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Heat therapy is applied by Sgt. Rupert DeFreitas to PFC James H. Suitor of 15th Aviation Company, 1st Cavalry Division at the 121st Evacuation Hospital. The hospital receives and treats patients from hospitals and dispensaries throughout Korea.

From the archives: 121st is equal of any big-city hospital

The sound of helicopter blades is often the only warning to medics of the 121st Evacuation Hospital that an emergency case is coming.

Julie MacKnyght looks at framed photos of an exhibition, surrounded by a professor and uniformed service members.

Retired Army officer honors her great-grandfather, UN troops at key Korean battlefield

Julie MacKnyght, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, toured Chipyong-ni, where U.S. and French troops under the United Nations Command held off waves of Chinese attacks in 1951.

Mr. Ignatius in 1969, inspecting printing facilities in the Washington Post building on 15th Street NW. MUST CREDIT: The Washington Post

Paul Ignatius, Navy secretary at height of Vietnam War, dies at 104

His son David Ignatius, a Washington Post journalist and novelist, confirmed the death but did not cite a specific cause.

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A squad of Iraqi soldiers clears a building during an exercise at the Besmaya Training Center. Housed at a former Republican Guard complex, the center includes 26 weapons ranges, M1A1 tank training and a bomb disposal school.

Looming US exit to complicate Iraqi training

In many ways, this collection of dusty ranges and well-tended barracks south of Baghdad represents the culmination of the U.S. military’s years-long effort to train the Iraqi army.

Hed: Training with explosives, 2009

Besmaya Training Center, Iraq, Dec. 17, 2009: Mundir Mohammed, a bomb disposal specialist from the 11th Iraqi Army Division, smiles from within an armored suit during training at the Besmaya bomb disposal school, which includes Iraq's only facility to repair damaged bomb-disposal robots. Mohammed says his mother wishes he had a different job.

By the end of 2009, roughly 75 percent of Iraqi units have been through training here, much of which is now led by a cadre of 800 Iraqi soldiers. Specialized instruction includes an M1A1 tank course and a bomb disposal school. As the U.S. military contemplates it's exit from Iraq in 2010, some Iraqis are not convinced they can maintain the same level of training.

Read the full story on the training center and see additional images here.
https://www.stripes.com/news/2010-01-02/looming-us-exit-to-complicate-iraqi-training-1992855.html

META TAGS: Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Wars on Terror; training;

From the archives: A bomb disposal specialist during training in Iraq, 2009

In this Stars and Stripes photo, a bomb disposal specialist smiles from within an armored suit during training at the Besmaya bomb disposal school in Iraq, Dec. 17, 2009.

Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum in Pennsylvania to unveil newly restored Marine One replica

The Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum in Horsham, Penn., will unveil at the museum its painstakingly restored version of the first helicopter used to fly a president.

A large construction crane sits on a barge idling in water next to the USS Arizona Memorial, with a dock and the horizon in the background.

With restoration complete, USS Arizona Memorial ready again for visitors

Regular shuttle boat service to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor has resumed after several months of preservation work that curtailed access for visitors.

A black-and-white, 1890s-era image of soldiers with rifles standing in a line next to a trench being used as a common grave.

Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers can keep their Medals of Honor

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video posted to social media that 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their awards after his predecessor ordered a review last year.

Cape May Maritime Museum brings 73-year-old Coast Guard lifeboat back to life

The Coast Guard’s Motor Lifeboat CG-36538 became restored after more than eight years of hard work by dozens of volunteers from the Cape May Maritime Museum in New Jersey.

A black-and-white, 1940s-era image of a military officer, seen from the chest up, posing in dress uniform and hat.

DOD agency identifies missing remains of Medal of Honor recipient killed in 1945

To mark National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Defense Department announced it has identified the missing remains of Capt. Willibald C. Bianchi, a Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in the Philippines in 1945 while a prisoner of war.

Just released sick and wounded prisoners of war are greeted by by Gen. Mark W. Clark, Far East commander, Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, 8th Army commander, and other high-raking U.N. officers.

From the Archives: Reds pushed marchers off cliff, Yank says

A 45-year-old repatriate, now recuperating at Tokyo’s 8167th Army Hospital, told newsmen that Red guards at times used rifle butts to push faltering marchers from a cliff during a 13-day trek to a prison camp in Korea.

Smoke, circled in red, rises from a pile of rubble at a consruction site.

Workers find smoking grenade from World War II at Okinawa construction site

A grenade found in the Teruya district of Itoman city sparked and caused a small explosion, according to the Okinawa Prefecture Crisis Management Division.

A Korean War veteran speaks with a South Korean marine at a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of Operation Chromite at Incheon, South Korea, Sept. 15, 2025.

Korean War vets recall ‘bold operation’ at Incheon 75 years after pivotal landing

More than 100 Korean War veterans were honored on the 75th anniversary of Operation Chromite, the daring amphibious assault that turned the tide for South Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command.

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