173rd AIRBORNE: FIRST 30 DAYS IN AFGHANISTAN (MUST SEE VIDEO)

This video captures the 173rd Airborne on their first mission into Afghanistan. The unit continues to distinguish themselves as they take the battle to the Taliban all across Afghanistan.

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MASSIVE FIREFIGHT BETWEEN U.S. TROOPS AND TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN (GREAT VIDEO)

This video depicts a typical day for a U.S. Army unit in Afghanistan. You see them engaged in a massive firefight with the Taliban deep in the heart of Afghanistan. The language can be rough at times.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRASH TALK YOUR STAFF SERGEANT (GREAT VIDEO)

This video shows what happens to a GI who trash talks his Staff Sergeant. Too funny for words.

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OUR BIG GUNS UNLOAD ON THE TALIBAN (FANTASTIC VIDEO)

The big guns of the U.S.military blast the mountains of Afghanistan where the Taliban are hiding out. This is just a great video of our big guns in action.

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WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING HERE? (AERIAL VIDEO OF AFGHANISTAN)

Just imagine what it would be like to be fighting in Afghanistan. This aerial video shows what the terrain of Afghanistan looks like. Our troops are fighting the Taliban in this God-forsaken country and nobody has yet to explain why. The idea that we are still searching for Usama bin Laden is a joke. He could be hiding in a cave right in front of the eyes of our troops and they wouldn't know it. Afghanistan is going to be President Obama's Vietnam.

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CAPTURED TALIBAN VIDEO: 3 COALITION TROOPS KILLED AFTER CONVOY IS ATTACKED

This video was captured from the Taliban and shows a convoy under attack by the Taliban. Three coalition troops were killed when one vehicle in the convoy was blown up. Watch as the Taliban fighters gather up weapons from the destroyed vehicle.

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INTENSE FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN (MUST SEE VIDEO)

This is the type of video that should be shown again and again on American TV, but for some unknown reason the people who run our television networks have decided showing our troops in battle in Afghanistan is NOT news. This video shows a non-stop firefight between U.S. forces and the Taliban in the desolate mountains of Afghanistan. There is some harsh language.

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BOMB KILLS 41 AS IRAQ VIOLENCE FLARES--WASHINGTON POST

IRAQ IS GOING DOWN THE TUBES AS VIOLENCE ESCALATES

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed at least 41 people on Thursday, police said, underscoring doubts about local forces' ability to keep Iraqis safe after U.S. troops pulled out of city centers.

By Jamal al-BadraniReutersThursday, July 9, 2009 2:08 PM

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The attacks in the north, where tensions between Arabs and Kurds threaten to flare into Iraq's next conflict, appeared to be part of an attempt by insurgents to reignite sectarian fighting following the partial U.S. pullback.

Two suicide bombings in Tal Afar, a town in volatile Nineveh province that is mainly home to minority Turkmen of the Shi'ite Muslim faith, killed 34 people and wounded 60, police said.

One suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest in the historic center of the town, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, followed by another suicide attack just as people responded to the first blast.

Nineveh and its main city Mosul have suffered a steady drumbeat of attacks since June 30, when U.S. troops withdrew from urban centers. It is an area where groups like al Qaeda have taken advantage of tensions between Sunni Arabs, ethnic Kurds and other minorities to sustain a stubborn insurgency.

In Baghdad, seven people were killed and 20 wounded by two bombs in a market in Sadr City, a poor, Shi'ite Muslim area.

Police said both bombs were placed among rubbish piles in the popular market. Reuters Television footage showed the bloodstained interior of a minivan damaged in the attack.

The worst of the bloodshed between Shi'ites and Sunnis set off by the 2003 U.S. invasion has faded, but violence in ethnically mixed Nineveh reflects lingering divisions among Iraqis, and underscores the fragility of security gains.

Mistrust is still strong between the Sunni Muslims who dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein and majority Shi'ites.

In the city of Baiji north of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police clashed in a violent gunfight with a U.S.-backed Sunni neighborhood guard unit, and ended up arresting around 15, Iraqi police and U.S. military officials said.

