Bagram Runway Reopens After C-17 Incident — Story

IN IRAQ
Security Forces Airmen Keep Contraband Off Kirkuk

IN KUWAIT
Humvees Now Rolling From New Refurb Site

IN UZBEKISTAN
Life Support Technicians Maintain Survival Gear

FACE OF DEFENSE
Sailor Lives Through Faith — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Walk to Honor 9/11 Victims, Troops — Story

IN IRAQ
Police Detain Terror Suspects
Suicide Car Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier
Najaf Projects Supply Potable Water
43 More Schools to be Renovated
Army Assumes Authority in Diyala
Joint Ops Disrupt Terrorists
Project Focus: Electricity System
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)


IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Troop Killed in Firefight
Army Opens Healthcare Facility
Forces Stymie Attacks
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Program Recruits Native Speakers
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Chem Weapons Disposal Continues
Center Supports Recovering Troops
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine Casualty — Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1519 - Magellan's 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth.
1792 -Parisian mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI.
1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day).
1821 - Missouri is admitted as 24th U.S. state.
1846 - Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
1885 - In Baltimore, Leo Daft opens America's first commerically operated electric streetcar.
1893 - Chinese are deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act.
1911 - The Parliament Act reduces the power of the House of Lords.
1913 - The Second Balkan War ends with the Treaty of Bucharest - Bulgaria loses.
1919 - The Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine.
1921 - FDR is stricken with polio.
1945 - Japan announces its willingness to surrender to the Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.
1948 - ABC enters the world of network TV at 7 pm; Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" debuts on that same network.
1949 - The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense.
1960 - Discoverer-13 is launched into orbit; it returns the first object from space.
1961 - England applies for membership in the European Common Market.
1965 - Joe Engle takes the X-15 to 82 km.
1966 - The first lunar orbiter is launched by the U.S.; a daylight meteor, seen from Utah to Canada, is the first known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere, and leaving again.
1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, NY for the "Son of Sam" murders.
1981 - In San Clemente, the Richard Nixon Museum closes.
1988 - The U.N. estimates that Asia's population has hit one billion.
1990 - The U.S's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.

Birthdays
1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)

Passings
1945 - Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry
1963 - Estes Kefauver (Sen-TN)
1988 - Arias Arnulfo, three-time president of Panama

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Mailhes, Lawrence Scott, USN (AR); A1H crashed, Killed, body not recovered

1969
Mickelsen, William E., Jr., USN (MN); A4E crashed during carrier landing attempt, Killed, body not recovered

1970
Crowley, John E., US Army (NY); passenger on UH1H that crashed, remains ID'd April, 2000

1971
Bates, Paul J., Jr., US Army (AZ); O1G crashed, Killed, body not recovered
Dolan, Thomas A., US Army (MD); O1G crashed, Killed, body not recovered

1972
Sansone, James J., USN (MA); fell overboard, Killed, body not recovered