CAMP DENALI, Alaska—A group of approximately 30 Airmen with the 176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, departed Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on a C-130 Hercules, headed for Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Aug. 27.
The Los Angeles Times reports: "The Rim fire spread deeper into Yosemite National Park on Tuesday with flames racing unimpeded to the east even as firefighters shored up defenses for communities on the western edges of the blaze.
The man who perpetrated the worse mass murder in the history of U.S. military installations, Nidal Malik Hasan was sentenced to death by a panel of thirteen senior military officers today after just over two hours of deliberation.
U.S. President Barack Obama will give the keynote address at Wednesday's observance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the historic 1963 demonstration for equal rights that drew more than 250,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial.