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An Introduction to Bravo Battery

2:08 PM, July 16, 2008 | Comments (5)
Bravo Battery soldiers during downtime. Photo: David Botti I've begun my embedding with Third Platoon, Bravo Battery 5-25 FA, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division, a field artillery unit out of Fort Polk, Louisiana. Downtown Baghdad these...

Pat Tillman's Legacy Four Years On

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Trying to Modernize the GI Bill

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  • From LIFE Photo Archive: Soldiers in Action Through the Decades

    David Botti | Nov 21, 2008 01:41 PM

    Recently Google announced it had digitized and uploaded images from the LIFE magazine photo archive, many of which have never been published before.  At present Google says only 20 percent of LIFE's archive is online, but the end goal is to have 10 million images available. To do your own searches visit here.

     

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  • Identifying the Missing: It Happens All The Time

    David Botti | Dec 19, 2007 09:48 AM
    Every so often the Department of Defense issues press releases announcing the identification of remains from U.S. troops missing in action. Usually found in Korea or Vietnam, these releases remind us there's a number of U.S. military personnel still missing—and that there's an active effort underway to find them. Those responsible for the effort are known as the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC). 

    So far, December has seen six such announcements from the DoD. Appearing in-between notifications of War on Terror fatalities and officer promotions, it's easy to overlook the return home of veterans from long ago wars. Excerpts from the DoD press releases for the past month:

    Staff Sgt. Maurice H. Moore, U.S. Army, Vietnam

    On May 12, 1968, North Vietnamese forces overran the Kham Duc Special Forces camp and its surrounding observation posts in Quang Nam-Da Nang Province (formerly Quang Tin Province), South Vietnam. Moore was one of the 17 U.S. servicemen unaccounted-for after the survivors evacuated the camp. Search and recovery efforts at the site in 1970 succeeded in recovering remains of five of the 17 men. A sixth man was returned alive during Operation Homecoming in 1973 after having been held prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese.     More
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