A first person report from a lieutenant at the front in Afghanistant published in the New York Times: ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan — I deployed last June with the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment from Vilseck, Germany, to an isolated combat outpost in a remote district of Afghanistan’s Zabul Province. I turned 24 two days after we arrived in Afghanistan, but I’d trained for six years to get this chance to lead soldiers in combat; four years at West Point, then infantry training and Ranger School, finally followed by training with my platoon through a frigid German winter. After a long helicopter flight to Combat Outpost Mizan, where my platoon and I would live and fight, I knew my chance had come to do what I’d trained for. Read the rest at "Desk Guilt", US Army First Lieutenant Troy Peterson; New York Times; May 6, 2011 I'm struck by how well this junior officer writes, much better than the usual public university graduate.
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