WOMEN IN MILITARY FACE UNREPORTED HARDSHIPS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

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While Americans traditionally take Memorial Day to look back and remember the men who have given to their country, the women who have entered the battlefield often go unnoticed. 150 female US soldiers have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and as Amber Stone of Military Families Speaks Out says, even once off the frontline there is a war within that is never truly silenced. Stone speaks to RT about her ordeals on and off the front.

KICK ASS VIDEO: MARINES ENGAGE TALIBAN

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Production of U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, taking highly accurate IDF at Patrol Base Georgetown in Kajaki Sofla, Afghanistan

COMPLETE LIST OF U.S. CASUALTIES FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WAR

Click on the following link to read a complete list of U.S. casualties including suicides from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

http://antiwar.com/casualties/

M240 HELMET CAM FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN | FUNKER530

LISTEN UP!!! NEW PLANS FOR ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN IN THIS VIDEO

The Army has announced new plans for the Army in Afghanistan.  See what is in store for our troops in this video:

http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/#/SitRep/Military+Times%3A+SitRep+Online+for+April+2%2C+2012/57707019001/57494968001/1543766521001

FAMILY DEMANDS ANSWERS WHY U.S. ARMY MAJOR ROBERT MARCHANTI WAS EXECUTED INSIDE OF AFGHAN SECURITY HQ

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Major Robert Marchanti was executed inside Afghan's security HQ's, and his family is demanding answers.

GRUESOME PICS OF THREE U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHAN SUICIDE BLAST

Click on this link to read story and view pics from suicide blast that killed three U.S. soldiers.


Suicide blast kills 3 American soldiers in usually peaceful Afghan province

U.S. MARINES IN COMBAT IN AFGHANISTAN

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Raw video of U.S.Marines in combat in Afghanistan

US Army 75th Ranger Regiment - 2011 Recruitment video

"SWIFTBOATING" TAMMY DUCKWORTH. "DEADBEAT DAD" ILL. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOE WALSH BLASTS IRAQ WAR VET

REPUBLICAN ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN JOE WALSH, who owes over $160,000 in back child support, blasted military veteran and amputee TAMMY DUCKWORTH by saying serving in the military does not qualify anyone for a political office.

Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran and former U.S. Army helicopter pilot whose severe combat wounds cost her both of her legs and damaged her right arm. She continues to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran.

Perhaps the "deadbeat dad" should have told that to Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower and Sen.Bob Dole, both Republicans. 

Read full story here:

Swiftboating Tammy Duckworth - Joe Walsh Digs A Deeper Hole

IF THIS VIDEO DOESN'T MAKE YOU CRY, NOTHING WILL---COLLECTION OF SURPRISE HOMECOMINGS FOR OUR TROOPS

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The Song is called: Praan, by Garry Schyman

Heartwarming video collection of our troops returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. 

SERGEANT WHO SAVED AFGHAN BOYS LIFE LAID TO REST IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

A heroic Sergeant was laid to rest Monday after giving his life for a child.

After lifting a boy out of the way of an oncoming armored vehicle, Sgt. Dennis Weichel was struck by the truck and subsequently died from injuries he sustained, according to the Associated Press. The military originally reported that Weichel had saved an Afghan girl.

A funeral service was held for Weichel on Monday in Providence, R.I. where the flags were flown at half staff, WPRI reports. He will be buried at the State Veterans Cemetery at Exeter.
"I knew Weichel would do something like that because he definitely cares about people," Spec. Seth Chiaro told the news outlet.

Weichel was posthumously promoted to Sergeant and was awarded the bronze star and the NATO Service Medal Afghanistan Campaign Ribbon RI Star, the AP reports.

During the funeral service, according to WPRI, Maj. General Kevin McBride called Weichel's selfless act "a virtue we should all live by."

Read the full story here and watch slide show:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/sgt-dennis-weichel-funeral_n_1397906.html


Watch video tribute to Sgt. Weichel:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/remembering-an-american-hero-28791791.html;_ylt=AkGkOJtsxiL1efT4EAWR5SIBS5Z4#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fworld-15749633%252Fremembering-an-american-hero-28791791.html

"CURVEBALL"--IRAQI MAN WHO LIED TO BUSH AND CHENEY THAT LED TO IRAQ WAR WILL CONFESS ALL

The IRAQI man, who was known as "Curveball," will appear in a British television interview on Monday and he plans to confess that he misled BUSH and CHENEY about WMDs in Iraq and the result was the IRAQ war was launched that cost over 4,500 American lives and 100,000 Iraqi citizens.

Read more here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html

MUST VIEW VIDEO: Documentary : Afghanistan's Girlpower!

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The state of women in Afghanistan. Under 13 percent of women in Afghanistan cannot read or write even after over ten years of war.

