Hasan investigation [www.clipsyndicate.com | WLUK FOX 11 Green Bay]
It's a scene being played out over and over in cities and towns across the county since the Iraq war began: Young men and women heading from the home front to the battlefield. Alpha Company 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion was mobilized at a ceremony at Fort Meade, Maryland on Monday morning. [www.clipsyndicate.com | FOX WTTG Washington, DC]
170 Hoosier soldiers are back in the state after spending a year in Iraq. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WISH CBS 8 Indianapolis]
Troops return from Iraq. 138th Quartermaster [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNDY 23 Indianapolis]
Cpl. John Thompson came home on holiday leave from Iraq to see his baby son for the first time. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KMBC ABC 9 Kansas City MO]
BOSTON - Brigham and Women's Hospital, which performed the second face transplant in the U.S. in April, has received a $3.4 million contract from the Pentagon to perform the surgery on troops severely disfigured in Iraq and Afghanistan. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WFXT FOX 25 Boston, MA]
While this can be a tough week for many military families separated during the holidays... A lucky few... are deployed with their family. Meet married couple... Adam and Jennifer Greff...as we "skype with a soldier." They met in Jamestown at college... (Adam and Jennifer Greff) "It was your second year? His sophomore year my freshman year, and we just met and he left for Iraq for a year and when he got back we started dating and a year later we got engaged and married" She joined the national guard while he was deployed in Iraq... and during basic training, they got to know each other the old fashioned way... through letters. (Adam Greff) "you get to know each other a lot without ever talking or seeing each other, you get a lot of family information and things like that just because you have letters." Adam and Jennifer have now been married a little more than 2 years... And when she found out her unit was deploying to Kosovo... Adam volunteered to deploy as well. "I wouldn't have it any other way than to volunteer to be with her, than to be away from her, I mean, no other way than that." (Jennifer Greff) "He works with the Provost Marshal, which is cops basically, and I'm more like customer service, when any soldiers need paperwork or military id's fixed, that's what we do in our office." While so many soldiers are separated from their spouses during the holidays... The Greffs can't seem to get enough of each other. "We get up in the morning, go for a run, have breakfast, have lunch, and then supper, so we're together almost all the time." But they still miss home... Adam and Jennifer say they use skype almost every night to call their parents back home. Here's their soldier shout-out. "I'd like to wish my parents and friends back in Minnesota a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, love you guys, and I'd like to wish my family and friends in North Dakota and also my dog, happy New Year and a Merry Christmas." The Greffs plan to open presents together on Christmas Day... They ordered them online... and had them
A Macomb Township soldier injured in Iraq got a new, custom built home for Christmas as a gift. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WJBK FOX 2 Detroit, MI]
A wounded soldier comes home from Iraq to Houston, just in time for Christmas. It's not the homecoming he expected! His family left their apartment in Northeast Houston for only one hour and thieves took or destroyed everything they own. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRIV FOX 7 Houston, TX]
George Stanley continues to discuss what it's like to have a loved one overseas during the holidays [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTMJ Milwaukee, WI]
An Algoma resident and Vietnam War era vet is collecting fishing gear for troops overseas. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WLUK FOX 11 Green Bay]
Just a few months before the 133rd Engineer Combat Battalion was due to ship out to Iraq, members learned their deployment has been canceled. News 8's Keith Baldi reports. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WMTW ABC 8 Portland ME]
Mayor Tom Barrett and employees at City Hall turned it into the North Pole for soldiers in the Middle East. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTMJ Milwaukee, WI]
He lost his life to injuries suffered in the war in Iraq. Now a young marine from Waterbury is being remembered for all he accomplished in his all-too-short life. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTNH ABC 8 New Haven]
Female veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan find their combat experience discounted by everyone from Veterans Affairs' medical providers to the barkeep down the block. (Dec. 15) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
The sub-zero wind chills are forcing kids to spend their recess time in the classroom. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WLUK FOX 11 Green Bay]
A local marine, who paid a painful price for freedom, is coming home. Marine Staff Sergeant John Stanz has come a long way from the front lines. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WIVB CBS 4 Buffalo]
women combat - 530pm [www.clipsyndicate.com | WAVY NBC 10 Norfolk]
WAVY News 10 Online - 1:30 p.m. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WAVY NBC 10 Norfolk]
n an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired tonight, the president claimed progress on economic and international fronts. Obama says the only thing that stands in the way of giving himself a better grade is the fact that some elements of his agenda — health care reform and putting more Americans to work — remain undone. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNAC FOX 64 Providence]
We're cooking Lobster cocktail in a creamy avocado sauce with Cowesett Inn. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNAC FOX 64 Providence]
WAVY News 10 Online - 10 a.m. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WAVY NBC 10 Norfolk]
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