Mar 19, 2013 · Ali Hamdani was a doctor in Iraq before becoming a translator for NPR. He now lives in North Carolina. Ten years after the Iraq War began, NPR is catching up with people we encountered during the...

They came here fleeing violence and oppression in Iraq to find freedom and a better life in North Carolina. That’s the story an Iraqi family tells in the new WRAL Documentary “Welcome to North...

The company, based in Moyock, North Carolina, is one of the private security firms employed during the Iraq War to guard officials and installations, train Iraq's new army and police, and provide other support for coalition forces.

Mar 19, 2013 · Ali Hamdani was a doctor in Iraq before becoming a translator for NPR. He now lives in North Carolina. Ten years after the Iraq War began, NPR is catching up with people we encountered during...

The 449th TAB deployed to Iraq in November 2008 and assumed the role of Multi-National Division – Central Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) at Baghdad International Airport. In March 2009, they gained additional battle space and controlled the …

Apr 19, 2019 · Staff Sgt. Mary Junell stands on her assigned truck while she was serving in Iraq in 2004 with the North Carolina National Guard’s 1450th Transportation Company. The unit spent several months on the roads in Iraq before they were able to get armor on their vehicles; a common occurrence in the early years of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Dec 28, 2011 · CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - In the early morning hours of Dec. 18, while most service members stationed here were sleeping, a small group of Soldiers from the North Carolina Army National Guard's 1452nd Transportation Company, were riding into history as the last military convoy to depart Iraq.

Dec 4, 2024 · BOONE — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a Boone native and Iraq War veteran to be Secretary of the Army in his administration. Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he was “pleased to nominate Daniel P. Driscoll, from the Great State of North Carolina, to serve as the Secretary of the Army.

Dec 14, 2024 · WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has selected a former soldier and Iraq War veteran to serve as his secretary of the Army. Daniel P. Driscoll, from North Carolina, had been serving as a senior adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, whom he met when both were attending Yale Law School.

Feb 1, 2024 · Days after a drone strike against a U.S. Army base in Jordan killed three soldiers -- which military officials are blaming an Iranian-backed militia active in Iraq -- North Carolina politicians...