President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor Tuesday to the first active-duty servicemember in nearly 40 years.

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was described as a humble, low-key Soldier –- one that shies away from the limelight. But his actions on Oct. 25, 2007, were anything but low-key when he refused to let enemy fighters carry off a fellow wounded Soldier in Afghanistan.

Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Forces seized a large quantity of narcotics in Chakhansur district, Nimroz province, Nov. 13.

Multiple intelligence sources and tips from local citizens led the joint security force to suspected drug infiltration routes in Nimroz and Helmand provinces. During the course of the operation, the joint security force stopped several vehicles that were suspected of smuggling narcotics.

The International Security Assistance Force confirmed the capture of a Taliban leader operating in Zurmat district of Paktiya province during an overnight operation in the province Nov. 14.

The targeted individual coordinated and conducted indiscriminate improvised explosive device attacks and facilitated weapons for fighters under his command.

Indiscriminate violence, such as roadside bombs and small arms and indirect fire, continues to harm Afghan civilians, to include at least 150 attacks last month, according to ISAF records.

Don't call Staff Sgt. Salvatore "Sal" Giunta a hero.

Don't say that he went above the call of duty when he single-handedly stopped two terrorists from kidnapping his wounded buddy during a ferocious firefight in Afghanistan in 2007.

Because as Giunta sees it, he was just doing his job. He didn't do anything that any other paratrooper in 1st Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team -- or anyone in the United States military for that matter -- wouldn't have done, and he can't quite understand what all the fuss is about.

Two Afghan and coalition security operations resulted in the peaceful capture of several suspected insurgents in eastern and southern Afghanistan yesterday.

The security force conducted 92 percent of their night operations this month without shots fired.

An Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected insurgents during an overnight search for a Taliban leader operating in Zurmat district of Paktiya province.

The targeted individual coordinates and conducts indiscriminate improvised explosive device attacks and facilitates weapons for fighters under his command.

In support of Operation New Dawn, Company E, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, has assisted the 10th Iraqi Army Field Engineer Regiment in a variety of security-related training.

Company E has primarily trained the 10th IA FE Reg. on route clearance and reconnaissance tasks; however, according to Staff Sgt. Benjamin Ireland, of Pittsburgh, Company E recently began training Iraqi soldiers on check-point operations.

A young James T. Schmidt often went down to visit his grandfather at Fort Campbell, Ky., years ago. Schmidt’s grandfather was a master sergeant with the 101st Airborne Division and enjoyed taking his grandson to the parks.

“I remember coming down to Fort Campbell a couple times and going to the park and seeing the big guns and I was like, ‘Whoa,’” said Schmidt, now a U.S. Army sergeant with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 237th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack.

At around 7 O’clock in the morning of September 25, 2009, a security police officer from the communal village of Ia Piar and a security police officer from the district of Phu Thien, both dressed as civilians, went to our Christian Brother Siu Wong’s house and ordered him to go with them to their office in the district of Phu Thien.

NEW YORK CITY (November 9, 2010) This past September, the Center for Security Policy issued an abbreviated report titled Shariah - The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II. In a press conference today, CSP is releasing the full, unexpurgated study, and will have four of the authors on hand to discuss it. A great summary of both versions can be read here.