America's North Shore Journal

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 »