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WASHINGTON — Russia is mounting “very active efforts” to interfere with the U.S. election to benefit President Trump, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Thursday. Unlike their activities during the 2016 presidential election, the Russians do not seem to be using their cyber capabilities to target the U.S. election infrastructure, according to Wray. Instead, the Kremlin’s approach is one of “malign foreign influence,” with Russia utilizing “social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, etc.,” he told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee. Without mentioning Trump by name, the FBI director said Russia’s actions represent “an...

The U.S. Army will drastically redesign its combat forces, starting next year with the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) and 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), to create more brigade-size units to rotate into combat zones. These new "brigade units of action" will be smaller than today’s divisions, but might include division-level assets, such as artillery and aviation. In theory, they will gain back what they give up in size by connecting through digital networks to other Army, joint and allied units. The Army wants the first of the brigades ready to deploy within a year, possibly to Iraq. The division reorganization...

April 06, 2003 Soldiers find secret recipe at son of Saddam's bombed estate By Sean D. Naylor Times staff writer WEST OF BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops have not yet cooked Saddam Hussein’s goose, but they’ve eaten a lot of his son’s chicken. The opportunity for the unexpected feast, all the more welcome for exhausted soldiers who have eaten little but MREs for the last two weeks, came April 4 when soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized)’s 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment happened upon an estate owned by Hussein’s eldest son, Uday. The troops were trying to locate the source...

<p>WEST OF BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops have not yet cooked Saddam Hussein’s goose, but they’ve eaten a lot of his son’s chicken.</p> <p>The opportunity for the unexpected feast, all the more welcome for exhausted soldiers who have eaten little but MREs for the last two weeks, came April 4 when soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized)’s 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment happened upon an estate owned by Hussein’s eldest son, Uday. The troops were trying to locate the source of a mortar that had shelled the squadron’s tactical operations center about 9 miles southwest of Baghdad. Locals told them that a nearby estate belonged to Uday, a man with an international reputation for combining a playboy lifestyle with thuggish brutality.</p>

<p>CENTRAL IRAQ — At least two Iraqi ultralight aircraft flew over a patch of desert Friday where thousands of U.S. soldiers and several command and control facilities are located. The appearance of enemy aircraft over U.S. positions is especially alarming because the military believes ultralight aircraft of the type spotted Friday may be used to deliver chemical or biological weapons.</p>

<p>CENTRAL IRAQ — For a few long, terrifying minutes, Pfc. Adam Small faced every armor soldier’s nightmare: the prospect of burning to death while trapped in his own disabled tank.</p> <p>He was saved, like so many soldiers before him, by a couple of squared-away, quick-thinking NCOs.</p>

Army Times/Mansfield News Journal (Ohio) EAST BANK OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq - Two American M1A1 Abrams tanks were destroyed Tuesday by fire from what officers believe was an Iraqi truck-mounted anti-tank gun. It was the first time an Abrams has been destroyed by enemy fire in its 20-year history. But the Abrams preserved one important record: All eight crewmen survived without serious injury. No crew member has ever died in an Abrams because of enemy action. The two tanks were lost as the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment pushed to within 80 miles of Baghdad Tuesday...

<p>EAST BANK OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq (March 26, 2003) — A 3rd Infantry Division tank company team fought and destroyed an Iraqi Republican Guard force at point-blank range Tuesday night about 80 miles southwest of Baghdad. The firefight came near the end of a running, 30-hour series of shootouts that the Pentagon is describing as the largest battle of the war. Pentagon officials have put the number of Iraqi troops killed by the 3rd Infantry as anywhere from 150 to 650. No Americans were reported killed, although two Abrams tanks and a Bradley fighting vehicle were destroyed by enemy fire. The American soldiers accomplished this even in the midst of a swirling, blinding sandstorm that grounded its scout and attack helicopters.</p>

<p>EAST BANK OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq — Capt. Clay Lyle's voice on the radio gave no hint of the violence that was about to erupt.</p> <p>"We're in contact," Lyle said calmly.</p> <p>The fighting began at 8:30 p.m. Monday local time (12:30 p.m. ET Monday) when about 200 Iraqi troops ambushed the 500-vehicle convoy at night along the western bank of the Euphrates.</p>