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Band-aids Instead of Bullets
Recently during Operation Cobra’s Anger, a multi-day operation led by Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, to rid the Now Zad area of Taliban control, members of the company’s severe trauma platoon extended an invitation to members of the battalion’s civil affairs group to take cover from the rain in their mobile severe trauma bay. Within the security and warmth of the STB the members of the two parties began talking about the day’s events. “We … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Marines, Medicine, Military, Our Best: Military Women, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Navy Builds Noah’s Ark for Marines
The Marines affectionately call the structure “Noah’s Ark,” for its similarities to the vessel built before flood waters covered the earth in biblical times. In the rugged desert of southern Afghanistan sit hundreds of tents occupied by Marines for as far as the eye can see. Rising above the dust and grit that blow across the Helmand plains, one object stands out majestically amongst Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan’s sprawling tent city at the unit’s base of operations at … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Marines, Military, War on Terror
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