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mudvillegazette.com - 6 hours ago
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"The first troops out of the door are
going to be Marines," Gen. James T. Conway, the...
Corps' top officer, told fellow Marines in Afghanistan on Saturday . "We've been leaning forward in anticipation of a decision. And we've got some pretty stiff fighting coming."
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mudvillegazette.com - 9 hours ago
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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country approximately the size
of Texas with a population of around 24 million....
The massive mountain ranges and remote valleys in the north and east contrasted with the near desert-like conditions of the plains to the south and west. Road and rail networks were ...
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Over Tora Bora (part two)
mudvillegazette.com - 13 hours ago
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Who's in control of that bucket, Lieutenant? Some
guy by the name of Ted Striker, sir. Ted...
Striker! Do you know him, sir? Never heard of him. (pause) That's not exactly true. We were like brothers. We flew together during the war. We were close, we were close, until... Until, ...
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Over Macho Grande?
mudvillegazette.com - 16 hours ago
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"The plan was to send the Afghan forces
into the Tora Bora Mountains to assault AQ positions...
located in well-protected canyons, with the ODA in observation posts. The latest intelligence placed senior AQ leaders, including UBL, squarely in Tora Bora. Directing joint fires and various groups of ...
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Over Tora Bora
mudvillegazette.com - 30 hours ago
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Click images for high-res versions. ***** U.S. Army
Maxxpro Mine Resistance Ambush Protected Vehicles from 2nd Battalion,...
87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, are covered with snow while parked in front of the battalion headquarters at Forward ...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - in Afghanistan
mudvillegazette.com - 33 hours ago
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As seen above, there's a positively glowing account
of Joe Biden in the latest New York Times...
Magazine . If worship and awe were measurable quantities it could be objectively stated that this one far outdoes last month's positively glowing Newsweek cover story. Their editors no doubt are ...
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Under the covers with Joe Biden
mudvillegazette.com - 2 days ago
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( Part one here ) Four years ago
this weekend, President Bush unveiled his U.S. National Strategy...
for Victory in Iraq in a speech at the US Naval Academy. Now President Obama will be doing the same for Afghanistan - but his speech will be given at West Point. They're different , you see. ...
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Mission accomplishable (II)
mudvillegazette.com - 2 days ago
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McChrystal met American lawmakers in Afghanistan , told
them "he believed that the mission was accomplishable". Some...
of the lawmakers pressed McChrystal on Obama's lengthy decision-making, but the general described it as a "thoughtful process and wouldn't go any further," Price said. "I was a ...
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Mission accomplishable
mudvillegazette.com - 3 days ago
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Thanksgiving dinner video from the dining facilities (DFACs)
on Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
2009. Soundtrack is my addition, and should be familiar to one and all. I'm thankful to have been there, done that, and be home for this one. And I'm thankful that the ...
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Thanksgiving during war - Iraq and Afghanistan, 2009
mudvillegazette.com - 3 days ago
mudvillegazette.com - 3 days ago
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Thanksgiving During War By Jim Garamone American Forces
Press Service Military dining facilities go all out to...
give service members a taste of home on Thanksgiving Day. It hasn't always been that way. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln a Thanksgiving proclamation following the Union ...
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Thanksgiving During War
mudvillegazette.com - 3 days ago
mudvillegazette.com - 3 days ago
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A tip of the hat to all the
folks who worked hard to prepare a Thanksgiving feast...
today - for many fine chefs it's truly their finest hour . And here, just for fun, a behind the scenes video of some unsung heroes preparing Thanksgiving dinner for a few thousand hungry troops at a US military ...
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Somewhere in a DFAC in Iraq...
mudvillegazette.com - 3 days ago
mudvillegazette.com - 4 days ago
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The New York Times sez: Afghan Strategy Will
Contain Messages to Several Audiences . "And as Mr....
Obama's own aides concede, the messages directed at some may undercut the messages sent to others."
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Modern Times
