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Rough weather confines troops in Afghanistan

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan -- There may be brilliant sunshine bathing the snowpeaks around this base, but if the weather's bad elsewhere in Afghanistan, U.S. troops here could well be confined to base. One of the limitations on the U.S....


Texas Guardsman's greening plan for Afghanistan

FORWARD OPERATING BASE GHAZNI, Afghanistan - Afghanistan is a naked country. The mountains, the fields, the valleys - they all seem denuded of grasses or trees. What you see in all directions is dirt, sand and rock. So when...


The information war in Afghanistan

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- The artillery battery a couple hundred yards away fired 12 bunk-shaking rounds into a fight with the Taliban in the predawn Thursday. The insurgents had attacked a U.S. Army outpost near Sabari, several miles...


Afghanistan briefing with sound effects

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- Maj. Pat Seiber, a big, hulking Texas A&M graduate (class of 1994), is the public affairs officer for the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division. These soldiers trace their heritage to...

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