Memories:.... Staff Sergent Craig Worsley, 34, preparing to leave. Brigadier Darrell Amison, Commander of Joint Force Support, Afghanistan said:.... 'The soldier in 2006 is a very different one to 2014'
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At the beginning of 2014, about 38,000 Americans were still deployed in Afghanistan....these phptos just before departure
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