By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a question and answer session in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Marines that those who disagree with the government’s decision to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military will not be able to opt out of their enlistment.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 19 year-old British soldier on patrol in Afghanistan’s notorious Helmand Province was spared from almost certain death when he bent over to pick up his rosary and saw that he was standing on a landmine. Strangely enough, almost the exact same circumstance occurred during World War II to his great-grandfather.
