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People with strong Minnesota ties who have died in connection with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 1. Army Pfc. Edward J. Herrgott, 20, of Shakopee, killed July 3, 2003, when a sniper shot him in the neck outside the national museum in Baghdad. 2. Army Sgt. Brian R. Hellermann, 35, formerly of Freeport, killed Aug. 6, 2003, in an ambush in Baghdad. 3. Army Staff Sgt. Dale A. Panchot, 26, of Northome, killed Nov. 17, 2003, in an ambush on his patrol near Balad.
Its steel decks shuddering from the punch of its own gunfire, the Navy warship Essex strutted insolently through San Francisco Bay the morning of Oct. 9.
...serviceman at the scene of the accidental bombing in Kuwait directed the mistaken attack and then belatedly called on the F/A-18 Hornet pilot to abort the mission, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Many details of the incident remain unclear, including...
...northern Kuwait and also go aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, the aircraft carrier in the gulf from which the Navy F/A-18 Hornet was launched to conduct the practice bombing at Kuwait's Udairi range. The investigators also are expected to interview...
...artillery. In this operation, the fast movers were two F/A-18 Hornets from the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA-112...Fort Sill was too hot last summer. One of the two F/A-18 Hornets from the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA-112...
WASHINGTON - American soldiers are poised for another phase in the strikes against Taliban and terrorist targets in Afghanistan: action on the ground, rather than just from the air.
...impression. We answer in the affirmative." Cummings was assigned to a squadron in Florida in 1994 for training on the F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter. A confidential performance evaluation the next year recommended that she lose her wings because of...
WASHINGTON - A veteran Navy pilot has been reprimanded and relieved of his command after investigators found him responsible for a March 12 accident that killed six military observers on a bombing range in Kuwait.
...Air Ground Combat Center, said Capt. Teresa Ovalle. The pilot and weapons system officer both ejected from the F/A-18 Hornet, she said. The pilot was treated at Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital and released. The weapons system officer died...