Posted on 11/01/2014 10:41:48 PM PDT by blueplum
KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Leaving Camp Leatherneck for the last time as a journalist who traveled there half a dozen times over the years, I felt a mix of pride and relief, sadness and uncertainty, emotions all tempered with disbelief that our long war in Afghanistan is at an end.
Photojournalist Nelvin C. Cepeda and I are en route home to San Diego, flying with Camp Pendleton Marines who were among the last international forces to pull out of Helmand province.
:snip:For the many troops who served at Camp Leatherneck or cycled through to smaller bases, as well as journalists who returned repeatedly, its history is personal as well as tactical and strategic...
(Excerpt) Read more at utsandiego.com ...
3-page trip down memory lane.
I have a pic of two former students shooting double birds as the desert, with Leatherneck at their backs, the morning they flew home. They are appalled at what their CIC has done to their Marines.
So what name will the Taliban call it?
Lets hope the mined it to the hilt.
Camp Osama Obama?
Holding back the tide, when ordered, until the final tsunami at Armageddon.
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