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Multiple Deployments Triple Risk of PTSD (www.veteransforcommonsense.org)
Soldiers with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are more than three times as likely as soldiers with no previous deployments to screen positive for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and... More
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Policy Change Means Most Able to Deploy (www.militarytimes.com)
About this time last year, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz huddled with his war planners to figure out how to get more medical evacuation helicopters to Afghanistan.
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Pakistan Taliban says carried out Karachi bombing | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in the commercial capital Karachi, and threatened more attacks on the U.S. ally.
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Obama's Afghan War Plan Heads Toward First Test Vote in the House (www.foxnews.com)
President Obama's call to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan is expected to get its first test vote in the House early next year, when Rep. Dennis Kucinich brings to the floor a resolution... More
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Schock Impressed by Soldiers Serving in Afghanistan (www.pjstar.com)
U.S. troops in Afghanistan appear bolstered that more troops and support, including equipment and funding, are on the way, said U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, who is on his way back from visiting the... More
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Troops Deaths in Afghan War Seen Rising With Surge (www.google.com)
The arrival in Afghanistan of tens of thousands of reinforcements to fight the Taliban will lead to a higher death rate among foreign troops, adding pressure on Western leaders to get out altogether,... More
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U.S. troops' death toll in Afghanistan doubles in 2009_English_Xinhua (news.xinhuanet.com)
With the death of a U.S. soldier on Saturday, U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan this year have increased to exactly twice of those in the previous year, according to statistics released by an... More
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Facing Combat Ups Depression Risk in U.S. Troops - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Perhaps it's not surprising, but for members of the U.S. armed forces, combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan increases the risk of depression, according to a new study.
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Deadliest Year for U.S. Troops on Afghan Duty: 311 Killed in 2009, Up from 155 in 2008 (www.nydailynews.com)
This was the deadliest year ever for U.S. troops in Afghanistan - a span that saw more than twice as many killed in 2009 compared to the year before.
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Troops, Taliban Race to Build Up Governments (www.militarytimes.com)
The governor of this remote district in southern Afghanistan has employees he can't afford to pay, a school he struggles to staff with teachers, a clinic where doctors are scarce and a police force of... More
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