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Jacob and Noel Baker could have picked up information on any number of topics Wednesday, but mostly, they wanted to find anything having to do with the arrival of their baby. "That's number one on the list," said Noel Baker, who is due in August.
Jacob Baker, a Fort Carson soldier, is getting ready to deploy soon with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and the Bakers were gathering information at a predeployment fair, held at the Doubletree Hotel, 1775 E. Cheyenne Mountain Blvd...
Rachel cried. But not for her father. At 10 months old, she was too young to understand that her father, Army Staff Sgt. Joseph James, is an amputee. He lost both legs after his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Sadr City neighborhood of eastern Baghdad two months ago...
The life of Sgt. 1st Class L. David Ezell can be summarized by his last moment on Earth. Unafraid, the man nicknamed "Easy" by his Army comrades waded into a pile of garbage to disarm a bomb April 30 in a Baghdad neighborhood...
A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier based at Fort Carson was killed Sunday near Najaf, Iraq, according to the U.S. Department of Defense...
No bugle blew taps for Fort Carson Sgt. Chad Barrett at his service in February in Mosul, Iraq. Days earlier, the auditorium at Forward Operating Base Marez had been packed with hundreds of mourners, including the highest-ranking generals in Iraq, who came to honor five men killed by a bomb..
Maj. Mark Rosenberg knew what to do after being given a new group of soldiers and assigned a tough job. The 12-year Army veteran didn't fall back on his extensive training in how to lead troops in combat...
Spc. Ronald "Ronnie" Tucker's baby face belied the man he had become since joining the Army. The 21-year-old soldier had fallen in love with a girl in Texas where he was stationed, embraced an Army career and headed to war in Iraq...
Fort Carson soldiers working on the wall in eastern Baghdad know they'll be attacked every day. The job, now half-done, would separate the southwest quarter of Sadr City from the rest of the Shiite enclave...
Halfway through a 15-month tour in northern Iraq, a Fort Carson helicopter unit is waiting out frequent sandstorms in Kirkuk that have grounded reconnaissance and attack missions...
Ambushed Fort Carson soldiers battled Shiite insurgents Tuesday in Baghdad before ending the four-hour firefight by calling in fire from a seldom-used mobile rocket launcher. Six soldiers were wounded...
Retired Air Force Master Sgt. Scott Simpson held the bugle high and tried to fight back tears as he blew taps for his son. Sgt. Christopher C. Simpson, 23, and Staff Sgt. Michael D. Elledge, 41, were honored with a memorial service at Fort Carson...
The troops in the rear with the gear came home Tuesday after 15 months in Iraq. The 68th Combat Support Battalion, which went to Iraq with a core group of only 78 men and women, wound up making sure all U.S. soldiers from Baghdad south had everything from diesel and bullets to beans and water....
A soldier from Colorado Springs died Friday in Iraq, the Department of Defense said Monday. Spc. Benjamin K. Brosh, 22, died after his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Paliwoda, Iraq. He is survived by his father, James Brosh of Biloxi, Miss., and his mother, Barbara Brosh of Colorado Springs. No family members could be reached for comment Monday...
A 32-year-old Fort Carson officer was killed Tuesday in an explosion in Baghdad, the ninth death since his brigade went to Iraq in November on its third deployment. Maj. Mark E. Rosenberg died of wounds suffered when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday ...
Fort Carson soldiers bore the brunt of a surge of Shiite violence in Baghdad over the past week and were instrumental in restoring an uneasy calm to the city, commanders said today. In six days of fighting in and around Sadr City, 36 soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team were wounded...
The commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, said Thursday "mistakes" were made in sending injured Fort Carson soldiers to Iraq. Hammond, who now oversees all troops in Baghdad, gave an upbeat report on war progress in a satellite news conference, but admitted problems with ordering soldiers to war who had been deemed medically unfit to fight...
The smoothies are in the mail - to Iraq. The Smoothie King store in Briargate on Wednesday shipped 132 pounds of ready-to-slurp fruity concoctions to Fort Carson troops at Camp Taji...
Two Fort Carson soldiers died when a bomb detonated near their Humvee in Baghdad, the Pentagon announced Wednesday...
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Fort Carson mourned a man at a memorial service Thursday "who always put himself last." Staff Sgt. Chad A. Barrett of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division died Feb. 2 in Mosul, Iraq ...
BALAD, Iraq - Flying in slow circles four miles above Baghdad in the back of a four-engine C-130, the Air Force Academy's Capt. Linda Thorstenson waits for a call. It could be from a convoy under attack, or just someone checking a radio...
BAGHDAD - One mistake and the suicide bombers and assassins win. That simple reality drove the soldiers of a Fort Carson battalion guarding the Green Zone ...
BAGHDAD - Soldiers from a Fort Carson artillery battalion rejoiced Thursday in doing what's become an extremely rare activity for them in Iraq. They fired their artillery...
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SPC. OMAR CANCEL-RIOS WISHED HE WAS DEAD.
“It was the worst pain I’ve ever known,” the father of three said... 
Command Sgt. Maj. David Allard used to break down Army troops to prepare them for the rigors of the infantry. But after suffering a brain injury in Iraq, he got a new assignment: helping rebuild wounded soldiers so they could return to duty.
Nearly 8,000 soldiers have been assigned to the 32 new units across the country. 
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