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Three soldiers at an army base in New York are suspected to have died by suicide within just 48 hours, with one of them being among the last of the troops to leave Afghanistan just one month ago. Pfc. Tyler Thomas, 21, Spc. Sika Tapueluelu, 26, and Staff Sgt. Angel Green, 24, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, all died within two days of each other in mid-September at Fort Drum army base in New York. Staff Sgt. Green, Green, an infantryman assigned to 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment (The Polar Bears), 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, was...

This is a correspondance between myself a friend and my sister. I asked for her help because I basically couldn't think straight after I recieved the e-mail. Please read and let me know what you think. Begin original e-mail: You're entitled to believe what you want to believe. What it comes down to is that you trust Bush, and you believe in everything he has said with why he sent our troops in. You know that Saddam was playing chicken with Bush and you think Bush's quick-thinking actions are justified. I don't trust Bush. I think he and his whole...

For over two years now, American service members (all volunteers) have been fighting in combat in the war against terrorism in far away lands. I was also "over there," serving with the US Army in Afghanistan. So why do they do it? Why do people voluntarily choose to risk their necks for up to a year at a time, instead of sleeping safely in their beds as civilians? After many, many conservations with the "grunts on the ground," I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight: 1. No one is fighting so...

This is a long rweport, so i have taken parts from the three main sections:This is a special report from the front lines of Afganastan, you are going to learn more from this article than ten years of listening to the talking heads of the left. The writer is an officer with Special Forces. Some comments of the ground war in Afghanistan from a Special Forces Groundpounder. The Good: 1. Most of the people are on the side of the coalition /Karzai government and hate the way the Taliban ran Afghanistan. The only thing they "fondly" remember about the Taliban...