Blackhawk News

Cpl. Jonathan Vasquez has served tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Maj. Neil Kugler sits in a Blackhawk helicopter during a tour of duty in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

US soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, 2nd BCT, 1st Amoured Division, board a Blackhawk helicopter at a farm in Owesat, southwest of Baghdad.

Local resident Tim Deppe helps police officers shepherd an American black bear away from residents after it wandered into the Blackhawk mobile home park Monday afternoon.

Inside the cramped and hot confines of the Blackhawk helicopter, flight medics from Oregon care for two soldiers severely wounded by shrapnel from a roadside bomb.

Iraq is confident its security forces can manage alone after U.S. soldiers pull out of towns and cities this month, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Friday.

July 3 hosts Spa Blast at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs. Gates to the family event open at 5 p.m.A The festival will feature a rock climbing wall, Humvee and fire engine exhibit, a gymnastics demonstration, an RC Air Show, a performance by Miss Arkansas, music by Rock Solid Band, a flyover by the Arkansas National Guard Army Aviation 77th Aviation ...

I think I have the greatest Dad in the world. He is one of the nicest people I have ever known and he is also a true hero.

Alaska's largest military exercise of the year is set to begin today. More than 9,000 troops from all branches of the U.S. military, stationed in nine different time zones, will participate in Northern Edge 2009.

School Stuff Submitted by Carina Using on 2009-06-08.   If you were in Old Saybrook on June 2, you may have noticed something in the sky that was strangely reminiscent of some of the military movies that you may have seen.

At Camp Edwards this past weekend, current cadets had the opportunity to ride in a Blackhawk helicopter.

A welcome home ceremony is scheduled for late this afternoon for more than 100 members of the St.

Graham Smith, an All Things Considered producer, is in Afghanistan with NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and photographer David Gilkey.

The organizers of the Freedom Festival want to add a Black Hawk helicopter to the other spectacles guests can see there.

Blackhawk helicopter pilots Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jim Morrison, left, and CW2 Matthew Spawn, and crew chief Spc.

The soldiers of the 155th Brigade are leaving their lives behind to serve their country on active duty.

First-graders at Cedar Point Elementary School didn't know what a Blackhawk helicopter was, so it didn't matter to them that an AS-350 helicopter arrived at their school in Bristow instead.

US federal jury will determine whether former soldier Steven Dale Green should be executed for raping an Iraqi teenager and executing the girl and her family, court officials said yesterday.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, addresses troops during his visit to the Forward Operating Base Ramrod, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Thursday May 7, 2009.

The standoff between Somalis labeled "pirates" by the U.S. media and the U.S. Navy ended with the fatal shootings of the men who held the captain of the Maersk Alabama hostage for five days.

At most baptisms only close relatives and friends are in attendance but this is not exactly a normal 'family'. Cited by the US as major players in the international drugs trade the 'Familia Michoacana' had its christening gate-crashed by 400 police officers and two Blackhawk helicopters.