Staff Sgt. Paul Schmich received a Purple Heart on Jan. 15, nearly 14 years after he was wounded in Afghanistan, according to a community announcement. Schmich was injured in an improvised explosive ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Staff Sgt. Paul Schmich received a Purple Heart Jan. 15, 2026, nearly 14 years after being wounded in an improvised explosive device attack in Afghanistan — a battlefield ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Army soldiers walk past a burning M-ATV armored vehicle after it struck an improvised explosive device near Combat Outpost ...

A Northrop Grumman radar that can track individuals on foot over a wide area is to be deployed operationally by U.S. forces in Afghanistan to aid the fight against improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

An Afghanistan veteran has become the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Hari Budha Magar, from Canterbury Kent, lost both of his legs from ...

The U.S. military is still trying to get Afghans to listen to its weather reports, warnings of suspected IED locations, and propaganda – that’s why it’s buying another 21,000 hand-cranked radios to ...