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Can’t wait to meet our troops – and all those who love the U.S. Armed Forces – today at Ft. Bragg. Read my book’s dedication page. The book is for these Patriots who fight for freedom. They deserve our support and our government’s unwavering commitment to equipping them for victory. The book tour is beyond all expectations. This feels like the time when a team comes together, gearing up before a major competition to show unity and supply strength and encouragement to each team member equally, regardless of the team member’s role or title. On this tour I hear the...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Hundreds of people are lined up at an Army base in North Carolina where former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is signing books. Palin arrived a little after 11 a.m. Monday, waved and went inside the store where she quickly started signing copies of her new memoir. She did not make any statement.

The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, officials said Thursday

August is a seminal month in the history of the airborne, and especially of the 82nd Airborne Division. Aug. 15, 1942, is the birth date of the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions. "Airborne" was already well under way before the magic date 67 years ago when the War Department formally ordered the formation of two divisions of jumpers and glidermen. Battalions of jumpers had been training at Fort Benning, Ga., since 1940, and the high command of the Army was eager to grow the airborne force. By March, a new infantry division, the 82nd, was activated for training at Camp...

Wifey and I are moving to a military base. She is going active duty as an Army nurse. We are looking at Ft. Campbell, Ft. Knox and Ft. Bragg. Can anybody make any recommendations? Thanks!

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On one side of Bragg Boulevard on Wednesday, American flags whipped in the wind, from toothpicks, from veteran’s hands, from the top of a pole attached to a pickup.On the other, American flags were being dragged on the ground.On one side, Army wives, veterans and bikers held signs that read "I Love My Soldier," "Our Husbands, Our Heroes," and "God Loves The World."On the other, four members of Westboro Baptist Church — including a 22-year-old woman and 7-year-old boy — held signs that read “God is Your Enemy” and "America is Doomed." The child’s read: "God Hates the U.S.A."The two...

The president could not have chosen a friendlier audience for a message that he has been trying for months to plant with the majority of the American public, which polls show stopped supporting the war long ago. Bush addressed thousands of troops of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, some of whom returned from Iraq barely two weeks ago and others who are preparing for a fourth deployment this fall. To fatigue-clad soldiers lined up in formation across a parade ground the size of a football field or more, Bush presented a point-by-point definition of the success he says is coming...

Health inspections of aging barracks on Fort Bragg revealed mold, but “nothing that would indicate a health hazard,” a Fort Bragg spokesman said Wednesday. The inspection by Womack Army Medical Center’s preventive medicine department was part of an Army directive to check on barracks worldwide to ensure that poor conditions shown on a YouTube video aren’t widespread. Ed Frawley, the father of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier, uploaded the video to YouTube last week. It showed images of peeling paint, exposed pipes, mildewed ceilings and showers, a broken toilet seat and a bathroom floor covered in sewage because of a...

Twelve Fort Bragg soldiers have been accused of killing 13 people in the six-plus years since Sept. 11, 2001, according to Observer records. In the six years before the terrorist attacks, 16 Fort Bragg soldiers were accused of killing 18 people. Those numbers came from a search of the Observer’s archives and may not be conclusive. Law enforcement agencies do not track killings by whether the accused was a soldier. The Observer examined its own records after a New York Times story published Jan. 13 indicated that homicides involving active-duty service members and new veterans rose 89 percent during the...

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2007 – If Tiger Woods weren’t a professional golfer, he’d probably be a member of the military’s special operations community, Woods told reporters today at the Congressional Country Club here today. “I told Dad if I didn’t make it (as a golfer) in the first few years, that’s probably where I’d go,” he said. “I’d probably end up going into the military – and I don’t know what branch – but I’d certainly want to be in the special operations community.” Indeed, Woods underwent four days of Army special operations training at Fort Bragg, N.C., in...

An al Qaeda operative at Fort Bragg By JOHN SULLIVAN and JOSEPH NEFF Raleigh News & Observer November 13, 2001 FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A former sergeant at Fort Bragg who became a close adviser to Osama bin Laden obtained sensitive documents describing how U.S. special operations units function. Ali A. Mohamed, a trusted trainer in bin Laden's al Qaeda network, walked the halls of the U.S. military's top warfare planning center at Fort Bragg for more than two years as an Army sergeant. From 1987 to 1989, he acquired sensitive documents describing how special operations units work and a...

