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onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, deployed in
the Arabian Sea Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001. U.S. Weapons of War • Special forces Weapons Positions How-to enter an area of operations • Fighter aircraft Closeup: AC-130 Gunship • Bombers • Cruise missiles • Carriers • Helicopters • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles • U.S. military leaders Graphics: • Latest military action • Biological & Chemical warfare • Helicopter warfare • Potential U.S. partners • Military bases in the Middle East • American troops mobilize • Levels of mobilization |
Town grieves for two Army Rangers
FORT BENNING, Ga. ó Kelli Bass got choked up Monday when she thought about the hazards her Army Ranger buddies may be facing in Afghanistan.
First fatality of U.S. military operation buried
ARLINGTON, Va. – Facing the Pentagon's charred, punctured face, mourners buried the first U.S. military man killed in the campaign against international terror.
War details remain secret for years
WASHINGTON ó A decade later, Americans still don't know how far special operations forces went inside Iraq during the Gulf War. Some parts of the fighting in Kosovo and Vietnam ó even Korea ó remain sketchy.
Monday, Oct. 22
• U.S. warplanes shift attention to Taliban front lines
Sunday, Oct. 21
• Bin Laden faces U.S. deadly force order
Saturday, Oct. 20
• Troops complete ground assault
• Pentagon: Two killed in Pakistan crash
Friday, Oct. 19
• Q&A: Special operations forces
• Afghan Taliban defiant of U.S. ground forces
• U.S. planes drop 53,000 food packets
• Rumsfeld praises bomber crews
• USS Roosevelt ready to support ground troops
Thursday, Oct. 18
• U.S. radio tells Taliban they face 'demise'
• U.S. now using unmanned spy plane with missiles
• Special operations troops now aboard carrier
Tuesday, Oct. 16
• U.S. gave armor-piercing sniper rifles to bin Laden
• Front lines won't be safe for Taliban fighters, Rumsfeld says
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