- SKorea's military teed off with golfing officers: officials (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Dozens of South Korean military reservist officers face punishment for playing golf while supposedly on duty, officials said Thursday.
- Philippine military send medical teams to fight typhoid outbreak (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Philippine military has mobilised medical teams to help fight an outbreak of typhoid fever that has left more than 100 people hospitalised northeast of Manila, according to the military.
- America's Best Leaders: U.S. Junior Officers, Military (US News & World Report)
Rising in the military ranks with a wisdom forged by war.
- Military examining Iraqi shooting (UPI)
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. military in Baghdad Wednesday said it was working on updates to an investigation into the shooting of American troops by an Iraqi soldier in Mosul.
- U.S. military: 8 bodies found in Baghdad (USA Today)
The U.S. military says the remains of at least eight people have been unearthed in a mass grave in a mainly Shiite area in Baghdad.
- US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,200 (Boston Globe)
As of Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, at least 4,200 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
- U.S. military officials criticize Iraq security pact (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon has officially welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President George W. Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for the next three years than the U.S. had ever contemplated. Officials said U.S. negotiators had failed to understand how the ...
- US military launches its own version of YouTube (Guardian Unlimited)
Chapter 42 in the chronicles of niche websites: The US military has launched an official video-sharing site for American forces and their families called TroopTube , built by Seattle-based startup Delve Networks . This flies slightly against the reasons the military gave for banning access to YouTube , as well as MySpace and others, in May last year when they said it was partly ...
- Golfing reservists anger military chiefs (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Dozens of South Korean military reservist officers face punishment for playing golf while supposedly on duty, officials say.
- US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,200 (The Charlotte Observer)
(The Associated Press) As of Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, at least 4,200 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,393 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The AP count is three fewer than ...
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