Please remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you...
JESUS CHRIST and the AMERICAN SOLIDER. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom. HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE 4TH EVERYONE!!!
Sorry I haven't been on here lately, but I have been very busy enjoying my daughter and granddau;ghters visiting me in Michigan from Arkansas. Praying for Ali, my daughter, as she is driving back to Arkansas this morning. Please Father God surround and protect Ali as she drives back home to Arkansas. Keep her safe and give her traveling mercies. Also, be with her once she gets home to not be overwhelmed by all that she has to deal with with Luke away in Afghanistan still. I pray for her safe travels back to Michigan in 2 weeks also. Thank you Father for allowing us to have this time together and look forward to the next visit with her and the girls in 2 weeks. Please also be with Kenzie as she goes to church camp on Tuesday for a week. Since this is her first time away from home and family for this long, give her comfort and allow her to have a really good time. Allow her to get closer to You. Continue to hear our prayers and guide and comfort those here on this website with all the needs and praises. Thank you, God for loving and caring for each of us. God Bless our Military wherever they are stationed. Luke in Afghanistan and Allen in Diego Garcia as for my family. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Judi, I was sorry to hear about Zach. I'm so glad that he is in our Savior's loving arms, healed, whole and pain free. What a blessing we have in knowing this isn't the end and that someday his family and loved ones will see him again. And, I'll get to meet him - we all will as we've prayed for him. I will pray for his family also.
Cherly, you rminded me of a prayer we should be posting. And, that is for Vacation Bible Schools and church work camps.
Eternal God, many of us are sending our young children to learn more about you and how to be compassionate. Please open up their hearts and souls to your word. May they accept you as their saviour. And please keep them safe. And let them have fun!
Amen
Hello ladies! I would like to ask for prayer for my Dad. He is slipping into a depression of sorts since receiving the news last week that there is nothing more that can be done re: his pancreatic cancer. I saw him yesterday, he seems to be looking for permission to let go and stop fighting. He caught me by surprise and I let him down by not telling him it was ok to go home to Jesus and that we would be fine. Lord, I need strength to talk to him today! No one else will, Father, and I sense so strongly that I need to tell him what he is asking to hear. Oh, dear Jesus, I miss him so badly already, but I don't want him to suffer. Please Father God, help me today. In Jesus' holy name, Amen
Good Morning. Praying for Zach's family and friends, may they find the peace and comfort they need. Proud Navy/NYPD Mom, I pray that the Lord will give you the strength and words you need to speak to your Dad today. This must be such a difficult time for you, may God bless you and comfort you as you walk with Him. Lord, Proud Navy/NYPD Mom needs you so much today to stand with her, to guide her as she finds the strength to talk to her Dad, give her the words she needs and help her Dad to hear them with the love intended. May they both find peace and comfort Lord, in this, such a difficult time in their lives. May she know, especially today, that You are with her, hold her tight and comfort her heart and soul Lord. In Jesus name, Amen.
I got an update on my nephew, Matt. He is back home again and is "200% better". Thank you all for your continued support and prayers. He is a very strong young man and his spirits continue to be up as he jumps over each hurdle that comes his way. God lifts him over each and every one of them and then sets him gently back down. Thanks again and may God bless you all today!
NNM - broken hearts seem to heal so very slowly. I'll be praying for your dgt and for you to have the words to say when needed and the wisdom of knowing when that hug and a little silence is right. I also pray that you are lead to the job you need so much, may it be soon and close enough so that you can be with your family. God bless you!
It is so hard to tell someone you love that it is ok if they are ready to leave their earthly body. If you have not yet read 90 Minutes in Heaven, it can change your perspective on joining those who brought you to Christ up in Heaven. Take care proud Navy NYPD Mom. I have been in your shoes.
NNM, I'm praying for you and your daughter - that you'll have the right words, or no words as needed & that God will comfort and heal your daughter's broken heart. I've been down that road with my youngest son and it does take time.
BugsMom, I'll continue to pray for your nephew, Matt. May he experience a complete and total healing that only God can supply.
