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Iconic images from the War in Iraq
www.msnbc.com-August 31, 2010
Various images from the War in Iraq.
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Afghanistan Then and Now
www.newsweek.com-August 24, 2010
Photographer Seamus Murphy returned to Afghanistan in the spring of 2010 and revisited locations he had photographed over the previous decade and half.
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'We don't have enough power to fight'
www.msnbc.com-July 22, 2010
Three weeks into the fight in the volatile Arghandab Valley, an American platoon of the Army's 101st Airborne Division is heading to the rear, weakened by horrific war injuries and unable to continue its mission. The platoon -- 1st platoon, Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 320 Field Artillery Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division -- started the mission with 17 men, and now is down to nine. Combat Outpost Nolen has seen some of the most intense fighting in Kandahar Province.
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Camp Pendleton Marine Works With Afghan Woman
www.kpbs.org-July 12, 2010
Thirteen-thousand Marines from Camp Pendleton are currently deployed in Afghanistan, but not all of them are engaged in combat missions. Major Nina D'Amato is working to promote education and entrepreneurial opportunities for women in Helmand province.
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One Battalion’s Wrenching Deployment to Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com-June 26, 2010
Pvt. Johnnie Stevenson spent his final hours at Fort Drum alone, trying to put his game face on. He played some Ludacris on his iPod, then turned it off. He unpacked his 72-hour bag, then repacked it. Did he have enough toothpaste and spare socks? Had he paid his bills? Was he ready for war? For a year?
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Touching Soldier Homecomings
www.msnbc.com-June 13, 2010
Video's of Soldiers returning to their families.
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Memorial Day, for a father whose son was killed in Iraq
www.latimes.com-May 31, 2010
To many, it's the start of summer or a day off from work. But as American wars come and go, more families experience Memorial Day in a deeper and more tragic way.
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A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person
www.nytimes.com-February 08, 2010
Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his experience — “a year of complete boredom punctuated by these very intense moments” — lent itself to the tautness of verse.
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4 Afghan War Veterans Look Back, And Ahead
www.nytimes.com-January 03, 2010
One of them, an Army Ranger who served three tours in Afghanistan, led a team into a treacherous mountain ravine to recover the remains of 16 American commandos shot down in a helicopter crash. He still remembers how only their boots had been taken off their bodies by the Taliban.
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Presents Of Mind
www.washingtontimes.com-December 20, 2009
Talk about can-do spirit: It took only two kind-hearted American soldiers to amass an entire 2½-ton cargo truck worth of Christmas presents for the barefoot Iraqi children who lingered just outside the walls of Forward Operating Base Falcon in the south of Baghdad.
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After Combat, Anguish
www.nytimes.com-October 31, 2009
For Vivienne Pacquette, being a combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder means avoiding phone calls to her sons, dinner out with her husband and therapy sessions that make her talk about seeing the reds and whites of her friends’ insides after a mortar attack in 2004.
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U.S. Combat Injuries Rise Sharply
www.washingtonpost.com-October 31, 2009
More than 1,000 American troops have been wounded in battle over the past three months in Afghanistan, accounting for one-fourth of those injured in combat since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
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On the Front lines in Afghanistan
www.msnbc.com-October 05, 2009
Pictures from the the front lines in Afghanistan.
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Daily Life in Afghanistan
www.msnbc.com-October 05, 2009
The life of the people in Afghanistan.
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Troops in Afghanistan
www.msnbc.com-October 05, 2009
American forces in Afghanistan.
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Military Experience, Some Find, Is Tough To Translate On Resumes
www.boston.com-September 27, 2009
Brian Robinson has never had a hard time landing jobs, but he has had a hard time keeping them. Since he left the Marines nine years ago, Robinson estimates he has held about 20 jobs, as diverse as selling furniture and throwing drunks out of bars. But nothing has fulfilled him like the Marines.
