The average age for an Army Reserve recruit is about 23 years old. “Everybody in the world thinks I am a total nutcase. I just want to support our troops. I love all of them,” said Army Sgt. Sandra Coast.

His skill with a camera worked magic for Robert Ford in his long career as a Defense Department photographer. Now if only he could’ve gotten Bob Gates to smile.

“It was really hard. He’s 19; he’s my baby,” said Saralee Trimble, whose son Army Pfc. Kevin Trimble lost both of his legs and his left arm just four months into his deployment in Afghanistan. She then thought of her other children. Four of her five children are in the service: one in the Air Force, two in the Army and one in the Marine Corps Reserve.

The military has picked a Special Ops pilot to investigate the raid by Special Ops pilots that has provoked a standoff with Pakistan.

Retired Gen John Abizaid has been named to head a panel reviewing reports of missing body parts at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, but his mandate to expose past wrongdoing was unclear.
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The family of a slain Marine feels betrayed by the handling of his remains at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, and now an investigation of the scandal is on hold.

Retired Army Capt. Anthony Odierno, now a front-office executive for the New York Yankees, and his father, Gen. Ray Odierno, who once pitched against the Yankees, received awards over the weekend from the National Italian American Foundation.

When an Army reservist challenged his two daughters to help the children of Afghanistan, he never imagined it would turn into this.

Adm. Mike Mullen passed the baton as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week to Army Gen. Martin Dempsey along with the task of winding down two wars and presiding over a new era of defense budget cuts.

Roy Brown served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam – and he’s back with the Screaming Eagles again, this time in Afghanistan as his military career draws to a close 41 years later.