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  • IEDs Continue to be a Problem

    Sgt. Stryker here with a serious topic – IED – improvised explosive devices. These can be some of the meanest weapons in the enemy’s arsenal. Made from anything (and everything), they’re easily disguised so that coalition troops in Afghanistan (and the country on the other side of Iran) still have problems with them. This cowardly [...]
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  • Friendly Fire All Around

    No one likes when it happens, least of all me, but friendly fire sometimes happens. And not just from the US military. For example, Several Afghan national police were wounded when two AH-64 Apache helicopters responded to small arms fire from insurgents in the early morning hours in Ghazni province on August 8, 2009. [...]
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  • Afghanistan Battles Continue

    Hey, Sgt. Stryker here. Hope I haven’t run some of you off with my sometimes harsh words. You have to know where I’m coming from. I don’t want to talk about it too much at the moment. There’s too much else to talk about. Take August 5, 2009 in Afghanistan. International security forces killed five [...]
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  • RIP Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher

    Well, they found him. Finally. It’s done, though. Remains found last month in Iraq’s Anbar province are those of Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. If you remember, he was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet on January 17, 1991. His fate (until now) had been uncertain. “Our thoughts and prayers [...]
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  • Success in Iraq = Hope in Afghanistan

    While US officials are starting to call for even more troops to head to Afghanistan, you can bet there’s a lot of smart military people looking at all the successes in Iraq and planning to implement some of the same measures in Afghanistan. If you step back and look at the big picture, it really [...]
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  • More and More Action in Afghanistan

    Sgt Stryker here with news of more and more engagements (and victories – big victories) in Afghanistan. As I’ve said, it’s gonna take time, but things are moving forward. In an operation July 26, 2009, a joint Afghan and coalition force searched a compound in Khost province believed to be frequented by an insurgent known [...]
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  • Training is Important for Every Military

    Whether you’re talking about the US military, NATO, or even the Afghan National Army, training is of upmost importance. As you may know the US Military has some of the best training in the world – military or civilian. If not the best. That’s saying a lot, but if you look at the size of [...]

  • Drugs, Money, and the Taliban

    Sgt. Stryker here. I’m back. There’s been a lot of action surrounding the drug trade in Afghanistan. Poppy production is one of the major ways the taliban raise cash to fund their terror. Because of this, it’s important for the coalition to back Afghanistan when she tries to stop the drug problem in the country. [...]
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  • Soldiers Giving Their Lives + Building Bridges in Afghanistan

    You may not have heard about it, but back on July 18, two U.S. Air Force officers were killed the morning of July 18 in the crash of an F-15E. The aircraft was flying in support of coalition operations in eastern Afghanistan. The crash occurred at approximately 3:15 a.m., Kabul time. “Our thoughts and prayers [...]
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  • Angelina Jolie Supports the Troops + Afghanistan

    While summer is a time for breaks for most of us, the US military is hard at work around the world, taking care of problems as they arise. It only happens infrequently, but there are celebrities working hard as well to support the troops. Angelina Jolie recently went to Baghdad to bring some morale to [...]
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  • Let’s Not Forget About Iraq

    While it seems Iran and Afghanistan are getting most of the media attention these days, let’s not forget the huge deployment still situated in Iraq. Things are going better, but there are still bumps in the road ahead. There are more and more positive signs coming out of the country. For example, the 1st [...]
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  • Elections in Afghanistan

    It’s that time again – elections in Afghanistan. This is one of the more important elections in that area in a while. Although, when you think about it, most things happening in that part of the world end up affecting us here in the states eventually. It’s weird to think about that sometimes. Anyway, the [...]
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  • Innocents Killed in Afghanistan – By the Bad Guys (the Taliban)

    Yes, the terrorists are still killing – their own countrymen (and women – can’t forget to mention that in that part of the world!) and also US civilians that are over there trying to help the everyday people of the country of Afghanistan (aka the country to the East of Iran.) Sigh. So much bloodshed. [...]
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  • The Battle Rages On

    Another Veteran’s Day has come and gone. I hope you had some respect for all the fallen veterans on November 11, 2009. As you may have noticed, I’ve been posting a little less frequently. This isn’t because there is less happening in the world – there couldn’t be anything further from [...]
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  • Education in Afghanistan

    Here’s the thing about Afghanistan. We can have the strongest military, but we also have to have the smartest. And I’m not talking about smart bombs. I’m talking about education. To really have a lasting positive effect in Afghanistan, we’re going to have to spend a lot of time on education in that country – [...]
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