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McChrystal's Frank Talk on Afghanistan
www.smallwarsjournal.com-September 27, 2009
President Obama is rethinking his entire strategy in Afghanistan after the new commander there stunned the White House with a warning the war could be lost if he doesn't get more troops in the next 12 months. General Stanley McChrystal is up against an enemy that holds the initiative, and he's working with an Afghan government shot through with corruption.
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Medal of Honor Is Given to Hero of Afghan Battle
www.nytimes.com-September 18, 2009
President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday to Sgt. First Class Jared C. Monti, who died three years ago in Afghanistan after plunging into enemy fire to rescue one of his soldiers struck down in an intense gunfight near the Pakistan border.
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Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor
http://online.wsj.com-September 17, 2009
President Barack Obama will award cavalryman Jared C. Monti a posthumous Medal of Honor on Thursday for repeatedly braving enemy fire to rescue a wounded comrade in the Afghan mountains, the first such decoration presented by this president.
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He Could Not Leave A Comrade Behind
www.boston.com-September 06, 2009
Sgt. Jared C. Monti of Raynham, who braved fatal fire in Afghanistan, will receive the nation’s highest honor
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Gates Assails News Agency For Publishing Photo Of Marine Killed In Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com-September 05, 2009
A furious Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has upbraided The Associated Press for its decision to go against the wishes of a young Marine’s family and publish a photograph of him after he was killed in Afghanistan.
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Robert Gates protests AP decision as 'appalling'
www.politico.com-September 04, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
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A Grim Ritual At Dover Air Force Base
www.philly.com-August 29, 2009
The gray C-17 transport plane sits on the runway with its cargo door open, waiting to unload seven-foot-long aluminum cases.
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The Heart Of A Hero Beats On
www.washingtonpsot.com-August 08, 2009
Cpl. Benjamin Kopp gave his life. And then he saved one.
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Mom Christens Warship in Memory of N.Y. Marine
www.washingtonpost.com-August 02, 2009
In a solemn ceremony punctuated by talk of courage, service and sacrifice, the mother of a Marine corporal on Saturday christened a warship honoring her son, who died after covering an exploding grenade to protect his fellow soldiers in Iraq.
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Back to Basics
http://smallwarsjournal.com-July 27, 2009
“... That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” That was how it went. There was not an exception for ‘achieving childhood dreams,’ nor an exclusion for ‘as long as leadership has a coherent plan,’ nor a caveat for ‘as long as you’re still doing what you signed up for.’ After serving for the better part of a decade, perhaps I began to take my original oath somewhat for granted; perhaps I lost some of my focus on the reasons that first guided me to military service.
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Obama to Bestow Medal of Honor on Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
www.dvidshub.net-July 24, 2009
President Barack Obama will posthumously award Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in Afghanistan, White House officials announced today.
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Lt. Manion Battled To The End
www.ibdeditorial.com-July 22, 2009
First Lt. Travis Manion was a Marine's Marine, a warrior compelled to lead from the front of the fight.
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Idaho Town Rallies Behind Captured Soldier
www.washingtonpost.com-July 22, 2009
The 23-year-old American soldier had written to his father about surviving a vicious Taliban ambush weeks before the enemy captured him June 30. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, who had deployed to Afghanistan in February, was "upbeat" in his account and credited a new armored vehicle, said Wayne Clayton, a close family friend in this mountain town now adorned with yellow ribbons.
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A Soldier Comes Home
www.washingtonpost.com-July 15, 2009
On July 5, The Post published a letter from Martha Gillis of Springfield, whose nephew, Lt. Brian Bradshaw, was killed in Afghanistan on June 25, the day that Michael Jackson died. The letter criticized the extensive media coverage of Jackson's death compared with the brief coverage of Lt. Bradshaw's death. Among the responses was the following letter, written July 9 by an Air National Guard pilot and a fellow member of the crew that flew Lt. Bradshaw's body from a forward base in Afghanistan to Bagram Air Base. Capt. James Adair, one of the plane's pilots, asked the editorial page staff to forward the letter to the Bradshaw family. He and Brian Bradshaw's parents then agreed to publication of these excerpts.
