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For the first time since 9/11, the U.S. military is feeling a different sort of pressure at home: a money crunch. Despite ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress has been slow to approve defense funds, even for the Army and Marines, which have borne the brunt of the fighting...
Critics say the Army could save money by ditching expensive projects like the high-tech $160 billion Future Combat Systems, a battlefield command-and-control program. The Army and Marines are making cuts but are also set to fight for more funds. Defense officials say the two services are considering...
Around midnight on April 1, a small group of Black Hawk helicopters and fearsome AC-130 gunships came in low over Nasiriyah's dark skyline. Army Rangers and Marines moved quietly into place, encircling the hospital's walls. Other Marines rolled into Nasiriyah in tanks and personnel carriers in a...
The commandos, made up of U.S. Army Rangers, Navy SEALS, Marines and Air Force combat controllers, went hard into Saddam Hussein General Hospital. Armed with machine guns, they kicked down doors even as a hospital administrator tried to give them a master key, the doctors would later tell television reporters...
On the perimeter the Rangers and Marines took fire, and returned it. But inside Saddam General, there was no resistance--and no one to resist. There were about 200 patients and a skeleton staff, but no soldiers, no militia. The commandos did not know that, their officers would later say...