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The Department of Defense released the names of the Black Hawk helicopter crew from Schofield Barracks in Hawaii who were killed Thursday in a crash in southern Afghanistan.

Two Schofield soldiers were killed in an attack in Afghanistan's Kunar province, the Department of Defense said today. Staff Sgt. James M. Christen, 29, of Loomis, Calif., and Sgt. Jacob Molina, 27, of Houston, Texas, died Tuesday of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated, according to a news release. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Twelve Schofield soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team have been killed in mountainous and rebellious Kunar — the site of some of the greatest U.S. losses in the...

KIRKUK — The sound of emergency sirens streaked through the K-1 Iraqi Army Base as fire trucks and ambulances escorted by military vehicles rushed outside the base to respond to a simulated catastrophic event with massive casualties. The recent MASCAL training exercise was a joint effort between the Iraqi army and medical personnel and 25th Infantry Division Soldiers from nearby Forward Operating Base Warrior. In addition to providing urgent medical care to actors playing casualties on the ground, the responders had to deal with the real-world risks of operating outside the security of the base. With Iraqi and U.S. military...

Staff Sgt. James Lee, 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, directs a formation of Iraqi Soldiers from the 1st Strategic Infrastructure Brigade near Kirkuk. Lee has been helping to train the 1st SIB, which protects the oil infrastructure, for the past six months. KIRKUK -- Staff Sgt. James Lee looked like a proud father. A group of Iraqi Strategic Infrastructure Brigade soldiers, who Lee has been helping to train for six months, huddled around him after showing off their warrior skills during a demonstration for Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander, Multi-National Division -...

CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait (Army News Service, Oct. 16, 2006) – On the way to a yearlong deployment in Iraq, 307 Soldiers of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, participated in the Army’s largest-ever reenlistment ceremony held during a deployment Saturday. Headquartered at Fort Richardson, Alaska, the unit ceremony took place at Camp Buehring, where the Soldiers stopped for final preparations before entering Iraq. “This ceremony says a lot about the personal courage and selfless service of these paratroopers,” said Command Sgt. Maj. David Turnbull, command sergeant major for the 4th BCT, 25th Inf. “They understand they have...

Whether on foot patrol, or from a Stryker, the Weapons Squad checks out certain hot spots one neighborhood at a time MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 25, 2005 – They’re loaded to the hilt with weapons, armor and ammunition. They roll out in their Stryker Light Armored Vehicle to beat the 120-degree-streets, smiling, waiving, and keeping rapport with the locals. They are also searching, detaining, confiscating. Anything to accomplish the mission. "We’ve had vehicles hit with IEDs, have all 8 tires blown off, and still the vehicle drove back to camp on just the rims. You can hardly do damage to the...

Coalition doctors give Zaleikha a reason to smile Story by 2nd Lt. Christy Kercheval, Combined Joint Task Force 76 Public Affairs BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan—Knowing the skills of the Coalition doctors at Bagram, Zaleikha and her uncle hoped just showing up at the Bagram gate would be enough. The pair traveled from Farah, on the other side of Afghanistan from Bagram, to see if Coalition surgeons could operate on 10-year-old Zaleikha and repair her cleft palate. Once the doctors were made aware of the girl’s needs, they were eager to do what they could for her. Colonel Dallas Homas, a Combined...

European Stars and Stripes August 3, 2004 In Afghanistan, Apache Troop Makes The Battle Come To Them By Jon R. Anderson, Stars and Stripes FORWARD OPERATING BASE TIGER, Afghanistan — Frustrated that Taliban fighters were making themselves scarce, cavalry commander Capt. Brian Peterson ordered his psychological operations detachment to find a way to get the enemy onto the battlefield. Their solution: shame. The soldiers drove into the mountainous region of southern Afghanistan near Tarin Kowt, a known Taliban stronghold, and blared through Humvee-mounted loudspeakers a simple message. “Take off your burqas,” Afghan interpreters shouted, referring to the head-to-toe powder blue...

In the dark of the morning, 250 troops from the US 25th Infantry Division quietly boarded an Air Force plane and, as the Hawaiian dawn broke over the mountains behind them, were soon heading for Iraq. Those soldiers, and 4800 more from Hawaii, are part of what may be the most extensive movement of American military men and women since the end of World War II. From the continental United States to Japan and South Korea, to Iraq and Afghanistan and south to Australia - many of the 380,000 US armed forces, serving in 120 countries, are on the move....