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CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait —As Fort Huachuca soldiers wait for their communications equipment to arrive, some are fine-tuning systems that have been in Kuwait for years. A number of tropospheric systems were at Camp Doha were moved to Camp Virginia, where members of the 11th Signal Brigade repaired, checked out and inventoried the four tropos — as called by GIs — that send radio signals into the atmosphere and scatter the signals back to Earth to be used by the Army. Staff Sgt. Jeremy Brown said the systems will eventually head for Iraq, where soldiers of the 40th Signal Battalion will...

All the details of the 507th Maintenance Company element's desperate, bloody battle near the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23 may never be known. But a report released this week by Army investigators raises some serious questions that demand answers, because soldiers' lives could depend on them. One of the most serious questions is about the condition of the 507th's weapons. An executive summary of the Army report says that while the 507th was at Camp Virginia, a staging area in Kuwait, soldiers "... conducted additional training and preparations at Camp Virginia that included ... weapons and vehicle maintenance."...

As coalition forces continue their push into Iraq, thoughts of the battle that awaits them in Baghdad weigh heavy. "It's an inferno that awaits them. Let them try their faltering luck and they shall meet what awaits them," warned a defiant Saddam Hussein. While the soldiers have trained exhaustively for this mission, have the backing of the most powerful military in the world and Iraqi soldiers are surrendering by the droves, war is war. And six of their own have already lost their lives in the line of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cmdr. Doyle Dunn leads sailors, Marines in...

It may look the same, but this military camped out in Kuwait has more experience than the Desert Storm force, and its weapons, in their innards, are far different. V CORPS HEADQUARTERS, CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait -- Gathering from points around the globe to this trackless desert that was the site of its swiftest victory in modern times, the U.S. military appears virtually indistinguishable from the force that liberated Kuwait nearly 12 years ago. The same Abrams M-1 tanks practice desert maneuvers, their tracks pawing the sand, their deadly 120-mm snouts wagging in the wind. Overhead, the same Air Force F-16...

WASHINGTON, March 15 — For the first time, the Bush administration has identified several senior Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein's two sons, who would be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity after an American-led attack on Iraq, a senior American official said today. In addition to Mr. Hussein himself, the list includes members of his inner circle who sit atop a hierarchy of 2,000 members of the Iraqi elite who were previously identified by American intelligence agencies. But only now are the names of the top group being made public. Administration officials said they had planned to send...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/15/03 - Camp Virginia, Camp New York, Op TELIC, USS Gary, Al Hakam BREAKING: Camp Virginia BREAKING: Camp New York, BREAKING: Op TELIC BREAKING: USS Gary rescues eight Iraqi fishermen BREAKING: Al HakamWMD facility. BREAKING: Shi'ite Muslims - Bhopal, Calcutta, Dhaka, Rawalpindi BREAKING: AMERICAN HEROES AND THEIR ALLIES ASSEMBLE TO FREE THE IRAQI PEOPLE ========= At Camp Virginia, somewhere in Kuwait ========= Heroes of the 101st infantry prepare. ========= At Camp New York, somewhere in Kuwait ========= Heroes of the 101st Airborne support battalion prepare (and occasionally rest). ========= US Heroes in...