Fort Bragg News

More than 200 Afghanis waited in line for several hours, enduring a harsh, cool wind and blowing sand.

Sarah Palin, who will sign books Monday at Fort Bragg, plans a stopover in Montreat today to have dinner with 91-year-old Billy Graham and his son, Franklin Graham, who issued the invitation.

MarSOC leaders have new digs. On Friday, military and civilian leaders gathered on Stone Bay in Sneads Ferry to celebrate the opening of the new Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command headquarters building.

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The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, officials said Thursday.

The morning air at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan was crisp and clear, with a chill to it, and Sgt.

Defense and Veterans Affairs officials today announced another step in their efforts to streamline the process of determining veterans' disability ratings.

The Taliban had set a trap for the tiny company of Afghan soldiers here, its handful of U.S. mentors and the American helicopters that they expected would rush in help.

Submitted by WWAY on 10 November 2009 - 6:53pm. New veterans clinic coming to Port City Congressman Mike McIntyre visited the VA clinic in Wilmington with some good news about their health care.

As Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Woolley eased the giant Chinook down into the mud-walled compound, Special Forces troops on the ground dashed to form a perimeter to protect the helicopter, a prize target for Taliban insurgents.

CAIR speaker to Muslims: OK to attack Fort Bragg >> Posted By avoth 10 hours, 54 minutes ago in Religion > A Council on American-Islamic Relations adviser and regular speaker at its events has suggested Islamic law permits Muslims to attack C-130 military transport planes carrying the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, N.C., according to a stunning ...

Nearly 90 new Green Berets will graduate, and a member of the 101st Airborne Division's Band of Brothers will be honored by the Special Forces community.

Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rouge, hits bookstores on November 17th and she's hitting the road to promote it the next day.

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NATO military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing last week.

The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday, was "incomprehensible." The "twisted logic that led to the tragedy," he reiterated, may be "too hard to comprehend." If the Bush administration suffered a systemic failure of imagination on homeland security, the Obama administration is suffering a willful failure of ...

On Monday of the previous week, in a nice neighborhood, a man of the name William Maxwell shot and killed his family and himself.

Preparing undeployables for the Afghan front. Mon November 9, 2009 11:57 AM PST This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.

Around 200 members of the 82nd Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team returned to Fort Bragg just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Sgt. Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officer on this Army post, was taking her vehicle to be serviced Thursday when the killing began.