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My Tour: Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace in Afghanistan
In early April 2011, a small team of cavalry scouts with the 4th Infantry Division came under intense enemy gunfire while conducting a reconnaissance mission in the remote Bala Murghab Valley in...
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My Tour: Sgt. Phillip Elgie in Afghanistan
In May 2009, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment deployed to Afghanistan as part of a multinational effort to quell a revitalized insurgency in the country’s volatile south. For the next 9 months, 1st...
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My Tour: SSgt. Russell Klika in Afghanistan
The only two National Guard Special Forces Groups, 19th SFG and 20th SFG, have seen their share of frontline action in the Global War on Terror. Like their active duty counterparts, the men who serve...
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My Tour: SSgt. Mark Fayloga in Afghanistan
In 2010, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment deployed to Helmand Province, a Taliban hotbed in Afghanistan's arid south. The Marines of 3/3 arrived in country on the heels of Operation Moshtarak, the...
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My Tour: Sgt. Kenneth Scar in Afghanistan
In the summer of 2011, the 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment out of Ft. Hood, Texas began a 12-month tour in Afghanistan. As members of a public affairs unit, the soldiers of 7th MPAD were tasked...
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The Real Story Of Accused Deserter Bowe Bergdahl's Disappearance
On a June morning in 2009, an infantry platoon with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division realized that one of its soldiers was missing from their small combat outpost in Paktika,...
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My Tour: SFC Mark Burrell in Afghanistan
In late 2009, President Obama announced that an additional 30,000 American troops would begin rapidly deploying to Afghanistan as part of a strategy to reverse alarming gains made by the Taliban in the...
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My Tour: TSgt. Manuel J. Martinez in Afghanistan
In January 2010, Tech Sergeant Manuel J. Martinez, a combat photographer with the U.S. Air Force, deployed to Afghanistan as part of an Air Force Central Command Combat Camera Team, composed of...
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Hero Ex-Marine With Prosthetic Legs Saves Baby From Burning Car
Matias Ferreira lost his legs to an IED while on duty in Afghanistan, but you'd never know it from the way he jumped into action on Wednesday. Ferreira was near the scene of a car crash in Queens, New...
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