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Video of U.S. Marines occupying Khan Nechion Castle
www.dvidshub.net-July 09, 2009
B-roll of U.S. Marines and the Afghan national army occupying the Khan Nechion castle in south Helmand Province. Scenes include a firefight between Marine and Afghan army soldiers against insurgents, various views of the castle, a Marine Corps bulldozer that hit an improvised explosive device (IED) and interviews with Marines discussing entering the Khan Nechion castle and surviving a IED explosion
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Face of Defense: Soldier Honored for Valor, Recalls Ambush
www.dvidshub.net-July 09, 2009
The fifth Army Reserve Soldier to earn the Silver Star since the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 spoke about his experience in a "DoDLive" bloggers roundtable, July 6.
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On the Front Lines in Afghanistan
www.msnbc.com-July 06, 2009
Slideshow of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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Camp Restrepo in Afghanistan
www.msnbc.com-July 01, 2009
Pictures of American troops serving in Afghanistan.
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A Personal Touch In Taliban Fight
www.washingtonpost.com-June 22, 2009
In the Afghan Mountains, a Company Commander Strives to Gain the Trust of Frustrated Villagers
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A Change In Mission
www.washingtonpost.com-June 21, 2009
Lt. Arthur Karell and his Marine battalion were sent to Now Zad, Afghanistan, to train Afghan police. Instead, they had to fight the insurgents who had taken over the town.
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Civil Affairs, Provincial Reconstruction Teams Assist 3/8, Improve Southern Afghanistan
www.dvidshub.net-April 06, 2009
GOLESTAN, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – The generosity of foreign aid has found its way to the isolated villages of one southern Afghan province through the hands of the provincial government with the help of Marines.
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Marines face big challenges in Afghanistan
www.stripes.com-March 28, 2009
Seven years ago, the bazaar in this barren and desolate corner of southwestern Afghanistan’s Farah province was a bustling hub of economic activity, serving as the primary trading center for a district of about 120,000 people.
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U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
www.sacbee.com-March 26, 2009
The much-anticipated new roadmap, as described by administration officials in recent days, is likely to stress that military might alone cannot win the war and that any strategy also must include a stronger partnership with Pakistan to tame the ungoverned border region. Getty Images photographer, John Moore, filed these pictures last week of U.S. Marines patrolling and living in Afghanistan.
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Q&A: What Afghanistan is like now
www.marinecorpstimes.com-March 13, 2009
With all the buzz about the pending deployment of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade to Afghanistan, it’s easy to forget that there are more than 2,000 Marines there now, operating as part of a Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force.
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Civil Affairs Team Facilitates Afghan Governance, Development
www.dvidshub.net-March 09, 2009
Friend or foe? This is sure to be a question many Afghan people think of as they witness U.S. forces operating in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. One group of U.S. Marines helps ensure U.S. forces and Afghan security forces aren’t seen as an enemy of the people but as allies, defending Afghanistan and its way of life.
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LTC David Odom on The Michael Koolidge Show
www.koolidge.com-February 19, 2009
Lt Col David Odom, Commanding Officer of 3rd Battalion 8th Marines will be on the Michael Koolidge Show to discuss what his Marines are accomplishing in Afghanistan.
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Victory in Iraq
www.natioanlreview.com-February 09, 2009
Here follows a letter from Marine General John Kelly, the clenched right hand of General James Mattis (this generation's equivalent of Patton—he writes Greek poetry, even), who sent it to Blackfive after the recent Iraqi elections. It's what the whole country needs to hear, and what President Obama should be celebrating: the incredible American victory in Iraq.
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Operation Santa successfully carried-out in Southern Afghanistan
www.marines.mil-December 24, 2008
Third Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment (Reinforced), and Combat Logistics Battalion 3 successfully conducted Operation Santa early Christmas morning, delivering mail and gifts to Marines and sailors throughout Southern Afghanistan.
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