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SILVER CITY -- There were no emotional tears shed, only a well-known ear-to-ear smile from former prisoner of war Cpl. Joseph Hudson when he was reunited Monday afternoon with two of the Marines who rescued him from captivity. "I'm just ecstatic," Hudson said with enthusiasm. "It's really awesome. These are my two heroes standing next to me." Hudson, Sgt. Sam Overton and Lance Cpl. Curney Russell, dressed in their Class A uniforms, solidified their friendship during Silver City's 30th annual Marine Corps Birthday Ball. The Marine Corps turned 228 years old Monday. Hudson first met Overton and Russell on April...

Ex-POW From N.M. Re-Enlists Army Gets Alamogordo Soldier For 2 More Years POSTED: 3:03 p.m. MDT May 30, 2003 UPDATED: 3:41 p.m. MDT May 30, 2003 EL PASO, Texas -- A former prisoner of war in Iraq has re-enlisted. Army Spc. Joseph Hudson of Alamogordo, N.M., is one of six former POWs from the 507th Maintenance Company at Fort Bliss. He was among the POWs freed in mid-April. Hudson will serve two more years. He said he hopes to teach other soldiers how to survive captivity. The 507th was ambushed by Iraqi forces on March 23 near Nasiriyah when...

Spc. Joseph Hudson was congratulated Thursday at Fort Bliss by fellow former prisoner of war Spc. Shoshana Johnson after Hudson re-enlisted for two years of service. Both soldiers were captured March 23 in Iraq and freed April 13. Maj. Gen. Stanley Green, left, Fort Bliss commanding general, thanked Spc. Joseph Hudson on Thursday for his service in the Army. Spc. Joseph Hudson, surrounded by family members and four other former prisoners of war from Fort Bliss' 507th Maintenance Company, re-enlisted Thursday for another two years in the Army and hopes to teach soldiers how to survive capture. "I'd like to...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Seven former prisoners of war were on their way back to their home posts Saturday, much to the relief of community members who for weeks anxiously hoped for their safe return. "I think there was a bit of fear with all of us," Fort Bliss contract worker Jennifer Murphy said. "There was a fear they wouldn't be found, abandoned in a cell to rot."The much-awaited homecomings were set for Saturday night, when a C-17 aircraft was to return five soldiers from Germany to El Paso's Fort Bliss, then head to Fort Hood in central Texas...

Reuters Seven American soldiers rescued in Iraq were held in separate cells in Baghdad during most of their time as prisoners of war but were moved as US forces advanced on the Iraqi capital, The Washington Post reported today. For 12 to 15 days, the former prisoners could hear the nightly bombing raids as US warplanes pounded Baghdad. They were taken to another location after the prison was rattled by a powerful explosion about 50 metres from the building, the report said. It was the first of many moves. The former prisoners told the newspaper they stayed at a total...

IN STRIPED pyjamas and sandals, seven American prisoners of war limped to freedom in northern Iraq yesterday, after their captors had fled from US forces advancing on President Saddam Hussein’s home city of Tikrit. Blinking from the sunlight as they emerged from 22 days of captivity, the six men and one woman clung to their rescuers, barely believing that they had escaped with their lives. News of the rescue, which included two Apache helicopter pilots shot down over Iraq on March 24, was greeted with jubilation by the soldiers’ families. Some wept with relief as they watched television pictures...

Being reported on CNN - 6 POWs - found alive. No more information.

Families of recovered US servicemen notified WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - Several families of U.S. soldiers captured in the Iraq war said they got official confirmation on Sunday that their relatives were safe, CNN reported. The family of Spc. Soshana Johnson, 30, of Kansas, the only woman officially listed by the Pentagon as a prisoner of war, said the Department of Defense Pentagon told them she had been recovered, according to CNN. Ronald Young Sr., the father of Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Young Jr., a captured Army pilot, said he also received official confirmation that his son was among the...

Seven American POW's, including tewo helicopter pilots as well as members of the 507th Maintenance Company, have been turned over to a Marine unit near amarra without a fight. The unit was in the area for another mission, when an Iraqi policeman apporached and said "I know you are here for the prisoners".

<p>April 12, 2003 -- President Bush yesterday vowed to find the seven missing American POWs, whose whereabouts are still unknown three days after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.</p> <p>"We will use every resource we have to find any POWs that are alive," the president told reporters yesterday. "And we pray that they are alive, because if they are we will find them."</p>

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Families of soldiers missing in Iraq hoped for news of more miraculous rescues as U.S. forces continued dismantling Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad on Wednesday. Anecita Hudson's son is among seven U.S. servicemembers reported captured since the fighting began in Iraq. "I have no doubts my son is out there, and he is very alive and he is waiting to be rescued," said Hudson, mother of Army Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, of Alamogordo, N.M. The family of Marine Sgt. Brendon Reiss, 23, of Caspar, Wyo., who is among 11 servicemembers listed as missing, takes comfort...