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 MartinoNovember 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 JanuaryJuly 26, 2009
Northern Virginia soldier killed in Iraq
The Department of Defense says Specialist Herberth Berrios-Campos died in a non-combat incidentJuly 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.