Military Uniforms News
- Museum plans war reenactment Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:16PMThe North Platte Telegraph The boom and crack of cannons will explode through North Platte this fall, as the community hosts its first American Civil War reenactment.
- In 1910, labor was still the focus of Labor Day Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:21PMLike some other holidays, Labor Day has come to be an American tradition more honored for the three-day weekend it provides than as a reminder of the purpose for which it was created.
- Missouri WASP vet dies Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:11PMFrom the time she was a little girl, Mary Burch Nirmaier always knew she wanted to fly airplanes. As she chased that dream, she touched the lives of many people she met along the way.
- There was second survivor from Mexico massacre, officials say Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:04PMA second person survived a massacre in which 72 migrants from Central and South America were killed last week in northern Mexico, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and Mexican officials said.
- Over 400 Team Names Submitted by Fans for the Omaha Royals Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 1:13PMSince the Omaha Royals final home stand got underway on August 21, fans have been able to submit their ideas for a possible new name for Omaha’s Triple-A team in 2011, when it moves into the new ballpark in Sarpy County.
- ROTC members take plunge for water survival test Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:13PMKen Trevarthan Eastern Illinois University Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet Marquan Luckey braces herself after being pushed into the water for the equipment removal exercise Tuesday afternoon (August 31, 2010) during the annual ROTC combat water survival test at the Rotary Pool in Charleston.
- Taking time to say “thanks” Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 11:43AMBy Mary Drier “Thank you” are simple words that mean a lot, but they generally aren’t said often enough. While I was doing a long overdue interview with former Tuscola County Sheriff’s Sgt. Curtis Chambers about his ...
- Martin J. 'Mickey' Garagiola: Voice of 'Wrestling at the Chase,' waiter extraordinaire Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 11:22AMMickey Garagiola, who shared one of the most famous Italian surnames in America, came by his fame through an unusual dual career: waiter and professional wrestling announcer.
- Ohio State uniforms for Michigan game unveiled, are Big Ten divisions next? Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 10:58AMThe Big Ten could announce the divisions later this afternoon
- Let nature rule in Mill River Park Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 7:05PMMany Stamford residents received letters from the Mill River Collaborative asking for donations to help bring the redesign of Mill River Park to fruition. This organization has already accomplished one of its major goals, the return of the river and its land to a more natural, healthy state.
- In words and drawings, soldiers leave their mark in time Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:29PMBY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Vietnam veteran Dan O’Leary still remembers the day he departed from the western shores of the United States on a packed troopship to Vietnam, a 7,000-mile journey across the Pacific almost 45 years ago. read more
- Brookline firefighter headed to Iraq says two jobs ‘coincide’ Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:18PMFor Brookline firefighter Brian Cadman, the upcoming year means switching from riding fire trucks to helicopters, as the 31-year-old leaves for Iraq with the Massachusetts National Guard. Cadman, a sergeant in the Guard and a firefighter at Station 5 in Coolidge Corner for more than two years, said the two jobs parallel each other.
- Police: Accused drug lord moved tons of cocaine to U.S. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:09PMAuthorities in Mexico revealed additional details Tuesday about an accused American-born drug kingpin detained Monday who they say moved tons of cocaine into the United States.
- Reputed kingpin 'La Barbie' nabbed Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:09PMOne of Mexico's most ruthless cartel enforcers, American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, was captured following a shootout with Mexican authorities. He is known as "La Barbie" for his blond, blue-eyed good looks.
- Ohio State uniforms for Michigan game to honor 1942 team with military theme Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 1:49PMThe press release explains that the uniforms will include a camouflage-print base layer.
- WV troops help with new mission in Iraq Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:52AMIn May and June of this year, I was embedded with troops in Iraq. I shadowed U.S. soldiers as they helped train Iraqi police officers and prepared for the combat troops to leave Iraq as the U.S. mission in country shifts.
- Photo of Vietnam veteran chosen for national tour Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:45AMA poignant 8x10 black-and-white photograph of former Freehold Township resident John E. McDonough has been chosen to go a national tour with the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Educational Center’s “Traveling Trunks” program. read more
- Mark Guandolo's son joins Cypress Bay coaching staff Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:49PMMark Guandolo's success as a coach at the high school level has always been about the people he associated himself with. Three decades later, he still lives by the same philosophy.
