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In a significant development last month, US military convoys rolled into Iraq via the Arar crossing with Saudi Arabia. This visible display of foreign force movements saw a portion of the convoy making its way to the Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, while the rest headed toward the US occupation base of Al-Tanf in Syria. In July, the US Department of Defense unveiled its plan to deploy approximately 2,500 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, stationed at the Fort Drum military base. Their mission: Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the codename for the US-led military campaign against ISIS in Syria...

Chelsea Manning saw injustice and stood up for what’s right. Now, she’s serving a 35 year sentence in an all-male military prison. She’s been systematically abused by the U.S. government, held in conditions that the UN considers to be torture, and has attempted suicide twice during her 7 years behind bars. But now there’s hope. NBC reports that she is on President Obama’s “short list” for commutation. The news has sparked a groundswell of support for Chelsea online. Hundreds of thousands of people have already taken action to support her, but now the message is simpler than ever. But now...

(1010 WINS) (FORT DRUM, N.Y.) The president of Afghanistan will visit Fort Drum next week to honor the U.S. soldiers who helped provide security to his war-torn country. Afghan President Hamid Karzai will visit the Tenth Mountain Division's northern New York base on Tuesday, during his trip to the United States to attend the Group of Eight summit next week in Georgia. Karzai will meet with President Bush at the White House on June 15th. Karzai was named leader of the transitional Afghan government in December 2001. He will run for president in September, when the nation holds its first...

Civilian militia members were scheduled to lay down their arms today in a ceremony in Kandahar, Afghanistan. This morning's disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration commencement ceremony was scheduled to include a parade of 1,000 demobilizing soldiers, and weapons collection was set to begin this afternoon, according to a Combined Forces Command – Afghanistan news release. The commander of the Kandahar provincial reconstruction team was scheduled to attend the ceremony. Officials said the ceremony marks another step in a program designed to integrate 100,000 Afghan militia members into the new Afghan army and other government-sponsored security activities, or into civilian life. The...

Raid in Al Fallujah Soldiers with Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th  Mountain  Division, provide security while soldiers with 1st  Battalion,  505th Parachute  Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, search a shop suspected of producing and selling anti-coalition compact disks and digital video disks in Al Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 24, 2004.  U.S. Army photo by Staff  Sgt. Charles B. Johnson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, prepare to conduct the raid. U.S. Army photo by Staff  Sgt. Charles B. Johnson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, raid the shop,...

<p>She made it through her son's first deployment -- a three-month tour in Iraq last year. But when Erika Mancini learned that her son would be deployed to Afghanistan last month, she started losing sleep.</p> <p>"I kept seeing him as a little baby, holding my hand," said Mancini, 64, of Lincoln, R.I. "I didn't know he wasn't coming back, but it's that eerie feeling that you feel in your gut."</p>

It had all the makings of a Super Bowl party -- beer, pretzels and rowdy football fans. But when Beyonce Knowles sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before kickoff Sunday night, guests at Bill and Lisa Scott's Bellevue home had one person on their minds -- fallen soldier Justin Scott. "Our boy Justin, God and country," said his uncle, Brian Scott, as a dozen family members and friends toasted after the national anthem. U.S. Army Sgt. Justin Scott, 22, died Thursday afternoon in an explosion in the mountains of Afghanistan. Scott, a member of the 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum,...

Connie Wells of the American Legion Lufkin, TX, is collecting thoughts and wishes which will be sent to the 10th Mountain Division - United States Army in Afghanistan - Operation Enduring Freedom. That company will not get to be home for the holidays and Connie is sending an email with thoughts and prayers to the unit so they know they have not been forgotten and that we are supporting them 100%.

FORT BENNING, Ga. Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab’s lightweight shotgun system is undergoing operational inspection and test firing for 200 shotguns to be fielded to the 10th Mountain Division for future use in Afghanistan. The 10th Mountain will field the lightest variation of the 12-gauge shotgun system, which attaches under the M-4 carbine and weighs 2 pounds, 11 ounces — less than the M-203 grenade launcher. The system is a five-round, box-magazine-fed, manually operated shotgun. It uses a straight push-pull type bolt action that can be switched for either left or right-handed users. The attachment variation is 16.5 inches in length...