Alaska Military in Iraq

Alaska-based soldier admits accepting illegal gratuities

Gold coins and diamond rings are just a couple of the kickbacks an Alaska-based soldier received from an Iraqi contractor, according to federal court documents.

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Soldiers return from Iraq in time for the holidays

Members of a Fort Wainwright squadron -- one of the last active-duty Army units to leave Iraq -- have returned from a 10-month tour and reunited with loves ones in time for the holidays.
ALASKA MILITARY IN IRAQ

Fairbanks-based soldiers return from Iraq in time for holidays

Members of a Fort Wainwright squadron -- one of the last active-duty Army units to leave Iraq -- have returned from a 10-month tour and reunited with loved ones in time for the holidays.
MILITARY

Cost of care for Iraq, Afghan vets on pace to exceed Vietnam

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be winding down, but the long-term costs of caring for those wounded in battle is on path to rival the costs of the Vietnam War.
MILITARY

Small Kentucky town reels from pain of two wars

On Veterans Day 2011, Timothy Jackson, a former sailor in the U.S. Navy and the son of a man who was the same, visited a small, unfinished gravesite on a hilltop alongside a winding road. It belonged to Timothy Matthew Jackson, who went by Matt and had himself been a Marine.
ALASKA MILITARY IN IRAQ

Iraq war ending, US troops coming home, Obama says

America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S. troops "will definitely be home for the holidays," President Obama declared today. The eight-year war cost the U.S. military heavily: More than 4,400 members killed, more than 32,000 wounded.
ALASKA NEWSREADER

Anchorage-based soldier displayed gallantry in battle, ex-officer recalls

Former Army officer Steve Griffin of Florida writes in The New York Times about the "soldier's heart" -- what makes a soldier want to fight and whether a commanding officer can identify such a soldier ahead of battle. He singles out Jose Merced, now a noncommissioned officer at Joint Base...
ALASKA MILITARY IN IRAQ

Alaska-based soldier from Nevada killed by bomb

A Fairbanks-based Stryker soldier who served a one-year tour of duty in Iraq died in Afghanistan on Sunday, the Army reported today.
ALASKA MILITARY IN IRAQ

Fort Wainwright soldier killed in Afghanistan by mine

A Fort Wainwright infantryman on his third combat deployment was killed earlier this week in an insurgent attack in the violent Kandahar province of Afghanistan, the Army announced Friday.
MILITARY

Deployment stress is topic of military conference at JBER

The Army's favorite term for maintaining the mental health of soldiers and their families is "resilience." Some of the Defense Department's resiliency experts attended an Army conference Wednesday in Alaska as the pace of deployments continues to demonstrate the need.
AFGHANISTAN

Army's new Stryker vehicles deflect roadside bombs better

Soldiers driving a new version of the Army's Stryker infantry vehicle are walking away from significant improvised explosives in Afghanistan, according to lawmakers and Army reports.