NNM - break ups tear thru the heart like nothing else. You put your trust in someone else and when they let you down it just defeats you. Her heart will mend, it may take a great deal of time, but it will mend. The Lord knows how much she's hurting and will bring her comfort. It's always even more difficult to think this person you shared your life with, just goes on with life, like you just didn't even matter. She matters to God and she is blessed to have a loving mom who won't leave her side until someone else can be with her. I feel for her, college age is such a difficult time in a young woman's life, I have one starting in the fall. I pray that she finds the strength to hold her head up, wipe the tears from her eyes and find the love that I'm certain is out there waiting for her. Lord bless this young woman and help her to see her worth. Help her to realize that you have a plan for her life. She is loved Lord, please help her to feel that love. When the tears start to fall, Lord please be there to dry them. When her heart begins to ache, please ease the pain and each day Lord, mend her broken heart more and more until it is whole again. Give her mother the strength and the words to help her. We ask your name Lord, Amen.
Nurse Navy Mom
When my son had a big breakup, I just used some of his slang terms. Not only, it really hurts, doesn't it, but things like, it just plain old sux. He responded to that easier for some reason. Just told him when it got bad, to let us know--we wouldn't pry, but we would be open to talk with him and just listen. A year and half later he found his bride. He had church, too, which was a help. I knew his youth counselor, and just dropped him a line asking him, confidentially, to see if our son would like to go out to lunch or to the park.
I think God gives us the sneaky factor as mom's, it's a gift. And I agree, they understand their own language better than ours sometimes. I find myself using it pretty often when I'm talking to our youngest. It seems to get thru to her pretty well. She starts college this fall and is in the middle of a break up herself. It's her first real boyfriend. She tells me when she's "bummin" and I try to talk about other things with her. We're getting through it pretty well, she does have her moments of tears or anger, but she has the Lord as well, it helps tremendously. Hang in there NNM, your daughter will get through this, so will you mom! We're here for you!
Please pray for our friend's little grandson, Ray Jr. Some of you may have been following this for the past several months. At about 9 yrs last fall, he contracted H1N1 flu. It has been touch and go ever since. He has been admitted to hospice and we expect the sad news soon.
Please be with his family and support them with your prayers and the love of God.
Raymond Jr. is in the arms of Jesus
Posted 1 hour ago (Friday, July 9, 2010)
We spent a lot of time with Raymond. We had a bed delivered and setup in our great room that allowed all of us to be close. The girls both laid in bed with him. We all took turns telling Raymond the special things we like about him and about all the fun, crazy and loving things he has done. He has always been the center of our family structure. We got a few smiles and a couple of times he opened his eyes briefly. We read him bible stories and told him Jesus was going to take good care of him. Helen opened and read many of cards that he was not able to open in the last month and read them to him. We played music and caressed him and loved on him. We all slept campout style around or with him. He got meds throughout the night which I administered and then fell asleep after one last check of him. He was very stable over night but not peeing at all. That all but stopped early before getting home and what came out appeared to be just blood. His body edema was worse this morning and the hospice nurses came around 11:00 and said his lungs had much more fluid in them. Raymond was starting to labor more with his breathing so we decided to discontinue all of his meds that we administer except the continuous IV meds which were supporting his heart. We gave him morphine and continued all the loving attention. Then we decided to stop the suffering and allow Raymond to pass to Jesus. We stopped the meds supporting his heart to maintain his blood pressure at 12:51 pm, they were going to run out at 7:00 pm. We all continued to love on him for the next 3 hours and 16 minutes until 4:07 when his heart stopped beating and he passed to Jesus. After more private time with him our hospice nurses arrived to pronounce him deceased and the funeral company came and took him away. This was the toughest day of all of our lives but yet we had clarity and peace that Raymond would never be in any more pain. It was difficult to let him go but it was the best for him. We now can devote our love and attention to our other two older wonderful girls, Koren and Michelle.
Raymond Jr. will have a memorial celebration at Crossroads Fellowship at 7:00 pm Wednesday July 14th. Hope to see you there to celebrate Jesus and Raymond’s life.
Dear Lord
Trhough tears, we ask that you surround Little Ray's family with our love. The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, has accepted this little soul into heaven. Please be with our dear friend, Ray's grandmother, Sue (she started "heads at ease" our pillowcase project for military troops serving overseas.)
Eternal and ever loving God, thank you for the time the family had with Little Ray to surround him with their earthly love.
Our hearts ache. We continue to praise your name and wait for the day till we meet Little Ray again in Your Home.
Amen
This was our Bible reading today, and just felt I had to pass it on.
Colossians 1
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2To the holy and faithful[a] brothers in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father.[b]
Thanksgiving and Prayer
3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel 6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our[c] behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[d] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption,[e] the forgiveness of sins.
Prayer Partners
I will be praying for you continually while I am in Chicago at Pampered Chef conference. Continue to watch out for each other as you so faithfully do. Not taking my computer this time, as won't have a room for several hours and don't want to carry it around from the time I get off Amtrak till the time I get a room.
