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Results for keyword: Military

  • Victory in Idaho: Canyon lovers defeat the military

    A coalition of canyon lovers defeats the U.S. Air Force in Idaho's Owyhee Canyon.

  • The legacy of the 10th Mountain men

    Peter Shelton spends a day skiing and reminiscing with the veterans of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.

  • 3:10 to Baghdad

    In the desert outside of Yuma, Ariz., the United States military prepares for overseas combat.

  • Bombing away in Socorro, New Mexico

    Paul Krza says Socorro, N.M., is being stressed to its limits by the constant booms and bangs of nearby bomb-testing.

  • How many nuclear bombs do we need?

    Laura Paskus meets a woman who survived Hiroshima and now works as an anti-nuclear activist.

  • Eminent domain’s poster children

    Ranchers in southeastern Colorado are fighting the Army, which wants to expand its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.

  • UnGuarded

    The National Guard is suffering at home as equipment – and troops – go off to Iraq

  • Bomb test stirs up fear in Nevada desert

    "Divine Strake" — a proposed weapons detonation at the Nevada Test Site – has stirred up fears of radioactive contamination and the possibility of a new nuclear arms race

  • Commemorating the Vietnam War in northern New Mexico

    The writer thinks of reconciliation as he describes commemorative activities to come in northern New Mexico and a visit he made a year ago to Vietnam

  • A very brief conversation with a Jet Fighter

    A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter plane

 

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