The reasons for the incident were unclear, but the Shi'ite-led government is suspicious of the guards, known as Awakening Councils, because many of them used to be allies of al Qaeda until they decided to join up with U.S. forces.

SUICIDE ATTACKS KILLS 27, WOUNDS 60 IN IRAQ

Iraq continues to show signs of falling apart. A suicide bomber killed 20 people in Northern Iraq and seven more were killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad on Thursday morning. There are estimates of up to 60 or more people injured.

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Iraq and Afghanistan will NEVER be civilized democracies. Haven't we learned anything from history?

THE SLAYING OF MASTER SERGEANT ANTHONY DAVIS IN IRAQ--NY TIMES VIDEO

The trust between U.S. forces trainers and the Iraqi trainees was shattered recently when an Iraqi in uniform shot and killed Master Sergeant Anthony Davis at a remote outpost in Northern Iraq.

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VIDEO OF WOMEN WARRIORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

These are just some of the "women warriors" from around the world who are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. We didn't have women like this when I was in the Army in the '50s.

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BRUTAL FIREFIGHT: CHARLIE 3-71 RECON COMPANY ATTACK TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

This is a fantastic video showing Charlie 3-71 Recon Company during combat operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The action is intense.

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FANTASTIC NEW VIDEO: WATCH AS U.S. SPECIAL FORCES GO ON A DRUG RAID IN AFGHANISTAN

U.S. Special Forces, Afghan and coalition units seized and destroyed more than 100 tons of narcotics during a four-day operation that began May 19 in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. During the operation, dubbed Operation-Siege-Engine

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MASSIVE FIREFIGHT WITH TALIBAN IN AFGHAN MOUNTAINS (MUST SEE VIDEO)

Video shows a unit of U.S. soldiers engaged in a massive firefight with the Taliban in the hostile mountains of Afghanistan. WARNING: Salty language.

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SOLDIER'S KIDS' MENTAL HEALTH REQUESTS DOUBLE PRE-IRAQ NUMBERS

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a terrible toll on children of service personnel.

There has been an alarming spike in the number of military kids hospitalized for mental health reasons.

There is a shortage of therapists and with the war in Afghanistan getting worse it is expected the rise in children of military personnel will be seeking more and more mental health help.

Soldiers' kids' mental health requests hit double pre-Iraq number


The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 8th 2009, 4:00 AM

WASHINGTON - Children of U.S. military troops sought outpatient mental health care 2 million times last year - double the number at the start of the Iraq war.


There was also an alarming spike in the number of military kids actually hospitalized for mental health reasons.

Internal Pentagon documents show the increases, which come as the services struggle with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a shortage of therapists.


From 2007 to 2008, some 20% more children of active-duty troops were hospitalized for mental health services, the documents show. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, inpatient visits among military children have increased 50%.

The overall number of children and spouses of active-duty personnel and National Guard and reserves troops seeking mental health care has been steadily increasing during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last year's increase in child hospitalizations coincided with the "surge" of tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops into Iraq to stabilize the country.

However, reasons for the treatment increases are not clear from the documents.

Besides the impact of service members' repeated tours in overseas war zones - and the severe economic recession that has affected all American families - the military has been encouraging troops' family members to seek mental health help when needed.

SEMPER FI---U.S. MARINES IN RUGGED BATTLE WITH INSURGENTS IN AFGHANISTAN (FANTASTIC VIDEO)

Everything looks calm and peaceful at the very start of this video, but then all hell breaks loose and a platoon of U.S. Marines are suddenly fighting for their lives against the Taliban in the remote regions of Afghanistan. Listen to the Marine chatter. Some of the language is raw, but this is war not a video game.

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BRAND NEW VIDEO OF FIREFIGHTS BETWEEN U.S. TROOPS AND TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

This video captures our troops in violent firefights with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The language is explicit at times. Superb musical background. Filmed one week ago in Afghanistan.

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DON'T MISS THIS VIDEO---TRIBUTE TO ALL THE SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN--MEN AND WOMEN--TAPED ONE WEEK AGO

This video is a collection of images made just a week ago in Afghanistan and shows our troops engaged in combat with the Taliban in the rugged countryside. The music accompaniment is superb.