Later!
Carol
God brings blessings in many ways. While at conference, we had a car give-away. The young woman who won it almost did not come to conference as she was dealing with the unexpected death of her mother only days before. Over 6,000 of us were crying with her and how she touched our lives with her testimony of tears.
Eternal God--we ask that you hold your arms out wide for two families. We had two A schoolers commit suicide recently. We ask for blessings upon their souls. We ask ourselves why as we cry, hurting for the others who knew and loved them. We pray for the support of the others still in their schooling--that they receive counseling. Just be with all our military. Amen
Eternal God--we have again received sad news that another suicide has happened within our Navy familes. Please take those souls into your arms and rock them into comfort and love. Please surround the families with your never ending grace. Please help us to be open to those in need.
In Jesus name
Amen
Please pray for my sailor and all the sailors going through the toughest weeks of their training. Please pray for stamina, endurance, strength, and health both mentally and physically. Also please pray for their safety in all the things they have to do. I ask that the Lord place a hedge of protection around them and be their guard in all they do in up coming weeks.
Sorry for being so vague but it for the sailors' protection....The Lord knows who I am asking this for and where they are at as He knows all things before we even ask. Thank you Lord that you are patient and wait for us to come before you with our requests. Lord you know the desires of each of the Sailors' hearts and the plans you have for them....let your will be done to bring you glory. Thank you Lord for your mercy and grace you give to us. This I believe! AMEN!!
Eternal God. Please surround Bradley's family with your love. Guide the medical care team with your support. Be with the other families who have been affected by this team. Be the strength that surround our Sgt. Ramirez' family. We life up all our troops to your love and care. Amen
Dawni--I will also add this to our church prayer list.
Wendy--we have been together through Nuke school almost since this site went up. Please know I have your son and his needs in my heart. Love you,
Carol
Dear Lord
We ask your blessings of safety upon the two Navy troops who are missing in the Afghanistan area. Protect them and bring them back home to us unharmed. Amen
wend y how is your son doing now? there are marriage enrichment groups on the bases have him check with the family services or the chaplin office on the bases
the militrary has step up these services if the service personal would take advantage of theses services hope this helps.
jean'
Wow--Lord, thank you for the opportunity to make new communities within our military familes. How much we have traveled to meet and uplift each other.
We continue to pray for our military. Amen
Oh Joanne, please send my love to your sister. I was with both brother and mom to help them to their holy home. Know that I pray for strength for you and Carol and Joan.
DOD Announces Navy Casualty and Identifies Sailor Listed as Whereabouts Unknown
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor and the identity of another sailor listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN). The announcement resulted from a July 23 incident in Logar province, Afghanistan, while the sailors were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridge, Colo., died from wounds sustained from the July 23 incident. Coalition Forces recovered his body July 25 after an extensive search. He was assigned to Assault Craft Unit One (ACU-1), San Diego.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Wash., is listed as DUSTWUN from the July 23 incident. Search and recovery efforts are ongoing, and the incident is under investigation.
Body of 2nd US Missing Sailor Found in Afghanistan63CommentsAdd your commentUpdated: 1 hour 28 minutes ago
.Print Text Size EmailMoreAmir Shah and Deb Riechmann
AP KABUL, Afghanistan (July 29) -- A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.
The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information.
Newlove and Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley went missing last Friday in Logar province. NATO recovered the body of McNeley - a 30-year-old father of two from Wheatridge, Colorado - in the area Sunday.
AP
The body of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, has been found dead and his body recovered.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Kabul on Thursday that two days ago the Taliban left the "body of a dead American soldier for the U.S. forces" to recover. The Taliban said McNeley was killed in a firefight and insurgents had captured Newlove. Mujahid offered no explanation for Newlove's death.
NATO officials have not offered an explanation as to why the two service members were in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.
The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where McNeley's body was recovered, officials said.
The chief of police of Logar province, Gen. Mustafa Mosseini, said coalition troops removed Newlove's body about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. An anti-terrorism official in Logar province, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the case, also said coalition forces had recovered a body.
Mosseini said he believed the body washed downstream after rains Tuesday night.
He noted in the past several days, the Taliban were being pressured by coalition forces in the area.
"The security was being tightened," Mosseini said. "Searches continued from both air and the ground. Militants were moving into Pakistan."
Mohammad Rahim Amin, the local government chief in Baraki Barak district, also said coalition forces recovered a body about 5:30 p.m. and flew it by helicopter to a coalition base in Logar province, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) away.
