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<p>Full Title: Special Forces hero who led secret mission to blow up Saddam Hussein's communications network dies from 'human Mad Cow Disease'</p> <p>An ultra-fit Special Forces hero who led a real-life “mission impossible” behind enemy lines has died from the rare human form of Mad Cow Disease.</p>

If you want to see the face of transformation – if you want to see what it looks like in action – you need not look any further than Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. That's the view from the top by Retired Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski, chief of the Defense Department's Office of Force Transformation and one of the department's chief architects in the effort to transform the military. During a recent interview, Cebrowski said several elements of OEF and OIF were both representative of transformation and historic. He cited speed of operations as an example – speed of...

Defense officials announced today the identities of five soldiers killed while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Three soldiers were killed on Dec. 24, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on Highway One near Samarra, Iraq. Maj. Christopher J. Splinter, 43, of Platteville, Wis.; Capt. Christopher F. Soelzer, 26, of South Dakota.; and Sgt. Benjamin W. Biskie, 27, of Vermilion, Ohio. The soldiers were assigned to the 5th Engineer Battalion, 1st Engineer Brigade, based in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Command Sgt. Major Eric F. Cooke, 43, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was killed on Dec. 24, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Cooke was...

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%.

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