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Freedom Gets Underway For Maiden Deployment

By SOF Editor on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 11:20am
The Navy's first littoral combat ship, USS Freedom (LCS 1), left Naval Station Mayport Feb. 16 for her maiden operational deployment to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) areas of focus. During the independent deployment, Freedom will participate in counter-illicit trafficking (CIT) operations off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea. A U.S.

Charleston Airmen serve as liaison in Haitian repatriation effort

By SOF Editor on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 11:17am
A small team of officers at Joint Base Charleston was recently called upon to bridge the gap between South Carolina repatriation efforts and Air Force flights transporting Haiti evacuees to Charleston International Airport in South Carolina. For weeks, Air Force space-available airlift had transported evacuees to other areas of the United States, but after an announcement the week of Feb. 7 that flights into Charleston's airport were planned, the need for Airmen to act as an intermediary became apparent. Col.

Marines help injured hiker on California mountainside

By SOF Editor on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 11:09am
Two Miramar Marines put their medical training to work Monday while hiking in the wooded, rocky terrain of the Mount Woodson summit trail in Poway.

What started out as just regular 10-mile hike for Lance Cpls.

82nd Airborne Drop in Iraq

By SOF Editor on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:51am

American and Japanese Air Craft in Formation

By SOF Editor on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:40am

Campus shootings, Clemmons tapes show impotency of gun control

By SOF Editor on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:38pm

Campus shooting, Clemmons tapes show fallacy of gun control

 

Ahmadinejad Warns Against New Sanctions on Iran

By SOF Editor on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:35pm
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran will act against any new sanctions and is still open to a uranium swap deal. During a news conference in Tehran Tuesday, Mr.

Ukraine Presidential Vote Faces Court Challenge

By SOF Editor on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:29pm
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is mounting a formal legal challenge against the results of Ukraine's recent presidential election, amid indications that apparent winner Viktor Yanukovych may be inaugurated as early as February 25. The head of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in parliament, Ivan Kyrylenko, says the prime minister's party will contest the presidential election no later than Tuesday in Ukraine's Supreme Administrative Court. Kyrylenko says his bloc is offering substantive and serious arguments for review by the judicial branch. Ms.

Suspected US Drone Strike Kills 3 in Pakistan

By SOF Editor on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:24pm
Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S.