AWOL soldier to surrender at Fort Lewis01:43 PM MDT on Friday, August 11, 2006Associated PressFORT LEWIS, Wash. -- An Army sergeant who went AWOL from Fort Bragg out of disgust with the Iraq war says he'll turn himself in Friday at Fort Lewis. Lawyers for 24-year-old Ricky Clousing of Sumner have tried to negotiate a discharge without success. At an anti-war conference Friday morning at the University of Washington, Clousing announced he would turn himself in later at the Army base. Clousing spent six months in Iraq and says he became confused and disenchanted with the U.S. role in Iraq....

As we celebrate the 230th birthday of the United States of America, our president joined the ideological, and perhaps biological, descendants of those who fought to give us our freedom by creating this new nation. The president went to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, to speak to and eat with the troops and their families (who gave him a birthday cake). He will return to the White House for a July 4th celebration with family and friends. That will also serve as a birthday party for the President.

Imagine President Hillary Clinton orating about "The Joys of One Worldism" to the United Nations General Assembly, after the multicultural, multinational, multigrubbing delegates had been told by her aides to sit on their soft hands. Imagine President Abraham Lincoln orating about freedom to former slaves on the White House lawn, after they had been ordered by his aides to remain docile and absolutely quiet at all times. Imagine Prime Minister Winston Churchill orating about victory to bombed-out Londoners in Picadilly Circus, after they had been asked by his aides to stand mum. Imagine President Ronald Reagan orating about the rights...

Announcing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq would send the wrong message to the troops, to Iraq, and to terrorists, President Bush said Tuesday. Responding to calls by a number of lawmakers and other critics, Bush assured Americans in a televised speech delivered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, that the troops would not remain one day longer than needed. But setting a deadline for their withdrawal would be "a serious mistake," he said. "Setting an artificial timetable would send the wrong message to the Iraqis who need to know that America will not leave before the...

FORT BRAGG, N.C., June 28, 2005 – "Nowhere do citizens directly contribute so much to the training of military forces as you do here.” The speaker, Maj. Gen. James W. Parker, was referring to the citizen volunteers who support the culminating event for Special Forces training, the unconventional warfare exercise known as “Robin Sage.” "To be successful fighting against terrorists takes a different kind of military force with a unique skill set, one schooled in unconventional warfare,” Parker, the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Commanding General, said, "and each of you directly contributes to the...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: I have been unable to find any news today about where the first couple are spending the weekend. However, I did find this interesting bit of news from the website of KSL-TV News (Utah). Utah Artist To Present Portrait To President Bush Jun. 24, 2005 (KSL News) -- A Utah artist is headed to Washington to present President Bush with a special portrait. Rebecca Bornemeier of Layton was inspired by the president's actions following September 11th. She painted this picture in his honor. She emailed the governor's office, and then Senator Orrin Hatch about getting...

Published on: Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Antiterrorism exercise keeps responders' skills sharp By Henry CuninghamMilitary editor About 25 protestors chanted and waved antiwar signs at an entrance to Fort Bragg. Suddenly, there was an explosion, and people began falling. Staff photo by Mike Spencer Mock war protesters gather as military police stand guard Tuesday during the Orbit Comet exercise at Fort Bragg. People in civilian clothes sprinted onto the Army post. Someone yelled, ''Go get 'em,'' and military police officers with dogs ran in pursuit. That was the scene Tuesday afternoon during the spring Orbit Comet antiterrorism exercise on Fort...

