relations among NATO nations.

The distinct cackle of machine-gun fire and the ear-piercing detonation of a simulated car-bomb are not the sounds associated with a U.S. Army base in Germany that hosts a two-star, theater-level command headquarters.

Schools are now in session in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, an area that six months ago was the scene of some of the war's fiercest fighting.

A Milwaukee couple is leading an effort to take deployed troops "to the movies" after testing the care packages on their son in Iraq.

A new park is setting the stage for progress in one of Afghanistan's most impoverished areas.

It's still not too late to register to cast an absentee ballot in the Nov. 4 general election in many states.

The U.S. Army's new "how-to" manual on stability operations is a unique document that embraces joint effort as a reflection of the realities of a 21st-century world.

NATO has proven it is up to the job in Afghanistan, and the alliance is adjusting to changes in the country, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.

NATO should go after the drug trade in Afghanistan to take away funding for the Taliban and al-Qaida, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said at a defense ministers conference in Budapest, Hungary.

Forces have been successful in setting the conditions for sustainable security in Iraq, but significant challenges remain, a senior military commander in the country said.

Security and stabilization efforts in three southern Iraqi provinces are going well, with significant improvements since July.

Coalition and Afghan national security forces killed numerous militants and detained two others in various operations.

Coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists during operations that further dismantled al-Qaida in Iraq's network in and around Mosul.