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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2009 – Earlier this year, troops from the Maine National Guard’s 286th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion supported the first Afghan buildup by transporting equipment, supplies and building materials to numerous forward operating bases. They’re scheduled to return home by January, but they show no signs of stopping. A U.S. military cargo truck bypasses a charred vehicle destroyed by a roadside bomb while moving building materials to Forward Operating Base Leatherneck in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Nov. 24, 2009. The Maine National Guard’s 286th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion runs regular convoys to supply bases across southern Afghanistan....

/begin my translationK-6 Merchants Pummel anti-U.S. base activists Tension between owners of stores at Anjung-ri in front of K-6 (Camp Humphreys), who are in favor of U.S. base expansion, and Nationwide Response Committee Against Expansion OF U.S. Base Expansion(NRC) came to a boil, finally resulting in violence. Around 9pm, July 8th, at Won-jung Intersection, which is the entrance to Daechu-ri, Paeng-sung Town, Pyong-taek City, a site scheduled for U.S. base expansion, an NRC member Mr. Kwak(age:33, Daechu-ri, Paeng-sung Town) and two of his colleagues rode a van into Daechu-ri, when he was battered by Anjung-ri merchants, according to NRC. Mr. Kwak...