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In his farewell address, the president cites Bill Krissoff as among 'the best of our country -- resilient and hopeful, caring and strong.' He is set to go to Iraq with a Marine unit. By Tony Perry 4:34 PM PST, January 16, 2009 Reporting from San Diego -- When his son, Marine Lt. Nathan Krissoff, was killed two years ago in Iraq, Dr. Bill Krissoff found a unique way to honor his memory. He closed up his lucrative orthopedic practice in Truckee, Calif., and, at age 60, joined the Navy medical corps in hopes of being assigned to Iraq to...

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RENO, Nev. – Orthopedic surgeon, Lt. Cmdr. William Krissoff received his commission as a reserve officer in the Navy Medical Corps during a ceremony at his home near Reno, Nev., Nov. 17. Krissoff applied for the commission as a tribute to his son, a Marine officer killed in Iraq last year. 1st Lt. Nathan M. Krissoff served as a Counter Intelligence/Human Intelligence officer with the 3RD Recon Battalion in Iraq. He was killed in action in Al Anbar province in December 2006. Krissoff’s youngest son, 2nd Lt. Austin P. Krissoff, also a Marine officer, recently completed training at The Basic...

Columbine grad following dream, his brother says Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Charles Luke Milam was following a family tradition when he joined the Navy in 1999. "I was in the Navy and so was his grandfather," said his brother, Keith Milam, of Nashville, Tenn. The 26-year-old petty officer, of Littleton, was killed Tuesday during combat in the Helmand province in Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Keith Milam said this was his brother's fourth deployment overseas, having served three tours in Iraq in the past six years. He was sent...

Students on the University of Nevada, Reno campus are told to go home tonight and classes have been cancelled after police received reports of a man wanted on a parole and probation violation. Police say Michael James Sheriff is known to have made threatening remarks regarding the Virginia Tech massacre. Channel 2 has been told Sheriff does not live on campus and he may be armed. Police describe Sheriff as a white man, 5'11'', 175 lbs. with brown hair and blue eyes. If you see him, call 911 immediately. Students on campus told Channel 2 News that they heard reports...

The military has rewritten the book on wartime surgery to combat the wave of injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. The latest strategies for helping fallen warriors. Jan. 26, 2007 - Medicine has always advanced on the battlefield; it was Hippocrates who said that “war is the only proper school for surgeons." But the unprecedented scope of injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan has led the military's medical corps literally to rewrite the book on war surgery. At least 24,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded since the Iraq war began, and another thousand in Afghanistan. With 20,000 more soldiers en route to...

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. military's chief medical officer for Iraq was among a group of 12 high-ranking soldiers killed on Saturday in a helicopter crash outside Baghdad, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Col. Brian Allgood, 46, was an orthopedic surgeon serving as command surgeon in Iraq. He and 11 other officers, mostly combat support personnel, were on what defense officials said was likely an "orientation flight" ahead of the arrival of other soldiers. Defense officials, however, declined discuss the group's specific mission at the time of the crash. Army officials also declined to say why a dozen...

Fallen Marine Jeremy Long's family returned to what's left of their mobile home in Sun Valley on Sunday. They were salvaging anything they could from the home they once lived in -- an electrical fire gutted it Wednesday morning. Kathy Hamilton, Jeremy's mother, said she was looking for one item in particular: "a video Jeremy took... he narrated it... of Zach, of his brother." Zach Long spoke to News Channel Eight inside the room he once shared with Jeremy. "A lot of sadness... it was really hard to actually come back in here... it feels kind of empty," Zach said....

1/9/2007 - WASHINGTON (AFNEWS) -- Air Force AC-130 gunships struck al Qaeda targets in Somalia Jan. 8, news sources reported last night. The operation allegedly hit al Qaeda concentrations in the southern part of the country, but Pentagon officials did not comment. The Navy 5th Fleet moved the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the waters off Somalia in an effort to capture al Qaeda terrorists attempting to flee the country, a 5th Fleet spokesman said. Officials of the United Nations-recognized Somali government said the strikes were aimed at al Qaeda terrorists who planned the attacks against the U.S....

(SALEM) - Q Madp is the only person I know or know of that has dedicated his life to preserving the integrity of those who have died fighting for their nation overseas. Q is a photographer and he has his work cut out for him as the self-appointed unofficial photographer of NW military funerals. He travels to services and he is constantly on the move. When he isn’t driving or shooting pictures, Q spends his time researching combat statistics and adding names to the vast list that he hopes will eventually include every American lost in the combat theaters and...

(CNN) -- President Bush announced on Friday that the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, will be awarded posthumously to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham. In April 2004, Dunham was leading a patrol in an Iraqi town near the Syrian border when the patrol stopped a convoy of cars leaving the scene of an attack on a Marine convoy, according to military and media accounts of the action. An occupant of one of the cars attacked Dunham and the two fought hand to hand. As they fought, Dunham yelled to fellow Marines, "No, no watch his hand." The attacker...

This video is about 15 minutes long, but it shows the true exemplary job that military medical personnel are doing. Take note of the Iraqi pediatrician. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2135920n

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Sept. 23 — They call her the “Black Hawk Down” lady. And in the corner of her dirt yard, beneath rags drying in the sun and next to a bowl of filthy wash water, she keeps a chunk of history that most Americans would probably like to forget. It is the battered nose of a Black Hawk helicopter, from one of the two that got shot down in Mogadishu on Oct. 3, 1993, in an infamous battle that killed 18 Americans, led to a major foreign policy shift and spawned a big movie. The Black Hawk Down lady...