"The coalition told our criminal police director of the district that the body belonged to the foreign soldier they were looking for," Amin said.
Dear Lord
With the advances in communication, we hear bad news even faster. Please help us to remember that good news is only a prayer away. Help us to be a praying nation.
Amen
hugs and prayers to the moms who lost their sons this past week.
I wish NM could send flowers or a card to the familes
but any way a big long hug from the Navy Moms
carols_kitchen
Jul 3, 2010
Janis
JESUS CHRIST and the AMERICAN SOLIDER. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom. HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE 4TH EVERYONE!!!
Jul 4, 2010
Cheryl Proud to be Allen's Mom
Jul 5, 2010
Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna)
Jul 5, 2010
carols_kitchen
Eternal God, many of us are sending our young children to learn more about you and how to be compassionate. Please open up their hearts and souls to your word. May they accept you as their saviour. And please keep them safe. And let them have fun!
Amen
Jul 5, 2010
jean
I think she was about 65 years old but not sure
do not know much details
thanks for your prayers
Jul 5, 2010
jean
Thanks
Jul 5, 2010
Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna)
Jul 6, 2010
BugsMom
Jul 6, 2010
BugsMom
Jul 6, 2010
BugsMom
Jul 6, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 6, 2010
Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna)
BugsMom, I'll continue to pray for your nephew, Matt. May he experience a complete and total healing that only God can supply.
Jul 6, 2010
BugsMom
Jul 7, 2010
carols_kitchen
When my son had a big breakup, I just used some of his slang terms. Not only, it really hurts, doesn't it, but things like, it just plain old sux. He responded to that easier for some reason. Just told him when it got bad, to let us know--we wouldn't pry, but we would be open to talk with him and just listen. A year and half later he found his bride. He had church, too, which was a help. I knew his youth counselor, and just dropped him a line asking him, confidentially, to see if our son would like to go out to lunch or to the park.
Jul 7, 2010
BugsMom
Jul 7, 2010
jean
next week
thanks
jean
Jul 9, 2010
Oneofalot
Jul 9, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 9, 2010
carols_kitchen
Please be with his family and support them with your prayers and the love of God.
Jul 9, 2010
carols_kitchen
Posted 1 hour ago (Friday, July 9, 2010)
We spent a lot of time with Raymond. We had a bed delivered and setup in our great room that allowed all of us to be close. The girls both laid in bed with him. We all took turns telling Raymond the special things we like about him and about all the fun, crazy and loving things he has done. He has always been the center of our family structure. We got a few smiles and a couple of times he opened his eyes briefly. We read him bible stories and told him Jesus was going to take good care of him. Helen opened and read many of cards that he was not able to open in the last month and read them to him. We played music and caressed him and loved on him. We all slept campout style around or with him. He got meds throughout the night which I administered and then fell asleep after one last check of him. He was very stable over night but not peeing at all. That all but stopped early before getting home and what came out appeared to be just blood. His body edema was worse this morning and the hospice nurses came around 11:00 and said his lungs had much more fluid in them. Raymond was starting to labor more with his breathing so we decided to discontinue all of his meds that we administer except the continuous IV meds which were supporting his heart. We gave him morphine and continued all the loving attention. Then we decided to stop the suffering and allow Raymond to pass to Jesus. We stopped the meds supporting his heart to maintain his blood pressure at 12:51 pm, they were going to run out at 7:00 pm. We all continued to love on him for the next 3 hours and 16 minutes until 4:07 when his heart stopped beating and he passed to Jesus. After more private time with him our hospice nurses arrived to pronounce him deceased and the funeral company came and took him away. This was the toughest day of all of our lives but yet we had clarity and peace that Raymond would never be in any more pain. It was difficult to let him go but it was the best for him. We now can devote our love and attention to our other two older wonderful girls, Koren and Michelle.
Raymond Jr. will have a memorial celebration at Crossroads Fellowship at 7:00 pm Wednesday July 14th. Hope to see you there to celebrate Jesus and Raymond’s life.
Love in Christ,
Ray, Helen, Koren and Michelle
Jul 10, 2010
carols_kitchen
Trhough tears, we ask that you surround Little Ray's family with our love. The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, has accepted this little soul into heaven. Please be with our dear friend, Ray's grandmother, Sue (she started "heads at ease" our pillowcase project for military troops serving overseas.)
Eternal and ever loving God, thank you for the time the family had with Little Ray to surround him with their earthly love.