<p>Once again, busloads of leftist activists will descend upon Fayetteville, NC in an attempt to demoralize the will of our American troops by targetting their loved ones with antiwar drivel.</p> <p>The unifying factor of all of these groups is anti-Americanism utilizing continued propaganda themes of "Bush lied" and "No blood for oil". The mob will also import a number of speakers who have allegedly lost loved ones in Iraq, and will create some sort of symbolic display reflecting the number of dead. (They have used pairs of boots and black umbrellas in the past.) They will (undoubtedly through an unintentional oversight) neglect to display any symbolism reflecting the number of Americans killed in the WTC, or Iraqis killed by Saddam or Women beaten by the Taliban, or the number of Afghanis and Iraquis and Palestinians and Ukrainians and (soon) Egyptians who now have the ability to vote.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fort Bragg paratroopers rounded up more than a dozen suspected insurgents Tuesday in a series of raids in central Baghdad. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers hit the streets just before 10 p.m. With soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division surrounding the area, the paratroopers moved out on foot from their base on Haifa Street into the surrounding neighborhood. They called it "Operation Elm Street." The objective was to detain all "military age" men - those from ages 18 to 45 - in seven houses suspected of harboring insurgents. Soldiers from the 82nd's 325th Airborne Infantry have been...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted 25 years ago of the stabbing deaths of his pregnant wife and two daughters, will seek parole but will continue to proclaim his innocence, one of his attorneys said Monday. MacDonald, eligible for parole since 1991, has declined to seek his freedom because he said he would have to admit guilt for the slayings at the family's Fort Bragg apartment Feb. 17, 1970. MacDonald remarried a few years ago and has more reasons to want a life outside of prison, said his attorney, Tim Junkin of Potomac, Md. "He doesn't have...

U.S. officials would like the Iraqi election to look a lot like Afghanistan's. The Afghan election Oct. 9 was relatively peaceful. There was so little election day violence that news stories on the vote focused on concerns about fraud and the ink used to mark voters hands. Some observers say the quiet on election day can be attributed in large part to the work by Special Forces soldiers - many of them from Fort Bragg - to suppress the insurgents who would have tried to disrupt it. Officials don't think they will be as fortunate in Iraq. The insurgency is...

WASHINGTON -- The United States is expanding its military force in Iraq by 12,000 troops, to the highest level since the war began in March 2003, in order to bolster security in advance of national elections, officials said Wednesday. The expansion will be achieved by sending about 1,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, N.C., this month and by extending the combat tours of about 10,400 troops already in Iraq.

A crowd of dignitaries, including two congressmen, waited patiently Monday for a red, 6,000-pound wrecking ball to begin smashing a two-story building on Fort Bragg. The crowd laughed nervously, but the crane operator, unable to get the ball swinging, could do no more than tap at the brick walls. Finally, the crane backed off, and a track-hoe rumbled up and methodically began to break the building apart. Roof, bricks and boards crashed down in clouds of dust as the track-hoe worked on the long building in the Nijmegen housing area on Rhine Road. The building had housed eight families. The...

FORT BRAGG, N.C., April 16, 2004 -- Golf superstar Tiger Woods traded in his green jacket for an Army battle dress uniform and his golf spikes for combat boots this week to follow in his father's footsteps and train with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. The world's top-ranked golfer, whose father is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in the Army's Special Forces, said he was "amazed to see how dedicated everyone is" and praised the contributions the soldiers make every day to the nation's security. Woods said that in many respects, the physical and mental demands of the...

The Army last week approved the transfer of four M8 Armored Gun Systems from contractor storage facilities to the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, NC, sources say, marking the first time the vehicles will be used by the service since the program was terminated in 1996. Proposed in the 1980s as a lightweight combat vehicle that could fit aboard a C-130, the AGS was canceled as the Army struggled to pay for other priorities. Contractor United Defense LP, which fought the cancellation decision, has five M8 AGS vehicles in stock -- four in York, PA, and one in San...

TOMBSTONE -- Longtime friends, military personnel and members of the Cochise County Sheriff's Department gathered at Tombstone City Park Saturday to pay tribute to Aaron Light, Arizona's first wounded soldier to return home from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Light, who graduated from Tombstone High School in 2001, was greeted with hugs and well wishes from the string of people who were there to honor him. About 60 people attended the event. Wearing his dress greens, Light spoke briefly to the crowd, thanking them for attending the welcome home tribute "I was just doing my job. I pray and hope for the...

