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Oregon Guard`s 41st Brigade Combat Team Mobilizes for Iraq Deployment

The 41st will conduct four mobilization ceremonies the first week in May in preparation for training at Camp Stewart, Georgia, then deployment to Iraq.

(TIGARD, Ore.) - The ceremonies in Portland, Bend, Eugene, and Medford will give local communities an opportunity to wish the soldiers well as they depart on what is the largest deployment of the Oregon National Guard since World War II.

Nearly 2,700 soldiers from Oregon and five companies of soldiers totaling 700 personnel from Delaware, Massachusetts, Nebraska and New Mexico will spend about two months training followed by ten months in Iraq.

PTSD: Is it a Psychosis?

This article is Dr. Leveque's response to the recent developments in Pennsylvania regarding Sgt. Nicholas Horner, who is accused of Murdering two people.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - PTSD is NOT a single specific entity. As a Combat Infantryman I saw several different versions. “Combat fatigue” doesn’t cover it.

As Infantrymen we were almost always exhausted. “Shellshock” is most likely concussion replaced now by “traumatic brain injury” (TBI).

Papal Visit Bittersweet for Gaza Catholics

Some 2,000 Palestinian Christians live in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming trip to the Holy Land will be bittersweet for Gaza's tiny Catholic community, angry the pontiff is not also visiting their violence-wracked impoverished coastal strip.

(GAZA CITY (AFP)) - Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming trip to the Holy Land will be bittersweet for Gaza's tiny Catholic community, angry the pontiff is not also visiting their violence-wracked impoverished coastal strip.

The Faces of Four Americans Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

Too many members of the military die without any fanfare whatsoever.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Four American soldiers have died over the course of the last eight days in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the first time, Salem-News.com was able to publish photos of all of the soldiers, adding a face to a name of those lost at war.

The soldiers all had active MySpace pages and anyone who would take the time to look at their pages, would see the full lives that each had.

Iraq Vet in Pennsylvania Murders Was Radically Changed by War and PTSD

PTSD sufferers can't always leave the war behind.

(ALTOONA, Penn.) - Tragedy and war-inspired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can meet like a head on crash when the nation's care providers at the Veterans Administration, notorious for lies and deceit, deny our combat veterans the care they need.

This story of Army Sergeant Nicholas Horner's alleged deadly, senseless shootings in Altoona, Pennsylvania April 6th, is possibly the most tragic I have ever reported, and if it isn't, it is among the very worst.

Wounded Veterans: The Severe Catastrophe is Here

As of October 2006, 600 thousand Iraq Vets sought VA medical care, according to President Obama in his speech of April 9, 500 thousand Veterans requests have been denied.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - If the present Iraq/Afghanistan war isn’t the dirtiest, awfulist for American soldiers, marines, etc. (they do most of the fighting, killing and dying (please don’t write)) I don’t know what was.

We went into this with totally false assumptions about WMD’s which was most likely a hand job from the start.

Oregon Military Hall of Fame Annual Induction Ceremony

All Oregon ex-POWs; 7 Individuals to Be Inducted - Presenters include Governor Vic Atiyeh, Doug LaMear, and Jim Willis, ODVA.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - On Saturday, April 18, the Oregon Military Hall of Fame will hold its 3rd annual induction ceremony and luncheon at 12:00 p.m. at the Red Lion Hotel on the River-Jantzen Beach.

Seven individuals and all ex-POWs from the State of Oregon are slated to be inducted; over 650 people will be in attendance, including 75 ex-POWs and 21 ex-POW representatives.

One of History`s Toughest Marines, Smedley Butler, was Anti-War (VIDEO)

"War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler, the two-time Medal of Honor winner denounced the military industrial complex.

(SALEM, Ore.) - When you are a Marine, you learn about specific individuals who shaped the Corps and formed the basis for what it is today. Names like "Red Mike" Edson, "Chesty" Puller and Major General Smedley Butler, who was awarded the Medals of Honor twice, stand out in the Corp's history.

Major General Butler was a Marine's Marine, in the sense that he cared about the right things. His perspective was shaped by an adherence to honesty that few know or live by, and at the time of his death, no Marine had been decorated more in U.S. history.

Chop Shop Economics and Stealth Zionism

President Obama, whose economic background is all Chicago School, brought the Friedmanites including National Economic Council Director Larry Summers back into government.

(BOSTON, Mass.) - Causing $64 trillion of liquidity to vanish from the world financial system and then manipulating the US government to reward the perpetrators with bailout money requires the presence of the “right people” in government, academia, and finance industries.

In The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein argues that Milton Friedman or Chicago School influenced policy makers routinely used catastrophes to facilitate rewriting of national economic rules to benefit a select subset of the world’s hyperwealthy.

Another $77.1 Billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

NPP releases local cost of war breakdowns and launches cost of Afghanistan war.

(NORTHAMPTON, Mass.) - As Congress considers President Obama's $83.4 billion supplemental request for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009, $77.1 billion of which is dedicated to Iraq and Afghanistan war funding, National Priorities Project offers a state-level tradeoff and breakdowns of U.S. war spending costs by state, congressional district, county and town.

NPP's trade-offs page offers similar breakdowns for approved totals to date and the pending supplemental, showing what the equivalent sums could buy in healthcare, education and renewable energy services.