afghanistan

Group Urges Leniency For Marines Seen Urinating On Enemy Combatants

It’s the picture that’s sparking controversy around the world. Several Marines were caught on tape urinating on the bodies of dead enemy combatants.

2012/01/16

Website For Group That Defends Marines Accused Of Urinating On Dead Enemies

2012/01/16

Soldier Josh Sculley hugs his fiancee at Sacramento International Airport after coming home from Afghanistan. (credit: CBS13)

Happy Homecoming For Soldier Injured In Afghanistan

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Friday the 13th didn’t feel unlucky for one local family, who welcomed home a soldier who was injured serving in Afghanistan. Private 1st Class Josh Sculley was injured twice by IED explosions […]

2012/01/13

Soldier From Napa County Killed in Afghanistan

Army officials say a Fort Riley soldier from Napa County has died of his wounds from an attack with a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

2011/09/29

A file photograph of Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Darrik Carlyle Benson, who died in Afghanistan on August 6.

Military IDs 4 Californians Killed In Afghanistan

The military has released the names of three Navy SEALs and an airman from California who were killed when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan over the weekend.

2011/08/11

Loomis Soldier Killed In Afghanistan

The Department of Defense reports that Staff Sgt. James M. Christen, 29, was killed in Kunar Province on July 19 when enemy forces attacked his vehicle using an improvised explosive device.

2011/07/21

(file) (credit: MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)

Marines Learn Farming In Central Calif. Before Deployment

At a university farm in California’s crop-abundant Central Valley, a group of U.S. Marines trudged through muddy fields on Monday to learn how to tend pomegranate trees, a crop popular in war-torn Afghanistan where they will soon deploy.

CBS13/CW31–2011/06/06

A US soldier from the 1-64 3rd infantry division bravo company first platoon shines his flashlight during a late-night patrol aimed at enhancing security around local Baghdad neighborhoods in advance of Iraq's upcoming referendum, 11 October, 2005. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)

Vacaville Soldier Charged In Afghan Murder Plot

Army prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against a sixth Washington state-based soldier in a plot to murder Afghan civilians for sport during patrols in Kandahar province last year.

2011/05/17

NorCal Soldier Dies In Afghanistan

The Department of Defense said on Saturday that Army Spc. Preston Dennis died on April 28 in Kandahar province from wounds he sustained when his unit was attacked by an improvised explosive device.

CBS13/CW31–2011/04/30