IT HURTS TO THINK ABOUT HOW FEW PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THESE GUYS IN AFGHANISTAN

So few people care about our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This video shows just one unit of the US Marines in a standoff with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

USMC in Afghanistan - 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3, 2nd MEB - July 2009 - background by iamjohnnyprice.

TURN UP YOUR SOUND

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FANTASTIC GUN CAMERA FOOTAGE OF HELICOPTER WIPING OUT TALIBAN PLANTING IEDS.

Helicopter Gun Camera Video Footage Taliban Caught Planting Explosives Zabul Province Afghanistan. Helicopter gun camera video footage shows the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) placed by two taliban terrorists along a road in southern Zabul province, Afghanistan. Scenes include an Attack Weapons Team of helicopters assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade of Task Force Pegasus observing and engaging two terrorists emplacing an IED, destroying them and eliminating the threat.

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"DADDY IS GOING TO IRAQ"---VIDEO EVERYONE SHOULD SEE

This video is being repeated over and over again all across the United States where families of our military are split apart by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a very touching video of just one of those families and a beautiful song which tells it all.

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MORE DETAILS ON ATTACK AT REMOTE AFGHAN OUTPOST THAT KILLED 8 US SOLDIERS

Attack on remote Afghan outposts kills 8 US troops

By Lori Hinnant, Associated Press Writer October 4, 2009

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/10/04/8_us_troops_die_in_attack_on_remote_afghan_outpost/

KABUL --Militant fighters streaming from an Afghan village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistani border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest battles of the eight-year war.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack for coalition forces since a similar raid in July 2008 killed nine American soldiers in the same mountainous region known as an al-Qaida haven. The U.S. has already said it plans to pull its soldiers from the isolated area to focus on Afghan population centers.

Fighting began around dawn Saturday and lasted several hours, punctuated by American airstrikes. Jamaludin Badar, governor of Nuristan province, said the two outposts were on a hill -- one near the top and one at the foot of the slope -- flanked by the village on one side and the mosque on the other.

Nearly 300 militant fighters flooded the lower, Afghan outpost then swept around it to reach the American station on higher ground from both directions, said Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh, the provincial police chief. The U.S. military statement said the Americans and Afghans repelled the attack by tribal fighters and "inflicted heavy enemy casualties."

Jangulbagh said that the gunbattle included U.S. airstrikes and that 15 Afghan police were captured by the Taliban, including the local police chief and his deputy. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said a council would decide the fates of the police, confirming the capture of the two top local officers.

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BREAKING CNN NEWS: 8 US SERVICEMEN KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

8 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan

Story Highlights
Eight U.S. troops killed in attack on two outposts in Afghanistan
Coalition forces say they were able to repel attack from militants
Two members of Afghan National Security Force were killed in fighting

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/afghanistan.troops.killed/index.html

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Eight U.S. service members and two members of the Afghan National Security Force were killed Saturday in a battle with militants in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.

It was the largest number of Americans killed by hostile action in a single day since July 13, 2008, according to CNN records.

Tribal militants attacked two security outposts in the Nuristan province, said the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

The militants launched their attack from a local mosque and a nearby village, the international alliance said.

Coalition forces repelled the attack, inflicting "heavy enemy casualties," the alliance said without offering details.

All eight service members killed were Americans, the U.S. military said.

WATCH AND LISTEN AS ARMY TROOPS ARE POUNDED BY TALIBAN ROCKETS

Over and over again you hear the GIs on this video report on how they can hear Taliban rockets fired into their position deep in the mountains of Afghanistan. WARNING: Strong language.

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