On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher » Afghanistan 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 » Afghanistan http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/category/afghanistan/ From Beirut To Helmand http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/07/13/from-beirut-to-helmand/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/07/13/from-beirut-to-helmand/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:34:16 +0000 mike boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=478 I remember August 25, 1982, well. I was one of about 50 reporters standing on a south Beirut beach as the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment came a....

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]]> http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/25/helmand/feed/ 2 A New Focus: The Southern Front http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/22/a-new-focus-the-southern-front/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/22/a-new-focus-the-southern-front/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:47:38 +0000 carlos boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=456 People often call the conflict in Afghanistan “The Forgotten War,” a broad statement that misses the point on why the going has be....

]]> http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/22/a-new-focus-the-southern-front/feed/ 0 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/2009/06/02/the-house-in-the-valley/feed/ 6 “Stand To” http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/31/stand-to/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/31/stand-to/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 23:37:59 +0000 mike boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=430 In the War To End All Wars (World War I ended nothing), artillery barrages, poison gas attacks and trench offensives came at predictable times. ....

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