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VCS in the News: What Happens When Our Troops Return Home?
As soldiers leave war behind and return to Fort Hood, what comes next? November 6, 2011, Fort Hood, Texas (Austin American-Statesman) — By next summer, this sprawling Army post will be more crowded than it has been since U.S. soldiers … Continue reading
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Pentagon Memo: Trying to Redefine Role of U.S. Military in Iraq
December 22, 2008, Washington, DC — It is one of the most troublesome questions right now at the Pentagon, and it has started a semantic dance: What is the definition of a combat soldier? More important, when will all American … Continue reading
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The War Within: Post-Traumatic Stress Takes Toll Long After Veterans Come Home
January 2005: The citizens of Iraq go to the polls to elect representatives to the Iraqi National Assembly. Two soldiers from Missoula climb into Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and for 24 hours straight patrol the streets of Baqubah, providing security … Continue reading
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Iraqi Civil War? Some Experts Say It’s Arrived
Fourteen members of a Shiite Muslim family are slaughtered in their home. Days later, masked gunmen invade a Sunni Arab household, killing five people. Organized political killing proceeds, as if there had not been elections two weeks ago. In a … Continue reading
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If America Left Iraq
At some point—whether sooner or later—U.S. troops will leave Iraq. I have spent much of the occupation reporting from Baghdad, Kirkuk, Mosul, Fallujah, and elsewhere in the country, and I can tell you that a growing majority of Iraqis would … Continue reading
The Military: Walking Among the Dead
On the roof of an old airplane hangar outside Fallujah, spelled out in sandbags arranged as crude letters, is the Marine Corps credo, NO ONE LEFT BEHIND. In all wars, U.S. Marines take extraordinary risks to get their dead and … Continue reading
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Less Is More in Iraq
As Iraqis near a deadline to unveil their new constitution, violence continues to plague the country, undercutting reconstruction and spurring talk of a U.S. military withdrawal. “Once Iraq is safely in the hands of the Iraqi people, and a government … Continue reading
US Army Deserter Fled Iraq for New Life in Canada
US Army Deserter Fled Iraq for New Life in Canada Joshua Key grew to hate his army’s chaotic brutality. In BC, he seeks legal refuge and a home. “All we want is to find a home so our kids can … Continue reading
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UK aid funds Iraqi torture units
British and American aid intended for Iraq’s hard-pressed police service is being diverted to paramilitary commando units accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings, The Observer can reveal. Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons … Continue reading
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Officers Plot Exit Strategy
Army Capts. Dave Fulton and Geoff Heiple spent 12 months dodging roadside bombs and rounding up insurgents along Baghdad’s “highway of death” — the six miles of pavement linking downtown Baghdad to the capital city’s airport. Two weeks after returning … Continue reading
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