- Nine O'Clock Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:41PMLibyan leader set to meet with Berlusconi, business in focus. ROME - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s attempt to convert dozens of young women to Islam during a visit to Italy led to an angry reaction from Italian media on Monday.
- Drug gangs, smugglers in Mexico and U.S. are increasingly disguising couriers in phony police uniforms and using ... Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:29PMZAPATA, TEX. - The driver was wearing a deputy's uniform and swore he was a real law officer. But to the Border Patrol agents manning a checkpoint here, something just looked funny about the pickup truck with Webb County sheriff decals. Police - Mexico - Gang - Law Enforcement - Law
- 30-plus Insurgents Killed In Afghanistan Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 3:39PMAfghan and coalition forces battled back attacking militant fighters, killing more than 30 of the insurgents in weekend fighting, officials said Sunday.
- 6 Somali civilians die in violence in the capital as fighting goes into its 2nd week Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:24PMFighting in Somalia's capital killed at least six civilians on Monday as clashes between Islamist militants and pro-government forces entered a second week.
- CFB Esquimalt, Home of the Canadian Pacific Fleet Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 1:44PMMS Michelle Verville, a medical technician from 11 Field Ambulance, assesses a boy from Gam on Mare Island, North Maluku, Indonesia. A group of Canadian Forces health care providers are getting the experience of a lifetime providing health care to impoverished countries of Southeast Asia.
- The fight for veterans’ rights Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:31AMLocal U. S. Army Veteran Jerry Orman applauds the group of physicians who recently called for the resignation of the medical director of the G. V. “Sonny” Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, but says other administrators should leave, too.
- Museum off and flying Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:04AMThe Harvard Historical Aviation Society is quietly building a treasure trove of memorabilia for a future museum.
- Afghan militants in U.S. uniforms storm 2 NATO bases Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 9:54AMKABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. and Afghan troops repelled attackers wearing American uniforms and suicide vests in a pair of simultaneous assaults before dawn Saturday on NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack last year. The raids appear part of an insurgent strategy to step up attacks in widely scattered parts of the country as the U.S ...
- Uganda: Police Review Chance to Make the Force Better Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:15AMIn Uganda, most people believe the Police are brutal. Studies, commissions of inquiry and indexes, one after another, have, over the years, highlighted that the Police force is corrupt, brutal, barbaric, cruel with policing standards far below those required of such a civilian force in a democratic society.
- Suspected rebels, disguised as cops, kill army commander Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:08AMSuspected New People's Army rebels, wearing police uniforms, abducted an Army detachment commander in Negros Occidental and shot him in front of his daughter on Saturday.
- Tattle: In Big Easy, a saint comes marching in: Sandra Bullock Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:04AMTHE TRADITONAL gift for a fifth anniversary is wood, but for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Bullock gave a health clinic.
- Soldiers to join demonstration against wage cuts Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 1:14AMPrague, Aug 27 (CTK) - Czech soldiers will join the demonstration of police and firemen against the planned austerity measures, including wage cuts, on September 21, head of police trade unions Milan Stepanek told CTK Friday.
- An original Code Talker keeps tale alive Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 1:11AMALBUQUERQUE — Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon.
- Guns and poses Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 12:19AMWho is Hakan Ayik? In the first of a two-part series, Nick McKenzie looks at the target of one of Australia's biggest investigations into organised crime.
- Joy and tears greet US Army troops back from Iraq Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 11:53PMWashington (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 Mothers cried and children squealed with delight as a company of US troops arrived back from Iraq on Saturday, after a year-long tour marked by desert heat and monotony. A crowd of families roared as 124 soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, arrived marching in formation, part of a wave of homecomings as President Barack Obama scales ...
- Myanmar chief ensures loyalty with landmark army reshuffle Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 11:52PMBangkok (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 The scale of Myanmar's secretive military reshuffle, its largest in decades, reveals the junta chief's determination to maintain his superiority as a rare election approaches, analysts say. More than 70 senior military positions have changed, and top brass including the army number three have retired from their posts to stand in the November 7 poll - the country's ...
