On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher » 1st Infantry Division http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:34:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher no Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher » 1st Infantry Division http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/category/1st-infantry-division/ One Day. One Attack. Two Oklahomans. Two Bronze Stars. http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/14/one-day-one-attack-two-oklahomans-two-bronze-stars/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/14/one-day-one-attack-two-oklahomans-two-bronze-stars/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:50:01 +0000 mike boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=451 Flat on their bellies with no cover and mortars raining down on them, two Oklahomans, Sergeant Shane Ayres and Staff Sergeant Tyler Mobra, look....

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The village of Kamu is only a brief walk from COP Lowell, and every month a MEDCAP mission is dispatched to provide medical assistance for locals....

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]]> http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/31/the-long-road-to-lowell/feed/ 3 Pointy End of the Spear http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/24/pointy-end-of-the-spear/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/24/pointy-end-of-the-spear/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 06:02:35 +0000 carlos boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=395 It is an unfortunate fact that sometimes stories are lost in the maelstrom of information that seems constant and, at times, overwhelming. Eve....

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It is a scene familiar to any American: the sight of children walking home from school, an adolescent flood spilling out onto the streets, makin....

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