http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/0,,GH_Iraq,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS Military Iraq News Center Friday, 16 May 2008 10:07:23 AM http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167456,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan were sent anyway, according to DoD records. The numbers of non-deployable Soldiers are based on health assessment forms filled out by medical personnel. 2008-05-14 http://capwiz.com/military/issues/alert/?alertid=11252751&type=CO&ESRC=iraq.RSS 2008-05-14 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167798,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS A contractor in Iraq accused of aggravated assault will face a U.S. military court-martial, the first such case under an amendment to rules covering civilians with U.S. forces in combat zones, officials said Monday. 2008-05-13 http://www.military.com/news/article/pentagon-plays-down-iran-warplanning.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS 2008-05-01 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,166703,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS A complaint that soldiers have had to skip some meals at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq has prompted the commander to concede a change in food distribution may have had some "growing pains." 2008-04-29 http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,166697,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS ". . . unfortunately, as the hearings showed, progress toward a U.S. exit is very slow indeed." 2008-04-29 http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,164692,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS A San Diego-based Marine major was reunited on Saturday with one of his closest war buddies -- a 2-year-old dog named Nubs. 2008-04-01 http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,164740,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS A U.S. Marine faces a court martial March 27 in the long-awaited first trial of Marines involved in the killing of 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha three years ago. 2008-04-01 http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,164549,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS As the war in Iraq continues into its sixth year, the Army has been seeing captains leaving the service in large numbers -- at a time when it says it needs thousands more. 2008-03-26 http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,164742,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS At least 55 people have died in two days of fighting between Shiite militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, officials say. Some 300 people were reported wounded in the clashes, which present the gravest challenge to the Iraqi government in months. 2008-03-26