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Coast vet injured in Iraq says he felt abandoned, angry over VA’s response to his treatment “I needed a quality of life back. I’m only 42.
Gunmen robbed four commercial ships anchored near the southern oil hub of Basra in a rare attack off the Iraqi coast, the U.S. Navy said Sunday. Two men armed with AK-47 rifles boarded the ...
The Gulf Coast recovery: Iraq, revisited? The president says the U.S. will "do what it takes" to get the job done. Where have we heard that before? By T.g. Published September 16, 2005 1:36PM (EDT) -- ...
A $100-million bonanza of crude oil sits in a tanker off the coast of Galveston, Texas, but moving it to shore has become a knotty foreign policy problem.
NEW ORLEANS–Fayetteville native Michael McPhearson wasn’t in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina, but the Gulf War veteran–who now has a son serving in Iraq–says he feels the same ...
A Coast Guard cutter based on Seattle's waterfront is for the first time during the Iraq war being deployed to serve in the Persian Gulf. The 378-foot-long Midgett, a high-endurance cutter that is ...
BASRA, Iraq, June 29 (Reuters) ... part of what he hopes will become a mangrove forest that protects the coast, shelters vulnerable species and battles climate change. ...
As the House prepares to vote on the Iraq supplemental budget later this week, it appears that the sweeteners for farm-state and Gulf Coast lawmakers have had little effect so far in winning over ...
Iraq launched a $17 billion project on Saturday to link a major commodities port on its southern coast by rail and roads to the border with Turkey, in a move designed to transform the country's ...
BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now ...
But, Taylor gave even more after he retired, when his son, Keith, followed in his footsteps and joined the Navy, serving in Iraq. "On January 29, 2005, we got the call," Taylor said.
An Iraqi vessel approaches the Sentinel-class U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutter USCGC Robert Goldman (WPC 1142) during a trilateral exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Oct. 2, 2023. (Courtesy photo) ...