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101st honors two 'Sky' soldiers By STAFF SGT. BRANDON AIRD, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Two Sky soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team were announced the winners of the 101st Airborne Division Soldier and Non-commissioned Officer of the...
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The past six years of sustained high-operational tempo has had an adverse effect on military readiness. To help reverse effect the Army has developed a program that helps rebuild unit-readiness while revitalizing Soldiers and their families. It's call Reset and it's being used for the re-deployment...
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Asia Times Online South Asia June 17, 2008 By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - The words came from Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the weekend, threatening to send troops into Pakistani territory in hot pursuit of the Taliban, but Islamabad has no doubts Karzai was reading from a script prepared by...
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By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes European edition, Saturday, June 21, 2008 VICENZA, Italy — She forgot to turn on the oven. In all the excitement of getting ready for her husband’s return from war Thursday, Belinda Lopez forgot to turn on the oven and throw in the brisket she’d planned for...
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Afghanistan: Lost in translation When the US 173rd Airborne's Charlie Company (1-91 Cav) try to speak to a Pashtun elder, the gulf is so great even the interpreters have given up interpreting New Video posted by embedded photojournalist John D. McHugh-June 12, 2008 Click Here
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CPT DANIEL KEARNEY'S LAST POST AT ANYSOLDIER.COM! THE TIME IS SHORT......... From the Soldier: 12 Jun 2008: So I guess it has been a while since the last time I updated this file. Well things are going great--at least great in respect to this time last year. The men are doing awesome, and continue...
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Local Soldier Hurt While Deployed In Afghanistan Link: Mended Wings EAST BRADY PA (KDKA) ― A local soldier is now recovering in a Texas hospital after he was severely injured during a suicide bombing last month while deployed in Afghanistan. Kevin Kammerdiener, 19, of East Brady, reportedly...
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Star and Stipes June 20, 2008 VICENZA, Italy — Roughly 300 single soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team returning to Vicenza from Afghanistan will be housed in local hotels because the base does not have enough barracks rooms. Most of those destined for the hotels are soldiers slated...
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ROME, June 20 (UPI) -- An Italian administrative court has vetoed the expansion of a U.S. air base, a group that filed suit against the plan said Friday. Codacons said that the court appears to have considered that former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's government approved the project verbally...
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Thomas Lynch unfurls the Army Airborne flag in Kingston on Thursday during his walk from Bourne to Boston. He aims to finish the walk Saturday night. From the Patriot Ledger (Massachusetts) Link here: http://www.patriotledger.com/news/x1564565013 Man walks through South Shore to raise awareness for...
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LTC Richard Phillips' deployment to Afghanistan from January 2007 until ????. I'm Commanding 42 of the finest Soldiers and Airmen in the world here at the Salerno Hospital at FOB Salerno in the Khowst Province of Afghanistan. We have the privilege of providing healthcare to Afghan and US forces as well as Host Nation Civilians/Afghan Nationals.
