On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 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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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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