Russia Asks US for Help with IEDs at Olympics Russian officials have asked the U.S. for help in detecting and dismantling improvised explosive devices at the Olympics.
Pentagon's New Role for JIEDDO Counter-IED Agency The Joint IED Defeat Organization will have its funding and personnel cut in a diminished role at the Defense Department.
Carter Awards DoD’s Improvised Explosive Device Agency Unit Award Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the Joint Meritorious Unit Award to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat...
Pentagon Identifies Sailor Killed Supporting Mosul Offensive The DoD has released the name of a decorated sailor killed in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Iraq.
1st Cav Soldiers Among 4 Americans Killed in Afghanistan The U.S. Defense Department identified the two soldiers killed by a suicide bomber at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Scholarship Fund to Honor Soldier Killed by IED in Iraq Friends have started a scholarship fund to honor Army 1st Lt. Weston Lee.
NATO Soldier Killed in Suicide Attack North of Kabul A NATO soldier was killed in a suicide attack a day after two U.S. troops in a NATO convoy were killed near Kandahar.
Pentagon Identifies Soldier Killed in Iraq from 10th Mountain Division Spc. Alexander W. Missildine, 20, died Oct. 1 as a result of injuries sustained when an IED detonated near his convoy.
Deadliest IED Back on Iraq Battlefield The roadside bomb that killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq last week was an explosively formed penetrator, a top U.S. general said.
Army Division Bars Leaders from Bothering Their Soldiers After Work Hours Maj. Gen. David Doyle, commander of the Fort Carson, Colorado-based 4th Infantry Division, issued a memo last week barring...
Marine Corps Creates Billet to Keep Dual-Military Families Together During Stressful Moves The billet, which is called the dual-military coordinator, will act as a liaison between couples and their career monitors in...
Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation The Defense Department has publicly acknowledged that during the Vietnam War era it stored Agent Orange at the Naval...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...
A Group Aims to Rebuild Tun Tavern, Birthplace of the Marines, as a Tavern and Restaurant National Park Service rangers in the historic district field questions all day from visitors. One of the most-asked is:...