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More than a dozen senior Drug Enforcement Administration agents who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as military reservists claim their bosses within the law enforcement agency ridiculed their service, assigned them to jobs their war injuries made especially difficult -- and, in one case, allegedly planted a cellphone in an agent's car to track his movements and record conversations. The agents, who have filed a formal complaint with a federal watchdog agency over allegations that date back more than a decade, believe they were singled out from other veterans within the agency because their duties caused staffing problems, according to...

Latvia has offered military assistance to Ukraine Latvia has proposed to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine aid in the further development of the Armed Forces and improving defense capabilities , the Latvian Defense Ministry reported . In a telephone conversation Friday, defense ministers of Latvia and Ukraine . Latvian Defense Minister Raymond Vejonis offered under bilateral cooperation to send experts to Ukraine , which could assess what help Latvia could provide the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and its armed forces . "Latvia together with the international community strongly condemned the annexation of the Crimea and Russia expressed its...

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all. I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 2 Thessalonians 3:16-18

The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military Plenipotentiary. His position has been ratified by a national referendum, though scattered disorders still prevail and arrests for acts of sedition are underway. A senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, is one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ignited a firestorm on Monday during an interview with the Chicago Tribune when he expressed his personal viewpoint that homosexuality was "immoral." His remarks were in the context of a discussion about the U. S. military’s policy of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell", that allows gays to serve under the condition that their sexual orientation remain private. Gay activists and homosexual rights advocacy groups have already demanded that Gen. Pace apologize for comments that were characterized as "outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful." Staffers for Pace indicated the General would not apologize for...

Nearly half of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq came from a small town MCKEESPORT, Pa. - Edward "Willie" Carman wanted a ticket out of town, and the Army provided it. Raised in the projects by a single mother in this blighted, old industrial steel town outside Pittsburgh, the 18-year-old saw the U.S. military as an opportunity. "I'm not doing it to you, I'm doing it for me," he told his mother, Joanna Hawthorne, after coming home from high school one day and surprising her with the news. When Carman died in Iraq three years ago at age 27, he had...

HUNDREDS of law professors at the nation's finest law schools, representing the all-but-unanimous views of the legal academy, filed a series of briefs last year on one side of a Supreme Court case. On Web sites and in lecture halls, the professors spoke out about the case, which they called a crucial test for gay rights and free speech. Marshalling their collective intellectual firepower and moral outrage, the professors, from Harvard, Yale and elsewhere, made it sound obvious: Universities should be allowed, they said, to take government money but oppose the military's policies on homosexuality by restricting military recruiting on...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Russian Navy Lieutenant Crowned Beauty Queen of Armed Forces Created: 22.06.2005 11:31 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:25 MSK, 8 hours 57 minutes ago MosNews A lieutenant from the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy was crowned “Army Queen 2005” in the “Beauty in Epaulets” contest held in a Moscow theater Tuesday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. The “queen,” Ksenia Agarkova, was selected from 21 female finalists, all serving in branches of the armed forces ranging from infantry and naval units to the country’s space forces. Ksenia graduated from the St. Petersburg Shipbuilding Institute and for the past two years has...

<p>Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.</p>

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...