Afghanistan

Two units from the Wisconsin Army National Guard will deploy to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom this spring, according to a press release issued Wednesday afternoon, March 12. Sussex-based Battery A of the 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery Regiment and the...

Congressman Ron Kind, who's just back from the Middle East, says it would not serve U.S. interests to keep an extended military presence in Afghanistan. And instead of the major troop increase President Obama is considering, the La Crosse Democrat says the U.S. should equip and...

The Madison Army Reserve unit that had seven casualties in the Fort Hood massacre will not go to Afghanistan next month as scheduled. Commander Robert LaFountain says the mission is being put off indefinitely, until replacements can be found for the three members who were killed...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in Oshkosh Thursday that he'll lead a major effort to find new ways to reduce the threat from roadside bombs in Afghanistan. Those ambush weapons account for eight of every 10 U.S. casualties in that country. And the new style of all-terrain...

Fort McCoy near Sparta continues to train soldiers to serve in Afghanistan. Another 200 will arrive next week. Members of the Arkansas National Guard's 875th Engineer Battalion will leave their headquarters at Jonesboro on Tuesday. They'll spend two months training at Fort McCoy...

President Obama consoled relatives of a Fox Valley soldier whose body was returned to the U.S. Thursday. They were at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the bodies of Nikolas Mueller, 26, of Little Chute and 10 others were delivered. The soldiers were killed Monday in two...

One of 10 Americans killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan is from the Fox Valley. Army Sgt. Nicholas Mueller, 26, of Little Chute was the crew chief on a Chinook chopper. It crashed Monday after leaving a firefight with suspected drug traffickers from the Taliban. A second...

Funeral services will be held Saturday at Rhinelander High School for a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Sgt. Ryan Adams, 26, died last Friday when his vehicle was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade. Seven other members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard were injured in...

Flags at National Guard armories and other state facilities will be at half-staff today, as a fallen soldier from Peshtigo is buried. Flags will be at half-staff today at National Guard armories and other facilities throughout Wisconsin. It's in honor of Army Pvt. Steven Drees,...

The Oshkosh Corp., will get up to $12 billion to make thousands of armored vehicles which the Pentagon urgently needs in Afghanistan. Oshkosh out-bid three competitors to build the Army and Marine Corps' MRAP all-terrain vehicles. And the military needed them so badly, the company...

The family of a Peshtigo man killed in Afghanistan will return home today. Army Pvt. Steven Drees, 19, died over the weekend, after he was shot in the head last Wednesday when insurgents attacked his unit with a grenade launcher and small arms fire. It happened in the Afghan province...