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  • Drugs, Guns and Money in Afghanistan.

    Sorry for my little break. You know how real life can interfere with the blogging sometimes. In any case, I want to catch up on some happenings in Afghanistan for you. The coalition forces are still fighting the good fight, helping protect the fragile Afghanistan government from the thugs and terrorists trying to take it [...]
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  • Things Getting Better in Iraq, but Still a Ways to Go

    If you follow the Iraq field of operations like I do, you know we have seen success after success in that country. The media (newspapers and cable news) usually just talk about the bad things that happen in Iraq, however. Whatever the reason for this, there are good things that are happening in the country. [...]
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  • American Engineers Helping in Haiti Aftermath

    The US Military – specifically the engineers – are helping rebuild in Haiti after the devastating earthquakes in Haiti on January 12, 2010. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command partnered with U.S. Navy Seebees, Air Force and Army engineers, Feb. 26, here to train Haitian engineers on building assessment ensuring Haitian citizens are living in structurally [...]
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  • Women’s Business Center in Herat Province Afghanistan? You Bet

    If you know anything about the history of Afghanistan, you know that women have been oppressed in that country for quite a few years. With the changes taking place since the fall of the Taliban in that country, things are looking brighter and brighter for women all the time. Case in point – a new [...]
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  • Supporting Small, Local Government in Iraq

    In the southern province of Dhi Qar in Iraq, the US military is continuing the mission of peace in Iraq by helping the small scale local government there. The Army’s civil affairs teams and the United States Agency for International Development have got together to create a District Government Support Team. That team has solved [...]

  • 30 Days Through Afghanistan

    A web-based project, called “30 Days Through Afghanistan,” concluded, March 15, 2010. The words, pictures and video were presented at a “DoD Live” bloggers roundtable on March 25, 2010. It was all the brainchild of Air Force Tech. Sgts. Ken Raimondi, whose background is in broadcasting, and Nathan Gallahan, a photojournalist. Both soldiers are based [...]
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  • 13th ESC Wins Amazing Race Charity Run in Iraq

    Service members ran a race, played golf blindfolded and choked down the “nastiest” food the chow hall had to offer last December 5 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. They did all this to raise money for the Combined Federal Campaign – Overseas. Senior Master Sgt. Bryan Shipman, a superintendant of protocol with the 332nd Air [...]
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  • USS Ashland Captures Pirates

    While the media’s coverage of the problem with pirates around Africa comes and goes, the problem is always there. The good news is that the military isn’t run like the media. In fact, they’re over there now keeping the waters safe for people from all over the world. April 10, the USS Ashland was fired [...]
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  • Terrorist Crackdown in Iraq Continues

    You may not hear it on the nightly news or read it in the daily papers that much anymore, but rest assured that the terrorist crackdown in Iraq is continuing. Iraqi forces, with U.S. advisers, continued their assault on al-Qaida in Iraq this month, arresting one terrorism suspect near Baghdad and two others in [...]
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  • Regarding the Release of Footage of Captured US Soldier

    Sgt. Stryker here. You have probably seen this all over by now, but I want to share a quote from ISAF about this horrible act. “The continuing use of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl as a means of propaganda is a deplorable act and only fuels our efforts to find him and bring him home. The insurgents [...]
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