Valkyrie – the Marines’ life-saving blood program

The Marines’ 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines is on the leading edge of implementing the first whole blood resuscitation program into a conventional war-fighting unit. The program is called “Valkyrie.” The Special Operations community has been utilizing whole blood resuscitation for battlefield casualties for some time. Now it is the Marines’ turn to take advantage of […]

U.S. coalition hands over Camp Taji to Iraqi Security Forces

The U.S.-led international coalition formally withdrew from Iraq’s Taji military base on Sunday. The coalition handed the base over to Iraqi security forces, coalition and local news reported. The base, 17 miles north of Baghdad, had been the site of frequent rocket attacks, in recent months, by Iran-backed militias targeting U.S.-led troops. Despite the long-term […]

The underground fate of Saddam Hussein’s air force

After the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 looking for weapons of mass destruction, American troops found a lot of bizarre things: toilets and guns made of gold, a Koran written in blood, and Saddam’s romance novel. Although they didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction, they did manage to find some weapons. Specifically, they […]