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Eight of the wounded have returned to duty, and 14 other mental health
reservists have volunteered to fill vacancies and go to Iraq or
Afghanistan.
McCain said he would prohibit officers from mentoring at war games that
deal with weapons systems or other issues of interest to the defense
companies that pay them.
The Macon-based 48th Brigade will spend the holidays deployed, overseas in Afghanistan. Soldiers there won't look forward to fancy gifts like flat screen TV's or a new power tool, just a safe return home to their loved ones. But one group wants to make sure deployed soldiers have a present to open.
On June 15, First Lieutenant Matt Smith was shot by enemy fire in Afghanistan.
Georgia's insurance commissioner said American Fidelity Life Insurance has agreed to refund its life insurance policy holders $275 each.
A group of citizen-soldiers in the Georgia National Guard is back home after serving a yearlong deployment in Iraq.
The Pentagon is flying record numbers of therapists and other mental health workers into combat areas.
You can donate supplies to ship to troops overseas.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the president probably
won't make his decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan until
after the Nov. 7 presidential runoff in that country.
The Red Cross of Central Georgia is organizing a campaign to collect
care packages for Georgia National Guard troops in Afghanistan.
A soldier with the 48th brigade returned from Afghanistan to a ransacked and burglarized home.
Family members of deployed soldiers with the 48th Brigade's Delta
Company gathered in Milledgeville to celebrate the half-way mark
of the deployment to Afghanistan.
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is at odds with some of her top Democratic Colleagues on Afghanistan.
Hundreds of people turned out for Alex French's funeral service, as the 31-year-old Milledgeville man was laid to rest Saturday with a military funeral.
The death toll from a suicide car bombing in Kabul has risen to 17.
Visitation for a 48th Brigade soldier who died in Afghanistan will be held Friday.
Among all Americans, the divide is almost even, with 48% in favor, 45%
opposed. Most of those opposed say Obama should begin to withdraw U.S.
troops rather than commit more.
At least 16 U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan so
far this month -- matching the American death toll for all of October
in 2008.
Sgt. Alex French IV, who was also a Bibb County deputy, died in Afghanistan when a suicide attack hit his convoy.
Officials say it may be weeks before President Barack Obama announces a
decision on whether to modify U.S. the strategy in Afghanistan or to
send more troops.
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