- David Isenberg: Taking the Private out of PMC Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 10:37PMThe most important word in the phrase private security contractors is "private." If and when someone working for a PSC does something wrong the company,...
- And the bands played on ... Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 5:28AMStaff Writer It's that time of year again — time to learn fresh music, master new marches, and stay in time with that woodblock beat or else.
- No napping in uniform, Taiwan tells soldiers Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 4:12AMTAIWAN'S military has banned its soldiers from napping - or even closing their eyes - while wearing their uniforms in public, media and the defence ministry yesterday. The ban has immediately met a hail of criticism, including from soldiers who say they are being treated like robots.
- York Returns from Service in Qatar Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 2:39AMSeeing an open schedule for the summer months, Air Force Reserve member Marie York volunteered to serve at a base in a Middle Eastern country and do her part for the war efforts.
- Myanmar ministers 'quit army' Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 11:27PMSenior members of military removing uniforms to stand in November 7 polls, official says.
- Germans at war over changes to military Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 8:20PMIt is the only duty that is demanded of young people that enables a life in freedom and, in the final analysis, peace.General Klaus Naumann, former chief of staff.True to its dark past, Germany has found itself in contortions over...
- Sean McFarland's tiny photos, big vision Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 7:36PMThe paradoxes of representation get writ small in landscape imagery: The unframeable framed, a frozen moment betokening time's passage, whereas only shifting shadows can inscribe it. Sean McFarland has this and much else nailed in his one-wall show of... Business - Religion and Spirituality - Arts - United States - Sean Hayes
- Iraq: Zaha Hadid to Design Bank Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 7:33PMThe architect has been appointed to design a new headquarters for the central bank in Baghdad, two months after an assault on the existing building left at least 15 people dead.
- Attack on Somali civilians sparks worries of militia's growing boldness Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 6:37PMViolence has long riven Somalia. But the carnage at the Hotel Muna on Tuesday has placed the country's besieged capital on edge, triggering a collective dread that the conflict has entered a dangerous new phase. Militia - Terrorism - Somalia - Government - United States
- Russian watches from Germany Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 6:30PMThe roots of the German watch brand ‘Poljot International’ go back to a mass product watch factory in Soviet Moscow. The current success of the company, however, is inseparably linked with German quality and the ambitious Russian engineer Alexander Shorokhov.
- Two million and counting Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:26PMTRIANGLE — When Gloria Campbell and her grandsons Norman, 7, and Nizar, 5, walked through the doors of the National Museum of the Marine Corps for their first visit shortly after 2 p.m. on Aug. 18, they made history.
- Myanmar army reshuffle ahead of vote: officials Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 11:08AMYANGON: Myanmar's feared junta has carried out a major military reshuffle ahead of rare elections, officials said Friday, dismissing a report that ruler Than Shwe was among those shedding their uniforms.
- New addition gives Muenster Musuem room to display city’s history Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:55AMGood news on the historical and cultural front — the Ben and Aggie Seyler Muenster Museum is expanding to make room for more exhibits and future growth. Keeping history alive is one function of a museum, and walking through the Muenster Museum is one way to go back in time.
- Myanmar in major military reshuffle ahead of vote: official Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:31AMMyanmar's feared junta has undertaken a major military reshuffle ahead of rare elections, an official said today, without confirming reports that Than Shwe was among those shedding their uniforms.
- Notes From an Embed in Iraq: A Lesson Learned Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 3:26PMIraqi Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey on a patrol in the Mosul region MOSUL, Iraq | We're out in a nine-humvee convoy with Federal Police Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey, whose Baghdad-based unit has the job of weeding anti-government insurgents out of western Mosul far to the north. It's the most dangerous section of the city -- where terror groups of various stripes, al-Qaida and non-AQ alike, have made ...
- In The Shelter Of Hope - Sadness And Elation For Pakistan's Flood Survivors Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 3:15PMMany of the flood victims in Pakistan have lost everything, and thousands have fled to emergency shelters in schools in the city of Multan. They are traumatized and desperate - but they have found hope in the story of a young orphan who found new parents in the midst of the chaos.