IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1001-10 October 31, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Diego A. Solorzanovaldovinos, 24, of Huntington Park, Calif., died Oct. 29 in Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit on Oct. 27 with [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 990-10 October 27, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. 1st Class Phillip C. Tanner, 43, of Sheridan, Wyo., died Oct. 26 at Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, of injuries sustained in a non-combat incident. He was [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 976-10 October 25, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. 1st Class Charles M. Sadell, 34, of Columbia, Mo., died Oct. 24 at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., of wounds suffered Oct. 5 at Arif [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 974-10 October 25, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Steven L. Dupont, 20, of Lafayette, La., died Oct. 24 at Rangrizan, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 973-10 October 25, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Ronnie J. Pallares, 19, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., died Oct. 23 in Andar district, Ghazni, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an [...]

DOD Identifies Marine Casualty Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:39:00 -0500 IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 997-10 October 29, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Lance Cpl. Terry E. Honeycutt Jr., 19, of Waldorf, Md., died Oct. 27 from wounds received Oct. [...]

Looking to learn more about Afghanistan, are you? Well, I’m running out the door to interview an intelligence contractor. But you’ll want to check out Josh Foust’s forthcoming book excerpting the best of his insightful Registan writing. And you can’t miss Jeremy Scahill’s exceptional Nation dispatch about how fighting the Taliban into negotiations can end [...]

I don’t really have much in the way of strong feelings about Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, the outgoing commander of Regional Command South in Afghanistan. (Unlike some Marine officers I know.) But he didn’t really acquit himself well in today’s Pentagon briefing. “As I come to the end of my year here, that there’s always [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 994-10 October 28, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Michael D. Kirspel Jr., 23, of Hopatcong, N.J., died Oct. 27 near the village of Khwaja Kinti (approximately 25 km south of Ghormach), Afghanistan, of wounds [...]

Here’s how Crain’s Bill Shea describes Charlie LeDuff, who resigned yesterday from the Detroit News: LeDuff — who is sometimes a polarizing figure among readers — always has struck me of a blend of George Plimpton’s curiosity with Jimmy Breslin’s nose for interesting characters others ignore, Hemingway’s succinctness and Dennis Hopper’s frenzied photojournalist character from [...]