... out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-plus years ago, the U.S. Army general was David H. Petraeus, and some of those Iraqi officials at the time were busy embezzling more than $1 billion allotted ...

... Today's Birthdays: Business executive Ross Perot is 78. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Army General John Shalikashvili, is 72. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is 70. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The ...

... swagger sometimes grates on American officers. But Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond sees it as a hopeful sign the Iraqi army generals and soldiers alike has reached a new level of self-confidence, pointing the way toward truly independent Iraqi forces ...

... Pat Green is 36. Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 35. Thought for Today: "In war, you win or lose, live or die and the difference is just an eyelash." Douglas MacArthur, Army general (born 1880, died this date in 1964).

... Museum of American History reopened after a two-year, $85 million renovation. Former Secretary of State and retired Army General Colin Powell read President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to a crowd of at least 200 people on the museum ...

... killed 20 people in the Midwest and Southeast, including eight students at Enterprise High School in Alabama. The Army general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command after disclosures about dilapidated buildings and ...

... Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a breakfast with defense writers. The four-star Army general was questioned about the latest estimates of damage done in the four-day operation which targeted the Iraqi leader ...

... his command two months early next year. "When a soldier's journey is over, it's over," Clark, a four-star Army general who is supreme allied commander in Europe, said today. He described the action as a routine staff change. "I am ...

... If a roster were compiled of graduates of this small school, there would be found the names of Navy commanders, Army generals, college presidents, research scientists, doctors of medicine and law, as well as musicians, missionaries, ministers ...

... focus not so much on whether the military is "ready," as on what it should be ready for. Wesley Clark, the retired Army general who was NATO commander during the 1999 air war over Kosovo, has put it this way: Should we keep our military at home ...