Law And Order, K-9 Style: Desert Dogs Save Soldiers Lives
I want to Thank the young lady for her article on the ASG-Kuwait K-9 Unit. Only because I am the Mother of one of the young men in that Unit. He sent me an email with this article in it. I cannot tell anyone just how Proud I am of him and the job ... [... more]
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Half A World Away: Soldiers In Iraq Don’T Hear ...
As a 81mm Mortarman with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, every word is true. We counted the days till we came home, but also counted the days till we could go back. We wanted to finish what we had started. The media never gets it right, and when ... [... more]
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Iraq Blog: Marines Reconfigure For Reconnaissance
In five months, the Marine unit overseeing the aircraft here has logged more than 6000 flight hours--compared to what corpsmen estimate as 1200 during a similar stretch in peacetime. These are easy enough hours, though, maintenance control ... [... more]
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In Through The Outpatient Door: More Ieds, Surprises At ...
And while TQ Surgical sees many fewer casualties than its previous high of 10 to 20 a day, now that Marines have tried to pacify this dangerous province, there remains the tense sense of being unprepared. Hospitalman 3rd Class William Harris ... [... more]
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Iraq Blog: Super Humvees On The Move
At the base's optical shop, a small group of techno-geek Marines are busy fixing and refitting the sights on tanks, rifles and missiles. Rather than handling traditional iron sights, they're preparing to mount brand-new glass on every Marine's ... [... more]
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Iraq Blog: Man And Robot Down In War Zone
After apologies from coalition and Iraqi Army forces, the meeting is finally underway, with plans for the pickup and sales of propane gas. For all intents and purposes, Capt. Jon Brooks, the commanding officer of Joint Security Station Thrasher ... [... more]
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Safe House Surprise: Training The Iraqi Army In Chain Of ...
The safe house sits about 15 meters from the checkpoint, and there are rolls of concertina wire and Jersey barriers protecting the house that the coalition built. We slowly walk up to the roof of the gutted house, where the Iraqi soldiers are ... [... more]
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Rolling With Delta Company: High-Tech House Hunting In A ...
The neighborhood is filled with huge homes--and trash. Once full of affluent and professional Sunnis, including members of the former Iraqi army, Ghazaliya is devastated in places and well maintained in others. The company chose its base ... [... more]
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Data From The Top: Cruising With America S Commanding ...
This meeting is much smaller--a few rows of folding chairs in an undersized building. This time, tactical maps show up on big flip charts, and we all lean in as the officers parse out another small slice of the war. Petraeus speaks so quietly ... [... more]
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Prepping For Disaster: Shelters And Barricades In The ...
BAGHDAD, July 7 -- There are two counter-rocket attacks at CPIC today. Yesterday had a couple more. Talk about kick-starting your heart. The warnings--Incoming, incoming, incoming; wheep, wheep, wheep--get taken dead seriously as everyone bolts ... [... more]
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Hiding In Traditionalism: How The War Has Made Women Revert
Women, though, weren't totally suppressed. They could receive higher education, hold professional jobs, wear Western clothes and generally had a reasonable amount of freedom. Much of that, it seems, is actually changing as the war presses on--at ... [... more]
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One Marine’S View: Stay The Course, Help The Iraqi Army
BAGHDAD, July 5 -- A lot of the line troops in Iraq have taken multiple casualties, and it's wearing them down, getting them frustrated. Furthermore, given the negative things I've heard the past few weeks about the Iraqi police and the pervasive ... [... more]
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