Commando Solo II: Weapons of Mass Persuasion By Gunnery Sgt. Charles Portman, U.S. Central Command Public Affairs Office CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, QATAR, March 19, 2003 -- U.S. Special Operations personnel armed with broadcasting equipment and “the truth” are preparing the Iraqi people and military for a possible U.S.-led strike against Saddam Hussein.  “We call ourselves ‘weapons of mass persuasion,’ ” said Air Force Lt. Col. “Mike,” a Commando Solo II detachment commander. U.S. Central Command officials said the Commando Solo II effort may have played a role with the surrender of 17 Iraqi soldiers earlier today near the border of...

Published on: 2002-10-02 New trial sought for ex-soldier By Henry Cuningham Military editor ARLINGTON, Va. - Military lawyers for a former Fort Bragg sergeant on Tuesday asked that a military appeals court schedule a new trial or set aside his death sentence. Kreutzer The former soldier, William Kreutzer, was sentenced to death for killing Maj. Stephen M. Badger and wounding 18 others after he opened fire on about 1,300 soldiers on Fort Bragg in 1995. Col. Adele Odegard, a lawyer for Kreutzer, told a three-judge panel for the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals that Kreutzer's court-martial at Fort Bragg...

(CBS) The Pentagon is considering sending a medical team to see whether there are any links between a series of domestic killings at Fort Bragg and an anti-malaria drug taken by soldiers. Four wives of soldiers at Fort Bragg were killed in a six-week span this summer. Each death is blamed on the husband. Three of the four men were Special Operations soldiers who had recently returned from Afghanistan. Two of the soldiers killed themselves after killing their wives. The Special Ops soldiers reportedly all took Lariam, a drug given to troops serving in places - like Afghanistan - where...

Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer August 15, 2002 Bragg Ends Confinement Of Soldiers By Henry Cuningham, Staff writer Fort Bragg has released hundreds of soldiers who had been forbidden to go home because of a missing piece of equipment. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers were released at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday because the commanders decided to turn the search into a criminal investigation, a spokesman said. Officials will not say what is missing, only that it is a "sensitive item." "We have searched everywhere the sensitive item could be," said Maj. Rich Patterson, a spokesman for the division. "Once that search is exhausted,...

Lariam connection to Bragg killings? Mark Benjamin and Dan Olmsted UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published 8/7/2002 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- At least one of the four Fort Bragg soldiers suspected of killing his wife this summer had apparently been taking an anti-malarial drug associated with aggression, paranoia and suicidal thoughts, United Press International has learned. That soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Rigoberto Nieves, shot and killed himself after shooting his wife, Teresa, in a bathroom of their Fayetteville home on June 11, just two days after returning early from service in Afghanistan, according to police. In another case, Sam Pennica...

Fayetteville (NC) Observer August 4, 2002 Army Wives Sought Separation Marital woes preceded deaths By Christina DeNardo, Staff writer Four Fort Bragg wives allegedly killed by their husbands had at least one thing in common that could have contributed to their deaths. According to family, friends and investigators, the women wanted out of their marriages. In January, Jennifer Wright told her parents she was "tired of being a military wife" and wanted a divorce. Investigators said her husband, Master Sgt. William Wright, killed her at the end of June. They said he confessed three weeks later and led authorities to...

Victims wanted out of marriages Army wives' cases show similarities The Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE - Four Army wives who investigators say were killed by their husbands all wanted to get out of their marriages, The Fayetteville Observer reported Sunday. In January, Jennifer Wright, 32, told her parents she was "tired of being a military wife" and wanted a divorce. Investigators said her husband, Master Sgt. William Wright, 36, killed her at the end of June. They said he confessed three weeks later and led authorities to her body. Marilyn Griffin, 32, separated from her husband in May. Two months later,...

A 15-year-old girl was charged Friday with murder in the shooting death of her father, a Fort Bragg soldier. Aldridge Park. The girl was found hiding under a couch in the Sunset Mobile Home Park, according to Miranda Eldridge, who lives in the mobile home where the girl was arrested. The police would not divulge the name of the person arrested because the suspect is under 16, but Eldridge identified her as Elizabeth Shannon.Her father, Maj. David Shannon, was shot on July 23 as he slept in the bedroom of his home in Cottonade, according to the police. On Tuesday,...