Afghanistan: Marines Rough It In Helmand Province
Helmand Province, Afghanistan -- It's not even officially winter here at FOB Hassanabad, yet temperatures routinely fall below freezing at night....
Helmand Province, Afghanistan -- It's not even officially winter here at FOB Hassanabad, yet temperatures routinely fall below freezing at night....
AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 12.05.2009 | World
KABUL — U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft Friday in the first offensive since President Barack O...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.12.2009 | World
KABUL — A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive ope...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 08.12.2009 | Home
For years we have been hearing about a crop eradication program that does not exist. How many more years will it be before we hear about a crop substitution program that could exist?
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
NAWA, Afghanistan _ U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win ove...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
NAWA, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops poured into Taliban-infested villages of southern Afghanistan with a...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Teams of builders worked through dust storms Monday to expand a base for a brigade of U.S. Marines now fanning o...
Los Angeles Times | Tony Perry | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq -- Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to send thousands of additional combat troops to Afgha...
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
"It ruffles our feathers when someone claims that Barack Obama doesn't support the troops, because the Obamas have gone out of their way to understand the military, its families, and its veterans."
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,250 Marines serving as trainers for the Afghan security forces to stay on the warfront almost a ...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. Th...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a ...
newsobserver.com | By CHUCK LIDDY | Posted 12.14.2009 | World