20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally

clipped from www.usatoday.com At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY. The data, provided by the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, show that about five times as many troops sustained brain trauma as the 4,471 officially listed by the Pentagon through Sept. 30. These cases also are not reflected in the Pentagon's official tally of wounded, which stands at 30,327. Fort Hood, Texas, home of the 4th Infantry Division, which returned from a second Iraq combat tour late last year. At least 2,700 soldiers suffered a combat brain injury Fort Carson, Colo., where more than 2,100 soldiers screened were found to have suffered a brain injury Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, where 1,737 Marines were found to have suffered a brain injury More than 150,000 troops may have suffered head injuries in combat Marine didn't recognize signs of brain injury

Pentagon Oks Sale of Porn (see the list)

clipped from www.usatoday.com Ten years after Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases, the Pentagon is under fire for continuing to sell adult fare, such as Penthouse and Playmates In Bed, that it doesn't consider explicit enough to pull from its stores. A sampling of magazines and videos reviewed by the Defense Department's Resale Activities Board for sale on military bases: APPROVED Celebrity Skin Penthouse Playboy College Girls Playboy's Lingerie Nude BANNED Videos: Blonde and Beyond Girls Night In Import Skin Sex Symbols UNDER REVIEW Curves Playboy's Hot Shots 2007 Playboy's Vixens This year, the board reviewed Penthouse and several Playboy publications and determined that "based solely on the totality of each magazine's content, they were not sexually explicit," Arsht wrote. However, the board did decide to bar the sale of several videos found by the anti-pornography groups at military stores, including Girls Night In and Wet. 67% of the 473 "titles" reviewed have been barred, the Pentagon says

Soldiers who wrote NY Times opinion piece critical of Pentagon die in Iraq

Were they murdered?

clipped from http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/12/america/NA-GEN-US-Soldiers-Killed.php TEXAS CITY, Texas: The mother of an Army sergeant who died in a Baghdad vehicle accident weeks after writing a New York Times opinion piece critical of the Pentagon said Wednesday she wants the Army to explain his death. "I want to know all the details of how he died. I want to know the truth," said Olga Capetillo, whose 28-year-old son, Sgt. Omar Mora, died Monday. "I don't understand how so many people could die in that accident. How could it be so bad?" Capetillo feared that the article, which ran Aug. 19 in the New York Times, could damage her son's military career or cause him other problems. She said that in the weeks since writing the piece with six other active duty U.S. soldiers, Mora had seemed increasingly depressed and withdrawn.