Our hearts ache. We continue to praise your name and wait for the day till we meet Little Ray again in Your Home.
Amen
Jul 10, 2010
carols_kitchen
Colossians 1
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2To the holy and faithful[a] brothers in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father.[b]
Thanksgiving and Prayer
3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel 6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our[c] behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[d] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption,[e] the forgiveness of sins.
Jul 11, 2010
carols_kitchen
I will be praying for you continually while I am in Chicago at Pampered Chef conference. Continue to watch out for each other as you so faithfully do. Not taking my computer this time, as won't have a room for several hours and don't want to carry it around from the time I get off Amtrak till the time I get a room.
Later!
Carol
Jul 11, 2010
jean
thanks
jean
Jul 14, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 16, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 17, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 17, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 17, 2010
carols_kitchen
In Jesus name
Amen
Jul 21, 2010
AngiePNMx2
Sorry for being so vague but it for the sailors' protection....The Lord knows who I am asking this for and where they are at as He knows all things before we even ask. Thank you Lord that you are patient and wait for us to come before you with our requests. Lord you know the desires of each of the Sailors' hearts and the plans you have for them....let your will be done to bring you glory. Thank you Lord for your mercy and grace you give to us. This I believe! AMEN!!
Jul 21, 2010
carols_kitchen
And glad to have Sharon back from her trip. (I want pix!)
Praises to all--XO
Jul 21, 2010
carols_kitchen
Dawni--I will also add this to our church prayer list.
Jul 22, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 23, 2010
carols_kitchen
Carol
Jul 23, 2010
carols_kitchen
We ask your blessings of safety upon the two Navy troops who are missing in the Afghanistan area. Protect them and bring them back home to us unharmed. Amen
Jul 25, 2010
jean
the militrary has step up these services if the service personal would take advantage of theses services hope this helps.
jean'
Jul 25, 2010
jean
Jul 25, 2010
jean
Jul 25, 2010
AngiePNMx2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_afghanistan/print
Jul 25, 2010
carols_kitchen
We continue to pray for our military. Amen
Jul 26, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 27, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 28, 2010
carols_kitchen
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcwYV1j&h=...
Jul 28, 2010
carols_kitchen
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor and the identity of another sailor listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN). The announcement resulted from a July 23 incident in Logar province, Afghanistan, while the sailors were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridge, Colo., died from wounds sustained from the July 23 incident. Coalition Forces recovered his body July 25 after an extensive search. He was assigned to Assault Craft Unit One (ACU-1), San Diego.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Wash., is listed as DUSTWUN from the July 23 incident. Search and recovery efforts are ongoing, and the incident is under investigation.
Jul 28, 2010
carols_kitchen
.Print Text Size EmailMoreAmir Shah and Deb Riechmann
AP KABUL, Afghanistan (July 29) -- A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.
The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information.
Newlove and Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley went missing last Friday in Logar province. NATO recovered the body of McNeley - a 30-year-old father of two from Wheatridge, Colorado - in the area Sunday.
AP
The body of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, has been found dead and his body recovered.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Kabul on Thursday that two days ago the Taliban left the "body of a dead American soldier for the U.S. forces" to recover. The Taliban said McNeley was killed in a firefight and insurgents had captured Newlove. Mujahid offered no explanation for Newlove's death.
NATO officials have not offered an explanation as to why the two service members were in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.
The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where McNeley's body was recovered, officials said.
The chief of police of Logar province, Gen. Mustafa Mosseini, said coalition troops removed Newlove's body about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. An anti-terrorism official in Logar province, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the case, also said coalition forces had recovered a body.
Mosseini said he believed the body washed downstream after rains Tuesday night.
He noted in the past several days, the Taliban were being pressured by coalition forces in the area.
"The security was being tightened," Mosseini said. "Searches continued from both air and the ground. Militants were moving into Pakistan."
Mohammad Rahim Amin, the local government chief in Baraki Barak district, also said coalition forces recovered a body about 5:30 p.m. and flew it by helicopter to a coalition base in Logar province, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) away.
"The coalition told our criminal police director of the district that the body belonged to the foreign soldier they were looking for," Amin said.
Jul 29, 2010
carols_kitchen
With the advances in communication, we hear bad news even faster. Please help us to remember that good news is only a prayer away. Help us to be a praying nation.
Amen
Jul 30, 2010
carols_kitchen
Jul 30, 2010
jean
I wish NM could send flowers or a card to the familes
but any way a big long hug from the Navy Moms
Jul 30, 2010
jean
thanks nms
Jul 31, 2010