Hancock Field-based unit prepares for deployment this summer, switch to drones
The 174th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard is preparing for a major change - the switch from F-16 fighter jets to unmanned Reaper aircraft. But the wing has a more immediate mission ahead of it - another deployment to Iraq.
Col. Anthony Basile, the [...]

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Nainoa Kealiihokuhelelani Hoe, who was born 30 years ago under a full moon, died three years ago this month under a similar moon when he was felled by a sniper’s bullet in Mosul, Iraq.The 1995 Kamehameha Schools graduate’s middle name means the “ali’i moon that travels the heavens.”
Now, in a blending of Hawaiian warrior tradition [...]

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THREE British soldiers have been wounded in a rocket attack on their base near Basra today.
An Army spokesman said multiple rockets were apparently launched from the city, which is about 12 miles away, although he said the attack was still being investigated.
Three British soldiers were slightly wounded, but no major damage was reported on the [...]

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KABUL, Jan 31 (KUNA) — A deputy provincial governor and five more people were killed in a suicide blast inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday.
The bomber blew himself inside a mosque in Lashkargah, capital of the country’s southern Helmand province when people were busy praying.
Pir Mohammad was among the six people killed in [...]

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LONDON, Jan 31 (KUNA) — Nearly 1,000 new British Army recruits could have their combat training halved to meet a shortage of troops available to deploy to Afghanistan, it was reported here Thursday.
Under plans being considered by the Army, some newly-enlisted soldiers would spend just 14 weeks on a combat infantry course instead of the [...]

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KABUL, Jan 31 (KUNA) — One civilian was killed and five more people were wounded in an apparent suicide bomb attack in this central capital of Afghanistan early on Thursday. The explosion took place in the Tahimani locality of the city. The attacker tried to target a bus carrying personnel of the Defence Ministry to [...]

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NNS080130-08. USS Connecticut Arrives Home to Naval Base Kitsap,
Bremerton
– http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34679
NNS080130-06. Miami Returns From Deployment
– http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34670
NNS080130-05. Project ‘Protect’ Provides Emergency Kits to NAS Whidbey
Island Sailors
– http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34666
NNS080130-04. USS Ponce Returns from Gulf
– http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34631
NNS080130-03. Navy Engineers Search for Water in the Horn of Africa
– http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34593
NNS080130-02. Daily News Update for January 30, 2008
– http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34675
NNS020108-20. This Day in Naval History [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 30 (KUNA) — Iraqi Army soldiers detained 24 individuals on January 27th during the joint air assault operation “Iron Boston”, with US Army forces in the Sayed Abdullah Corridor, a US Army statement said on Wednesday.
Iraqi Army and soldiers from Companies C and D, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, [...]

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SARAJEVO, Jan 30 (KUNA) — Chairman of the Tri-presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nebojsa Radmanovic said Wednesday his country intended to raise the number of its troops in Iraq within the next month.
Speaking to Sarajevo Radio, he objected to calls not to raise the number of troops on grounds that this did not serve the [...]

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101st soldiers honored, combat badges awarded
TIKRIT, Iraq - The 101st Airborne Division leadership, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser and Command Sgt. Major Vincent Comacho, visited 1st Brigade Combat Team “Bastogne” in Salah ad Din province Jan. 28.
The Screaming Eagle leaders first visited soldiers of 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment at Forward Operating Base Summerall, near Bayji. [...]

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