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2/7 to complete return from Afghanistan (www.marinecorpstimes.com)
Marines with the hardest hit battalion in the Corps this year are expected to return from southern Afghanistan late this week, Marine officials said. Second Battalion, 7th Marines, will return to... More
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Morale: The Marines Are Right And The Army Is Wrong (www.strategypage.com)
The U.S. Army is under increasing pressure to use six month combat tours, rather than the twelve months ones it has been using for over half a century. This issue came up recently when the army... More
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Divorces rise among military couples (www.usatoday.com)
Enlisted soldiers and Marines divorced their spouses at a higher rate in fiscal 2008 than at any other time in at least 16 years, according to Pentagon data released Tuesday. About 4% of married... More
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Corps mandates predeployment TBI test (www.marinecorpstimes.com)
Marines readying for deployment to war zones must now undergo a battery of computerized tests assessing whether they have suffered a traumatic brain injury. “Baseline predeployment neurocognitive... More
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How War Ravages the Warrior (www.13wham.com)
The decorated Marine served two tours of duty in Iraq. He was in the Marines for 13 years. After Iraq, he returned home and served two years in prison--for a home-invasion assault he committed in... More
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'Please listen,' say veterans of Iraq war (www.madison.com)
Nearly a dozen Iraqi war veterans gathered in Madison Saturday to tell war stories. These were not tales of honor and glory.
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Official: 15,000 insurgents are in Afghanistan (www.stripes.com)
Afghanistan’s defense minister estimates there are between 10,000 and 15,000 full-time insurgents in his country, including an increase of foreign fighters and al-Qaida terrorists coming into the... More
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A Reporter At Large: The Last Tour: Reporting & Essays (www.newyorker.com)
When the Twiggs brothers got to the Grand Canyon, on May 12th, Willard called his girlfriend, a married woman in Louisiana, on Travis’s cell phone. She had to see the canyon someday, he said.
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Can US Still Fight a 'Big-battle' War? (www.military.com)
When Russian tanks bullied their way into Georgia, debate broke out about what the United States should do. But what could America do?
Submitted 2 months ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Survey: Marines struggling with finances (www.marinecorpstimes.com)
Submitted 3 months ago by mbentson on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
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