Tag: british
member name: Cathi L.
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December 07, 2009 12:20 PM EST --
Greetings,
It's turning cold in Afghanistan . The 2009 fighting season has more or less ended, though we can expect to see reduced fighting until probably March or April. Spring . . .
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July 23, 2009 04:53 PM EDT --
Greetings,
After 18 days with Lithuanians in Ghor Province , have made it back to Kabul . We are very short on aircraft in Afghanistan ; I was delayed by about a week . . .
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November 08, 2009 04:38 PM EST --
Greetings,
Today started off very badly. An email came from London from a BBC correspondent saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid had been killed in Afghanistan . . . .
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May 08, 2009 02:45 PM EDT --
My older son, Matt, likes to introduce me to new music all the time. some I like, some I don't. He doesn't have a problem with that. He knows I like a strong beat, . . .
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August 14, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
Greetings,
The combat in Afghanistan is just getting starting. Everything I see indicates that combat in 2010 will eclipse 2009 fighting. We are making progress on some fronts, . . .
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September 15, 2008 07:27 AM EDT --
15 September 2008
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
The soldiers are living like animals at a little rat's nest called FOB Gibraltar. They call it "Gib." Named after the lynchpin of . . .
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May 14, 2009 08:31 AM EDT --
Please note the pictures in the Gurkha II dispatch contain photos from a training exercise. These are not actual battlefield photos, merely an exercise.
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Greetings, . . .
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October 28, 2009 11:14 PM EDT --
This is the surreal and forgotten story of American policy in Afghanistan since the end of World War II. "Its aim was to use science to try and change the course of history and produce a modern utopia . . .
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January 09, 2009 06:17 PM EST --
A missive arrived to me from a well-placed British officer. I know this officer well, and respect his abilities. He has been to both Iraq and Afghanistan. In part, the missive . . .
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August 06, 2009 10:04 PM EDT --
Night Into Day
Sangin, Helmand Province Afghanistan
Finding the Enemy
29 July 2009
"warning this video contains actual killing, the subjects were . . .
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September 10, 2009 04:15 PM EDT --
Eight Years After 9/11
Memorial for Fallen at FOB Inkerman
08 September 2009
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Just before the mission, soldiers . . .
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September 22, 2008 08:12 AM EDT --
Published: 22 September 2008
Living with British troops of 2 Para at FOB Gibraltar and watching them fight, I witnessed one of the great paradoxes of Afghanistan. The troops are fighting hard . . .
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October 13, 2008 06:22 PM EDT --
The Wilds, Afghanistan
Since leaving the British embed, I've gone unilateral. I flew back and forth between Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, drove around and talked with people down south, then flew . . .
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May 11, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
Gurkha soldier Killed by Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan Named
It is with heavy heart that we share the news that the GURKHA soldier who died yesterday in a suicide blast in Afghanistan has been named . . .
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May 14, 2009 01:36 PM EDT --
Greetings,
Am leaving Borneo today and heading back to the war in the next week or so. Please see the photos on Gurkha III.
Your Writer,
Michael
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13 May 2009
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October 08, 2009 10:23 PM EDT --
A Story From War/Full Contact in Afghanistan
Greetings,
This supposed "low intensity" war is high intensity for the handful on the burning end. While London and Washington . . .
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May 11, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
{More information regarding Corporal Kumar Pun and Gurkhas can be found here.}
Greetings from Borneo ,
Gurkhas in the British Army are preparing to return to Afghanistan . Others are serving . . .
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May 19, 2009 12:30 PM EDT --
Tracking Afghanistan
Afghanistan Veteran, 23 year-old Royal Marine Craig Tucker
19 May 2009
American Special Operations Forces are eager to receive tracking training, but very . . .
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July 19, 2009 04:36 PM EDT --
Greetings,
Am stuck in Ghor Province while trying to get down with British combat forces in Helmand . Aircraft are short in Afghanistan so it's easy to get stuck in places. . . .
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July 29, 2009 11:09 PM EDT --
Greetings,
Am in Sangin, Helmand Province with British forces. British officers say this place has more IEDs than anywhere in Afghanistan . It's truly littered with bombs. . . .
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