12 Rangers get Silver Stars for Afghan heroics - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times

Hooah!   12 Rangers get Silver Stars for heroics in Afghanistan

Read more here:

12 Rangers get Silver Stars for Afghan heroics - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times

RACHEL MADDOW'S NEW BOOK, "DRIFT," WINS RAVE REVIEW IN NEW YORK TIMES

RACHEL MADDOW, host of the "Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, has received a justified rave review for her new book, "DRIFT" in the NEW YORK TIMES,  which details how America has drifted into a war culture run by politicians in Washington and carried out by young Americans in what appears to be a never-ending search to find more and more ways to get around Congress and declare war on some country which is no threat to the security of the United States.

Read the NEW YORK TIMES review here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/books/drift-by-rachel-maddow-of-msnbc-traces-american-militarism.html?_r=1

US Marines Recon Engage Enemy Forces

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U.S. Marines with Company B., 1st Reconnaissance Battalion engage enemy forces from a patrol base near Sangin, Afghanistan

BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AFGHANISTAN WAR FROM BRITS POV

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As a former U.S. Marine currently serving in the U.S. Army, I found this doc to be an eye opener.



Chronicling the exploits of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment as captured by the Soldiers themselves, the footage shot by these men was only recently declassified by the MoD. It has since been compiled to tell their story via a BBC documentary series titled "Our War".


Watch. Reel. Learn. Dedicated to us, the International Security Assistance Force, and those who did not make it home.


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The War in Afghanistan: Time to Leave?

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A recent CBS poll indicates 69 percent of Americans feel it is time for the United States to pull out of Afghanistan.

US military base under Taliban control

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Known to US soldiers as the Valley of Death, it's been the scene of the some of the most intense fighting in the war in Afghanistan.



After years of intense fighting, the US has left its remote outpost in the Korengal Valley, in the country's east.


Al Jazeera's James Bays has more on the move, which the US calls a re-positioning of forces, but which the Taliban has declared a US defeat.
 
 
 
 

BREAKING NEWS: 3 NATO SOLDIERS KILLED BY AFGHAN WEARING AFGHAN ARMY UNIFORM

A total of three NATO soldiers were killed Monday by an Afghan man wearing an Afghan Army uniform in what is considered to be revenge for the killing of 16 Afghan civilians by Sgt. Robert Bales.

Read the full story here:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/26/world/asia/afghanistan-nato-deaths/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

AFGHANISTAN WAR RAGES ON WITH NO END IN SIGHT (VIDEO)

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U.S. Army Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, battling Insurgents in the Pech River and Waygal Valley in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

DEA "The FAST Team" in Afghanistan

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Over a village in southern Afghanistan, an American helicopter circles and lands. Armed men jump out and huddle near a compound wall. A translator speaking through a megaphone announces a police action and says the men are coming in.
It's one of the most politically unstable corners of the world, but the men aren't on a typical mission for troops in Afghanistan. In fact, they aren't even soldiers, and, despite what it looks like, this is not a U.S. military operation. This is the American Drug Enforcement Administration.

"It's never just about seizing and destroying the drugs," team leader Frank Tarentino told "Nightline." "It's really more about the taking down, dismantling, the disruption of organizations. ... This operation will start to generate intelligence and information that will assist for following operations."

For nine years the DEA has quietly toiled away in Afghanistan to stop drug traffickers. But now the agency is at the center of the Obama administration's strategy in Afghanistan.

REUTERS REPORTS AFGHANS WANT DEATH PENALTY FOR SOLDIER WHO KILLED 16 AFGHAN CITIZENS (WATCH VIDEO)

Reuters is reporting Afghanistan wants the death penalty for U.S. soldier who killed 16 Afghan citizens.

Read more here and watch video

http://tiny.cc/3p1obw

101st Airborne Fights Off Taliban Strike (Raw video)

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Katie Couric reports on U.S. infantry soldiers from the 101st Airborne who, while protecting polling sites in Afghanistan this past August, faced a barrage of weapons fire in a coordinated attack by the Taliban.

ACDC - If You Want Blood You Got It (Afghanistan Combat Video)

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Afghanistan:  The war that never ends.  New combat footage.  Music by AC/DC

WATCH VIDEO: AH-64 Apache Crash Afghanistan

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AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Soldiers Battle Taliban Forces In Afghanistan (OEFX)

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Footage of U.S. Army soldiers serving in Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom '10. Divisions' involved: 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, 4th Infantry Division, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division.

NEWS ALERT: MORE INFO ON STAFF SGT WHO WENT ON SHOOTING SPREE IN AFGHANISTAN. WATCH VIDEO

New information is coming out on Staff Sgt. Robert Bales who went on a shooting spree in Afghanistan killing 16 Afghan civilians.  Watch video here:

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46777273/#46777273

Before people rush to judgement, I would suggest unless you have seen what happens in combat situations personally you have no right to pass judgement on Staff Sgt. Bales. 

Bill Corcoran
Former Cpl. (E-4) U.S. Army Combat Engineers, Korean War veteran. 

BREAKING NEWS: Afghanistan Shooting Suspect Deployed Four Times

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War service, injuries and marital strife could have strained soldier.

For more, click here:http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/staff-sgt-robert-bales-identified-suspect-massa...