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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2007 – Army and Navy drummers, buglers and cheerleaders stormed the halls of the Pentagon over the past two days, rallying or roiling soldiers and sailors in their wake before tomorrow’s Army-Navy football game. The Navy Midshipmen, who enter the game with a 7-4 record, will try for their fifth consecutive win against the 3-8 Army Black Knights in the 108th year the teams face off on the gridiron. Despite being 14-point underdogs, the indomitable Black Knights, on hand at the Pentagon today, are poised to soldier on at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore tomorrow. Lifting a...

Black Knights Work ‘Outside the Gate’ Fires Brigade soldiers operate out of their traditional roll to keep others safe in Baghdad. By Sgt. 1st Class Jerry MalecFires Brigade Public Affairs Office4th Infantry Division CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, Oct. 17, 2006 -- Multi-National Division Baghdad’s Fires Brigade soldiers have had a break from their usual mission manning the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System during the past four months. The soldiers of Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment, Fires Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, known as the Black Knights, recently conducted reconnaissance patrols outside the wire on a daily basis. The...

U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Adkins, a member of Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, and a Bay Town, Texas native, examines where a rocket-propelled grenade struck the armor plating on his Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicle during a "movement to contact" patrol in Sadr City. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Erik LeDrew Prepared for the Worst, Hoping for the Best Task Force Lancer Up to the Task of Defeating Illegal Militia   By U.S. Army Pfc. Erik LeDrew / 122nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment CAMP EAGLE, BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2004 — They mount up in their Bradley Armored...

NAVAL AIR STATION ATSUGI, Japan: A squadron of 11 US F-14 fighters flew out of this base just south of Tokyo on Wednesday for the last time, ending a 12-year deployment in Japan. Fighter Squadron VF-154, known as the Black Knights, was being relocated to Naval Air Station Lemoore, California in keeping with the Navy's policy of retiring its aging F-14 Tomcat fleet. According to a Navy statement, the squadron was initially deployed to this base in August 1981 to join Carrier Air Wing Five. This year, flying off the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk, it joined coalition forces...