The Department of Defense announced yesteday that XVIII Airborne Corps from Ft. Bragg will deploy in late January as a part of rotation of forces to Afghanistan.   The Corps will deply about 500 paratroopers to serve.

  via:  cnn.com CNN reports that the President will announce in the State Of the Union Address tonight,  that by this time next year, 34,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will have returned home, according to sources with knowledge of the president’s speech. The move will reduce the number of U.S. forces in the country by more […]

ABC11’s Joel Brown and photojournalist Dave Anderson are embedded with Fort Bragg’s 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan. Wednesday, they learned how something we all take for granted – the mail – means so much to our troops in a war zone.