POST: Operation Continuing Promise Sets Sail, by Paul McLeary, Ares, 9/2/2008

The lead:

While stretched thin fighting two hot wars, deploying troops on peacekeeping and training missions from southeast Asia to Bosnia, launching a new Africa combatant command, and keeping a battle-ready deployment on the North/South Korean border; the American military still makes it a priority to invest time, resources and personnel to conduct smaller humanitarian missions among poverty-stricken populations in need of medical care.

(Thanks: Louis Heberlein)