BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Imminent danger has a name and everything: The Fighting Season, generally late-March or early-April through fall, when temperatures warm, snow melts in the north and east of the country and the Taliban can again move manpower and weapons through mountain passes ...
Since the Post 9/11 Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended, there has been a plethora of veterans, returning back home to the United States. Out of the thousands of veterans who were exposed to combat during their deployment, many of these soldiers experienced Acute Stress Disorder, which ...
in Afghanistan this year.Prince Charles told the gathered soldiers and their loved ones he knew what they had been through."I can speak with a little more understanding after my youngest son spent some time out in Afghanistan," he said."I think some of you may have been out there when ...
“Redeployment” is an anthology series, each chapter attempts to let us in the head of a new character – set in Afghanistan or in the United States – that is struggling with the current troubles of war. With the help of Phil Klay’s novel I will show how O’Brien’s works ...
Photographed with his wife, Sheri (at left), and their two daughters “I told him, I’m not cleaning your brains off the bedroom wall.” Listen (0:27) Army First Sgt. David Griego Iraq 2008, Afghanistan 2012 Photographed with his wife, Tracy “Sometimes you find yourself saying, I wish...
,” he told a friend. “Come down to the line and we’ll find someone to kill.” A tattoo on his left shin featured a pair of crossed rifles offset by six skulls. Three of the skulls, colored in red, represented his kills in Iraq. The others, in blue, we...
Charlotte Kirk plays Flight Lieutenant Kate Sinclair, who gets shot down over a rebel stronghold in Afghanistan. Fleeing her attackers, she takes refuge in an abandoned underground bunker and unwittingly unleashes an army of toothy monsters.Escaping to the desert, Kate falls in with a band of b...
Around the same time, personnel were discovered to have travelled for security work in Afghanistan, and one soldier was suspected of using his leave to fight with the Kurdish YPK militant group in Syria. All of this led to the introduction of a formal regulatio...
"Staff Sgt Jeffery L. Hartley was an Army Ranger and finished three deployments with the 3rd Ranger Battalion. Then he went to the 3rd Infantry Division. He had been deployed a total of five times. He did four tours that were in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Jeff has more than 20 award...
In Korea, Greece, Vietnam, Afghanistan and a variety of smaller stages, East contested with West. To the people caught up in these local conflicts, these wars were absolute tragedies. However, in the grand scheme of things, these conflicts pale to insignificance when compared to the 500,000...