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MUST SEE VIDEO: FRANTIC FIREFIGHT BETWEEN U.S. TROOPS AND TALIBAN IN CHOWKAY VALLEY AFGHANISTAN

This video was made by a GI with the 173rd Airborne as they battle the Taliban in Chowkay Valley Afghanistan. The language can be rough at times, but this is real war and not a video game.

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AWESOME WAR FOOTAGE FROM AFGHANISTAN (MUST SEE)

This is a great video which shows our troops in battle in Afghanistan. Turn up your speakers and watch as our brave young warriors do what they are trained to do.

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YOU WON'T FIND THIS ON FOX NEWS: STARVING AFGHAN FAMILY BECAUSE OF U.S. AIR STRIKES (WATCH VIDEO)

Fox News has been notorious for never putting on the air what is REALLY happening in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This video is a case in point. An Afghan father says he would rather die than live the way they are living after U.S. air strikes destroyed his home and any means of him making a living.

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RELATIVES OF SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN DECRY LACK OF COVERAGE BECAUSE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SPECTACLE

The relatives of a soldier killed in Afghanistan are lashing out at the mainstream media, and echoing what New York Rep. Peter King, said last week about how so little coverage is given to the Iraq and Afghanistan war and to our soliders killed in the wars and how the media has gone totally bonkers over the death of Michael Jackson.

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A day before New York Rep. Peter King called Michael Jackson a “pervert” unworthy of nonstop media coverage, the aunt of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on the same day Jackson died asked why her nephew's death went virtually unnoticed while the King of Pop got memorial shrines across the country.

"Mr. Jackson received days of wall-to-wall coverage in the media," Martha Gillis wrote to the Washington Post. "Where was the coverage of my nephew or the other soldiers who died that week?"

Gillis' nephew, Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, died in Kheyl, Afganistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Bradshaw, of Steilacoom, Wash., was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Fort Richardson, Alaska. He was one of at least 13 U.S. soldiers to die in Afghanistan since Jackson's death on June 25.

Bradshaw's mother, Mary, said she agreed with Gillis, saying the nonstop coverage of Jackson's death has become "totally ridiculous" and laughable.

"I can watch the news many nights and there's no mention of what's going on in Afghanistan or Iraq and there's boys dying over there," Bradshaw told FOXNews.com. "Oh God, I can't talk."

Gillis, of Springfield, Va., could not be reached for comment. In her letter to the Washington Post, she described Bradshaw as a "thoroughly decent person with a wry sense of humor" who loved history, particularly the Civil War.

"He had old-fashioned values and believed that military service was patriotic and that actions counted more than talk," Gillis wrote. "He wasn't much for talking, although he could communicate volumes with a raised eyebrow."

Bradshaw, who graduated from Pacific Lutheran University, was the product of a military family. His father, Paul, is a retired National Guard helicopter pilot, and his mother is a retired Army nurse.

"He was a search-and-rescue volunteer, an altar boy, a camp counselor," Gillis' letter continued.

"He carried the hopes and dreams of his parents willingly on his shoulders. What more than that did Michael Jackson do or represent that earned him memorial 'shrines,' while this soldier's death goes unheralded?"

Gillis said the only media outlets that covered Bradshaw's death were in his hometown of Steilacoom, Wash., and those where he was stationed before his deployment in March.

Gillis' sentiment echoes that of King, the Long Island, N.Y., congressman who called on society to stop "glorifying" Jackson in a YouTube video posted on Monday.

King said Jackson had been excessively praised in the days after his death while society ignored the efforts of teachers, police officers and veterans. In the two-minute video, King called the "day in and day out" coverage of Jackson's death "too politically correct."

"Let's knock out the psychobabble," he said in the video, which was taped outside an American Legion Hall in his district. "He was a pervert, a child molester; he was a pedophile. And to be giving this much coverage to him, day in and day out, what does it say about us as a country? I just think we're too politically correct."

King, who is among the possible Republican contenders to run against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, acknowledged that Jackson "may have been a good singer" and "did some dancing," but he blasted the King of Pop as someone who could not be trusted around children.

"There's nothing good to say about this guy," King continued. "But the bottom line is, would you let your child or grandchild be in the same room as Michael Jackson?"

