November 19, 2009

Portion of road named for Nelson Co. Marine killed in Iraq

Robert and Sybil Martino, of Nellysford, submitted the request to name a portion of Va. 151 near Monacan Drive after their son, Maj. Michael Martino

November 05, 2009

Lynchburg National Guard unit called to duty for Iraq

1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Brigade Combat Team will leave for Iraq in January

July 26, 2009

Northern Virginia soldier killed in Iraq

The Department of Defense says Specialist Herberth Berrios-Campos died in a non-combat incident

July 04, 2009

University of Richmond professor helps train mental-health workers in Iraq

Kristen P. Lindgren recently spent eight intensive days training mental-health workers in the Kurdish region of Iraq


May 25, 2009

Sen. Mark Warner in Iraq on Memorial Day

The former Governor met with Virginia service members, and shared a meal with them at Camp Victory near Baghdad.

Community remembers Patrick County soldier killed in Iraq

Lt. Leevi Barnard was killed in an IED attack


May 08, 2009

Virginia soldier dies after accident in Iraq

The Department of Defense says Specialist Shawn Sykes, from Portsmouth, died Thursday a Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.


March 30, 2009

JJ’s Playground dedicated in memory of Lynchburg soldier

JJ’s Playground is named in honor of Pfc. Jason Scheuerman, a Lynchburg man who was serving in Iraq in 2005 when he took his own life


March 19, 2009

Salem soldier home from Iraq

Scott Aldridge was greeted by his two little girls and his wife Sharon at Roanoke Regional Airport Thursday afternoon.


March 06, 2009

Soldier from Chesterfied killed in Iraq

The Dept. of Defense says Sgt. Jeffrey Reed of Chesterfield was killed on March 2 in Iraq after a grenade hit the vehicle he was in.


March 04, 2009

Sen. Jim Webb talks foreign policy on MSNBC

Senator Webb joined Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon to talk about American foreign policy with respect to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Russia and the Middle East

Wartime brain injures to U.S. forces could reach 360,000

The estimate of the number injured - the vast majority of them suffering concussions - represents 20 percent of the roughly 1.8 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan


February 22, 2009

Local soldier returns home to wife

A soldier from Dublin comes home from Iraq to see his wife


December 18, 2008

General Petraeus gives first look at U.S. troop pullout from Iraq

The top U.S. general in Iraq want to move more cautiously than the 16-month timetable President-elect Barack Obama pledged during the campaign


November 07, 2008

Martinsville soldier killed in Iraq to be laid to rest today

Pfc. Shane Coleman’s funeral will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Freedom Baptist Church in Martinsville.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement