Dover Air Force Base News

By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service July 9, 2009 - The military is sending thousands of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to Afghanistan, even while a new version is being built, to protect troops against their biggest threat: improvised explosive devices.

The remains of seven service members killed supporting Operation Enduring Freedom have been returned to the United States.

In living up to the Marine Corps motto "First to Fight," Lance Cpl. Charles Seth Sharp was the first to die.

An Army carry team carries a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Chester W. Hosford of Hastings, Minn.

A sailor initially based on the Norfolk-based USS Iwo Jima died in Afghanistan. Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate, 21, of Canyon, Texas, contracted pneumonia while part of a training team in Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense says a soldier from North Carolina who was based in Germany has died from wounds sustained when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in Afghanistan.

Spc. Issac L. Johnson, 24, of Columbus was one of four soldiers killed July 6 in Konduz, Afghanistan.

The family of Capt. Mark Garner, who was among seven soldiers killed Monday in Afghanistan, painted a portrait of a man who loved his family, his country and his Army life.

The Department of Defense says a soldier from North Carolina who was based in Germany has died from wounds sustained when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in Afghanistan.

Spc. Issac L. Johnson, 24, of Columbus was one of four soldiers killed July 6 in Konduz, Afghanistan.

The remains of seven service members killed supporting Operation Enduring Freedom have been returned to the United States.

An honour guard carries the casket of Corp. Martin Joannette during a repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Trenton, Ont.

According to WKRC, a soldier from Pierce Township died in an attack in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Over the weekend, I blogged about Pvt. Aaron Fairbairn, one of two American soldiers killed in in eastern Afghanistan by a jihadi suicide bomber.

An Army detail, above, carries the flag-wrapped coffin of Pfc. Justin A. Casillas, 19, after it arrived Monday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Jodi Weigand can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5609. The parents of a teenager fatally shot early Tuesday said their son was studying to earn his high school equivalency degree and thinking about enlisting in the military.

Washington a ' Concerned over the mishandling of a Georgia soldier's body last year, the state's two U.S. senators on Thursday introduced a measure that would require the Pentagon to reevaluate the way it treats military war dead and their families back home.

An Army Corps team carried the transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Pfc.

Fresh Air from WHYY , July 7, 2009 Kate Walbert's melancholy novel A Short History of Women may be short, but it's not sweet.

Rick Sharp thinks his son - U.S. Marine and former Dalton resident Charles Seth Sharp - is looking down from heaven wondering what all the fuss is about.