BREAKING NEWS: 7 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

7 US troops killed throughout Afghanistan

Published: 7/6/09, 4:05 PM EDTBy FISNIK ABRASHI

KABUL (AP) - Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year - and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north.

Separately, Taliban militants claimed on a militant Web site that they were holding an American soldier whom the U.S. military says insurgents might have captured last week. The Taliban statement, however, did not include any proof, such as a picture or the soldier's name.

Four of the deaths Monday came in an attack on a team of U.S. military trainers in the relatively peaceful north, bringing into focus the question of whether the U.S. is committing enough troops to secure a country larger than Iraq in both population and land mass.

On a visit to Moscow, President Barack Obama said it's too soon to measure the success of his new strategy in Afghanistan. He said the U.S. can take another look at the situation after the country's presidential elections on Aug. 20.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in some respects, progress has been "insignificant" in Afghanistan. He said it's hard to say how quickly the situation will improve.

Obama has ordered 21,000 additional American troops to this country, mainly in the south where Taliban militants have made a violent comeback after a U.S.-led coalition topped them from power in late 2001. The U.S. expects 68,000 troops here by year's end, double last year's total but still half as many as now in Iraq.

The four American soldiers killed in the north died in a roadside bombing of their vehicle in Kunduz province, said Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, a U.S. military spokesman. The soldiers were training Afghan forces, he said.

NEW VIDEO: BRAVO CO, 1ST INF DIV, ON A DEADLY MISSION IN THE KORENGAL VALLEY AFGHANISTAN

This is a very compelling video as you hear U.S. troops discuss the mission they are on in the dangerous Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. Troops call for air support. Bravo Company lost two men in the battle. The Korengal Valley is known as "the valley of death" because so many U.S. troops and the Taliban have lost their lives in the valley. One GI says "it's like taking one step forward and five steps back." The Afghanistan War is a living hell.

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NEW VIDEO: U.S. TROOPS CAUGHT IN A VICIOUS FIREFIGHT WITH THE TALIBAN

This is a new video showing U.S. troops caught in a firefight with the Taliban in the rugged forest and mountains of Afghanistan. Listen as GIs explain how they cope with the day-to-day missions of hunting down the Taliban.

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AMAZING VIDEO: GIS CONTINUE STEAK BBQ WHILE TALIBAN ATTACK THEIR POSITION IN AFGHANISTAN

This is unbelievable. Soldiers continue cooking steaks on an open grille while the Taliban attack their position in Afghanistan. Listen to the GIs as they talk about the steaks while all the time shooting and killing Taliban fighters. WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE

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TOBY KEITH'S SIGNATURE VIDEO "AMERICAN SOLDIER" SALUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS

This is the Toby Keith video, "American Soldier", that helped launch Keith's career and has become one of the most popular war videos coming out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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THE AFGHANISTAN WAR THAT NOBODY CARES ABOUT: U.S. AND CANADIAN TROOPS IN THE THICK OF IT WITH THE TALIBAN (VIDEO)

If you were to depend on the mainstream media in the United States to find out what is happening in the war in Afghanistan, you would be SOL. The mainstream press in the U.S. is so caught up in the Michael Jackson death and backstabbing between Republicans and Democrats that hardly anyone in the United States even knows there is a war going on in Afghanistan. But this video shows U.S. and Canadian troops in the heat of battle with the Taliban in mountains of Afghanistan. These troops have loved ones back home in the U.S. and Canada, but the mainstream media has made a collective decision that only "tabloid" type news is worthy of their space and time. The mainstream media in the U.S. is totally worthless when it comes to covering the war in Afghanistan.

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WILD-ASS VIDEO: U.S. TROOPS IN FIREFIGHT WITH TALIBAN.

Watch as U.S. troops try to save the life of a member of the Taliban who was shot, but he eventually dies during a heated firefight in Afghanistan.

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A LOOK INSIDE A REAL M*A*S*H HOSPITAL IN IRAQ (GREAT VIDEO)

This video takes you inside a real M*A*S*H hospital in Iraq as medics rush to save the lives of U.S. troops as well as Iraqis injured during the war. This is gripping footage of what it is like in a real war zone.

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