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<p>Camp New Jersey, Kuwait — Leaders of the 4th Infantry Division are preparing to join the campaign in Iraq, planning for an undisclosed mission that could run the gamut from combat to peacekeeping.</p> <p>They will have the advantage of a roadmap, of sorts, provided by the 3rd Infantry Division , which now sits in and around Baghdad after opening the ground war.</p>

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 23 -- One soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed and 13 were wounded this morning when two hand grenades were thrown into the 1st Brigade technical operations center at Camp Pennsylvania in central Kuwait, U.S. Army officials said.A U.S. soldier assigned to the brigade was in custody, the officials said. The soldier who was killed was not idenfitied.

10 U.S. Soldiers Hurt In Grenade Attack March 22, 2003 Ten U.S. soldiers were injured, six or seven of them seriously, in a grenade and small arms attack at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is traveling with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. Strassmann said the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire. "From our reports it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent," said George...

At least 60 and as many at 250 Iraqis surrendered. Col. Steve Cox of the British Marines told the Reuters news agency that U.S. Marines under British command captured 250 Iraqis near Umm Qasr. Television images from other parts of Iraq also showed Iraqi prisoners, marching in single file with their hands behind their heads. Sahhaf, the Iraqi information minister, said the images were fabricated. "Those were not Iraqi soldiers at all," he said. "Where did they get them from?" As Rumsfeld stated again today, the United States has undertaken a major effort to persuade Iraqi troops to lay down...

US Marines had a near miss when one of several Iraqi missiles fired at Kuwait landed near their camp in the Gulf Arab state's northern desert. "An unidentified missile struck outside Camp Commando at approximately 10.28 (0728 GMT) this morning," a statement by the US Marine Corps First Marine Expeditionary Force said."Initial reports cited that soldiers from the UK and (US) Marines sighted a grey missile land just outside the compound."Iraq retaliated after US missiles rained down on Baghdad - by firing four missiles on targets in Kuwait.Washington insisted the missiles were scuds but Baghdad insisted it did not...

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait March 20 — After weeks on standby in the Kuwaiti desert, U.S. troops welcomed news that war was underway and said they were eager for orders to cross into Iraq."It's a relief we can finally go," said Spc. Robert McDougal, 21, of Paris, Texas, as the 101st Airborne broke camp Thursday."Standing by is the hardest thing to do," he said. "It is time to put our training to the test."Scores of vehicles, including bulldozers, humvees and trucks full of equipment and supplies, lined up in Camp New Jersey, ready to move out. A dust storm that...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait As U.S. troops roll toward the Iraqi border this week, they have been given orders on two matters of decorum: no throwing candy to Iraqi children, and no displaying flags regimental, state or even the American flag. Military officials say that candy give-aways would draw swarms of children to the convoys, a dangerous proposition with thousands of trucks, Humvees, and trailers barreling toward Baghdad. As for the ban on flags, its effect was apparent in this camp Wednesday, where no more than a handful of vehicles mustering...

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait - Army reservist Brandon Beyer got fired up before his first overseas deployment. He would drive around his hometown of White Bear Lake, Minn., see the antiwar signs posted all over town, and his blood would boil.

<p>That's Air Assault."</p> <p>Iraqi soldiers running toward them trying to surrender.</p>

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 15 -- With a force only one-third the size of the one that liberated Kuwait 12 years ago, U.S. commanders poised to attack Iraq have been given a far more ambitious mission: March hundreds of miles to Baghdad, neutralize the Iraqi military, overthrow President Saddam Hussein and then prevent a country the size of California from disintegrating into chaos. The war plan they have devised to do all this is by most accounts innovative, even daring. "We literally could be in Baghdad in three or four days," said one general here in the field. "How...

<p>CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait -- After a week, life for the soldiers of the 101st Airborne has settled into a windy, sandy, exhausting routine.</p> <p>Each morning, well before dawn, long lines of young infantrymen shuffle through a thick desert haze to the live-fire ranges where they practice shooting, breaching Iraqi trenches and waging urban warfare.</p> <p>Each afternoon, as the heat of the day turns their faces deep red, they train in battlefield first aid, combat rules of engagement and the evacuation of surrendering prisoners of war.</p>

Kuwait Sandstorms Tough for U.S. Soldiers (THE SADISTIC UN IS COUNTING ON THIS!!!) Fri Mar 7, 8:09 PM ET CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait - Pfc. Charles Bryant got lost for three hours on the way back to his tent, disoriented by thick clouds of sand swirling at 50 mph in this desert camp near the Iraqi border. Sandstorms, a gritty and miserable fact of life in the Persian Gulf region this time of year, are making things uncomfortable for troops waiting for a possible war with Iraq (news - web sites). They also present major problems for U.S. war planners....

CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait - Pfc. Charles Bryant got lost for three hours on the way back to his tent, disoriented by thick clouds of sand swirling at 50 mph in this desert camp near the Iraqi border. Sandstorms, a gritty and miserable fact of life in the Persian Gulf region this time of year, are making things uncomfortable for troops waiting for a possible war with Iraq. They also present major problems for U.S. war planners. The international dispute over whether to resort to military force threatens to push the start of war to late spring with its inevitable...