Last month, the military marked gay pride month for the first time and officially recognized its gay and lesbian members.
After six years as America's staunchest ally in the Iraq war, Britain handed over command of Basra Province to the American military, marking the first step in the withdrawal of most of Britain's 4,100 remaining troops.
BAGHDAD — The American military marked another milestone the other day in the initiative perhaps most responsible for taming the violence in Iraq: All but 10,000 of the 94,000 Sunni militiamen — many of them former insurgents who agreed, for cash, to stop killing American soldiers — had been turned over to the control of the Iraqi military.
"Restraint and patriotism displayed by the Ukrainian military marked a turning point in the Crimean situation," says the paper, while warning that "it is too early to relax".
The development came as the U.S. military marked a milestone in its effort to withdraw from Afghanistan, and was reminded of the difficulties ahead.
Now, with the U.S. military marking its 12th year in the country (the longest war in our history), we have a very different sense of the place and what it means.
Political activists give the military high marks for edging away from its previously closed ways.
Worse, her apotheosis with full military honours marks the very public burial of any pretence at modernising himself or his party.
Saudi military intervention marks the first time in the kingdom's history that its army has crossed its borders without an ally.
White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the military assistance "marks another step toward helping the Syrian people defend themselves against regime attacks, push back against the growing number of extremists like Isis who find safe haven in the chaos, and take their future into their own hands by enhancing security and stability at local levels".
