2,500 Fla. guardsmen preparing for deployments
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jan 4, 2010 11:05:32 EST
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Nearly 2,500 soldiers from the Florida National Guard are heading to Texas this week to train for deployments in Kuwait and Iraq.
It is the largest contingent of Florida National Guard soldiers to be deployed since World War II.
The soldiers from the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team are scattered throughout the state. For many, it’s their second or third deployment.
The troops began training at the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center near Jacksonville last year. Training included a model Iraqi village where expatriate Iraqis role-played and spoke Arabic. Guard members will spend a few weeks at Fort Hood, Texas.
Maj. Gen. Douglas Burnett, adjutant general of Florida, says about 8,000 Guard soldiers will remain in the state.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_guard_florida_deployment_010410/
Monday, January 4, 2010
CIA killed in Afghanistan was former Navy SEAL and expectant first time Dad
Expectant Dad Killed in Afghan Bombing
Stephen Majors
AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Jan. 3) - A former Navy Seal and an Ohio native whose wife is expecting the couple's first child were among seven people killed in a suicide bombing attack targeting a CIA base in southeastern Afghanistan last week.
Scott Michael Roberson, 39, was working as a security officer for the CIA when the blast on Dec. 30 rocked the remote outpost in Khost province, said his sister, Amy Messner of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
The government notified his wife Wednesday of his death, Messner said, and the CIA has allowed them to make his death public.
Before joining the CIA, Roberson had worked undercover in narcotics for the Atlanta police. He also served with United Nations security forces in Kosovo and did several tours of duty in Iraq, where he provided protection to high-risk officials.
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Expectant Dad Killed in Afghan Bombing
Stephen Majors
AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Jan. 3) - A former Navy Seal and an Ohio native whose wife is expecting the couple's first child were among seven people killed in a suicide bombing attack targeting a CIA base in southeastern Afghanistan last week.
Scott Michael Roberson, 39, was working as a security officer for the CIA when the blast on Dec. 30 rocked the remote outpost in Khost province, said his sister, Amy Messner of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
The government notified his wife Wednesday of his death, Messner said, and the CIA has allowed them to make his death public.
Before joining the CIA, Roberson had worked undercover in narcotics for the Atlanta police. He also served with United Nations security forces in Kosovo and did several tours of duty in Iraq, where he provided protection to high-risk officials.
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Expectant Dad Killed in Afghan Bombing
In love and war: marriage on the front lines
In love and war: marriage on the front lines
By Lindsay Wise - Houston Chronicle via AP
Posted : Saturday Jan 2, 2010 14:55:36 EST
BAGHDAD — You won’t find Iraq listed as a Top 10 honeymoon destination in the glossy pages of any bridal magazine, but there’s nowhere else newlyweds Miguel and Amanda Perez would rather be right now.
“I like to think about it like it’s the military sending us on a vacation,” joked Miguel, a 24-year-old sergeant from Houston. “Sand and palm trees everywhere — a nine-month honeymoon.”
The Perezes are one of six married couples who deployed to Iraq with the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, a Texas Army National Guard unit headquartered in Houston. About 3,000 soldiers from the brigade are stationed across the country, assigned to missions such as Green Zone security, detainee operations, force protection and convoys.
Both Perezes served in Iraq before. Miguel deployed from 2006-07. Amanda deployed from 2008-09.
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In love and war: marriage on the front lines
By Lindsay Wise - Houston Chronicle via AP
Posted : Saturday Jan 2, 2010 14:55:36 EST
BAGHDAD — You won’t find Iraq listed as a Top 10 honeymoon destination in the glossy pages of any bridal magazine, but there’s nowhere else newlyweds Miguel and Amanda Perez would rather be right now.
“I like to think about it like it’s the military sending us on a vacation,” joked Miguel, a 24-year-old sergeant from Houston. “Sand and palm trees everywhere — a nine-month honeymoon.”
The Perezes are one of six married couples who deployed to Iraq with the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, a Texas Army National Guard unit headquartered in Houston. About 3,000 soldiers from the brigade are stationed across the country, assigned to missions such as Green Zone security, detainee operations, force protection and convoys.
Both Perezes served in Iraq before. Miguel deployed from 2006-07. Amanda deployed from 2008-09.
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In love and war: marriage on the front lines
PBS gets in touch with emotions and a Vietnam Vet with PTSD
Over the course of six hours, PBS gets in touch with emotions
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent
No doubt there are viewers for whom a six-hour PBS miniseries about our emotions sounds like an excruciating torment itself.
THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE
On: Channel 2
Time: Monday through Wednesday at 9 p.m.
“This Emotional Life,’’ debuting tonight on WGBH (Channel 2), proves that fear to be irrational. But whether it’s worth the time in therapy to overcome, they’ll have to decide for themselves.
The three-night show is promoted as an examination of our relationship to happiness, but only the third night really focuses on that. The first two examine roadblocks to happiness such as loneliness, marital discontent, post-traumatic stress, clinical depression, and phobias, as well as new attempts to overcome them.
The title seems an obvious reference to public radio’s storytelling “This American Life.’’ “This Emotional Life’’ revolves around narratives of real people wrestling with those emotional roadblocks: a family worn down by their adopted son’s attachment disorder; a Massachusetts state senator who found the greatest release from his depression by revealing it; a Vietnam veteran who struggled with PTSD for 30 years.
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PBS gets in touch with emotions
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent
No doubt there are viewers for whom a six-hour PBS miniseries about our emotions sounds like an excruciating torment itself.
THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE
On: Channel 2
Time: Monday through Wednesday at 9 p.m.
“This Emotional Life,’’ debuting tonight on WGBH (Channel 2), proves that fear to be irrational. But whether it’s worth the time in therapy to overcome, they’ll have to decide for themselves.
The three-night show is promoted as an examination of our relationship to happiness, but only the third night really focuses on that. The first two examine roadblocks to happiness such as loneliness, marital discontent, post-traumatic stress, clinical depression, and phobias, as well as new attempts to overcome them.
The title seems an obvious reference to public radio’s storytelling “This American Life.’’ “This Emotional Life’’ revolves around narratives of real people wrestling with those emotional roadblocks: a family worn down by their adopted son’s attachment disorder; a Massachusetts state senator who found the greatest release from his depression by revealing it; a Vietnam veteran who struggled with PTSD for 30 years.
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PBS gets in touch with emotions
Officer is mourned, loss shocks Worcester police department
Officer is mourned
Loss shocks Worcester dept.
‘GREAT DAD, OFFICER, MARINE, & FRIEND'
By Scott J. Croteau TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
scroteau@telegram.com
Silent and solemn, a group of Worcester police officers stood yesterday on Reservoir Street in Holden to remember their brother officer, Mark D. Bisnette, a father and Marine who lost his life in a single-car crash Saturday.
Known as “Bizz” to his close friends, Officer Bisnette, 38, is remembered by many as a man with an infectious smile, who was proud to serve as a Marine in the Gulf War, and could carry on a conversation about anything.
“Everybody had their Bizz stories. The kid is just one of a kind. Just a great friend, always be there for you,” said Officer Thomas B. Duffy, who rushed to UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus in Worcester after hearing about his friend's crash.
“He was as loyal as they get. He would do anything for his family and friends,” Officer Duffy said.
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http://www.telegram.com/article/20100104/NEWS/1040385/1116
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