NEWSTALK 860 » army http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Women Will Soon Be Allowed to Serve in Ground Combat http://ksfa860.com/women-will-soon-be-allowed-to-serve-in-ground-combat/ http://ksfa860.com/women-will-soon-be-allowed-to-serve-in-ground-combat/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:32:45 +0000 Chris Chaberski http://tsminteractive.com/?p=154264 For the first time, women in the armed forces will be moved into combat roles. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will make the official announcement Thursday.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/women-will-soon-be-allowed-to-serve-in-ground-combat/feed/ 0 Scott Olson/Getty Images Returning Soldier Surprises Family at KFC [VIDEO] http://ksfa860.com/soldier-surprises-family-at-kfc/ http://ksfa860.com/soldier-surprises-family-at-kfc/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:33:10 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=81330 We’ve all seen the heartwarming videos of soldiers stationed overseas surprising their children stateside with early returns home.

And that’s how this video of Capt. Cherissa Jackson, who had been deployed in Afghanistan, begins, with mom surprising her daughters Anita and Ashley at a Gaitherburg, Maryland Kentucky Fried Chicken. But then it gets even more touching. 

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/soldier-surprises-family-at-kfc/feed/ 0 WUSA American Al-Qaida Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Killed in Yemeni Airstrike [VIDEO] http://ksfa860.com/american-al-qaida-cleric-killed/ http://ksfa860.com/american-al-qaida-cleric-killed/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:28:17 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=50700 US officials said Friday that Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical cleric linked to al-Qaida, has been killed by an airstrike in Yemen.

Al-Awlaki, 40, was seen as especially dangerous because his internet savvy and English-fluency made it easier for him to draw recruits to attack the United States. His sermons urging such attacks were widely circulated among militants in the West.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/american-al-qaida-cleric-killed/feed/ 0 ABC News Obama Ends "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy http://ksfa860.com/obama-ends-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy-cnn/ http://ksfa860.com/obama-ends-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy-cnn/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:52:28 +0000 Andree Valentine http://ksfa860.com/?p=749

Finally, the long political struggle over the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy came to a close on Wednesday.

President Obama signed the legislation that will bring an end of the ban on openly gay men and women serving in the armed forces.

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