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...a lifesaver.Williams is serving a one-year tour as an overseas chaplain for Regimental Combat Team 7 in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.This is Williams' second overseas tour in a war zone - he served in Iraq from 2007 to 2008 - and the work he does...
...providing security in three districts in Helmand province - Marja, Nad Ali and Nawa...completed, warfare will intensify in Helmand," he said. "It's true that the Afghan...will certainly entail bloodshed among Helmand's people," Abdul Hadi said. "At...
T he current offensive in Helmand province is providing evidence that President Barack Obama's plan to begin pulling out of Afghanistan by summer 2011 will be...
...Bobby Orr of Fairbanks, with 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, returns fire Sunday in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Taliban militants opened up on the Marine patrol using assault rifles, medium machine guns...
...focuses on the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, which were the Taliban...home base in the 1990s. I traveled to Helmand and Kandahar in 2010 and 2011 and saw...surge troops went to sparsely populated Helmand - rather than to the critical area around...
...when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded under him while he was investigating a threat on a Marine base in the Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. McRae lost both legs, left arm and right eye.The fundraiser proceeds will go towards...
...suspected insider attack in two days. On Wednesday, two British service members and an Afghan policeman were gunned down in Helmand province.Before Thursday's assault, 53 foreigners attached to the U.S.-led coalition had been killed in attacks by...
...and raised in Juneau, was wounded on Jan. 16, 2012, when he was investigating an explosive threat on a Marine base in the Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. An improvised explosive device exploded under him.He sustained eye injuries, but Ryan...
...wounds and pumping him with antibiotics. When they landed at the British outpost Camp Bastion, northwest of the capital of the Helmand Province, doctors performed the initial amputations. He was badly in need of blood, which wasn't in high supply, so they...
...2012. So I made it."As did Nick Beighton, who rowed for Britain less than three years after both legs were blown off in Helmand Province while he returned from a foot patrol. He spent 13 days in a medically induced coma."Sometimes the biggest battle...