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Loren Berlin

For Returning Veterans, War Gives Way To Financial Strife

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 11.05.2011 | Business
Read More: Combat Sebastian, Restrepo War, Junger, Tim Hetherington Restrepo, Soldier Financial Troubles, Veteran Finances, Military and Personal Finance, Cost of Combat, Financial Cost of War, Military Finances, Soldier Finances, Sebastian Junger Restrepo, Korengal Valley, Brendan O'byrne, Video, Business News

When he was still scrambling through the brush and dust of Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, listening to his buddies’ frantic pleas for a medic,...

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Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Best Documentary, Tim Hetherington, Iava, Academy Award, Sebastian Junger, Sal Giunta, Restrepo, Perfect Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Oscars, Korengal Valley, Paul Rieckhoff, Oscar Nominees, Laura Linney, Time Stands Still, Medal of Honor, Entertainment News
Joshua Kors

Junger's film, Restrepo, is an eye-opening look at the war for viewers who know Afghanistan only from two-minute clips on cable, followed by hours of political analysis.

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Korangal, and Karzai

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Vietnam War, Ban Ki-Moon, Navy SEAL, Taliban, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan War, World News
Nick Mills

Head-shaking continues over President Hamid Karzai's behavior, including his emotional anti-West outbursts and threats to join the Taliban. He has been hung out to dry more times than I can count.

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Leaving Korengal -- COIN Retreats from the Valley of Death

Jeff Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Valley of Death, Afghanistan, Korengal Valley, Counterinsurgency, World News
Jeff Schneider

Previously published at Demagogues and Dictators This week, US Forces withdrew from Afghanistan's Korengal Valley -- known more commonly to those who...

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US Forces Leave Afghanistan's 'Valley Of Death'

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Taliban, Afghanistan, Afpak, AfPak War, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan War, World News

US troops leave the 'Valley of Death.' US forces have pulled out of the remote Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, an area that saw some of the "most inte...

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Restrepo: Filming Afghanistan's Deadliest Valley

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tim Hetherington, Restrepo, The Institute for the Study of War, Sebastian Junger, Captain Dan Kearney, Documentary Film, Second Platoon Battle Company 173d Airborne Brigade, Pfc Juan Restrepo, James Fussell, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan War, Colonel Ostlund, Entertainment News
Michael Rose

Restrepo puts you in the boots of the soldiers who spent every day, for fifteen months, trying not to do anything to get one of their brothers killed as they counted the days before they could go home.

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Reading The Pictures: America All Pumped Up In Korengal Valley

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Nyt, War, America Pumped Up, Slide Show, U.S., Weight, Wall Street Journal, America, Korengal Valley, WSJ Photo Journal, Foreign Policy, Politics, Photo Journal, Military, Afghanistan, Muscle, Foreign Affairs, News, Media News
Michael Shaw

2009-05-10-pumpingiron.jpgAt first, I thought this photo of Spc. Taylor Jordan lifting weights in the Korengal Valley was published out of irony.

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