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Reporting from Iraq: War steals comforts, sometimes tears families apart
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
Dogs barking and cascading calls to prayer cut through the predawn silence. We hid in the reeds, looking for the enemy. Pvt. Dan Stepp peered through his night vision goggles, down the scope of his M-4 machine gun, scanning the area for movement. Spc. Brittney Griffy, a medic, lay close by in the dirt. Full story »
Reporting From Iraq: Victims of war seek aid
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
More than 250,000 Iraqis in this current battleground spend each day in a search for clean water, food, shelter and medical aid. They are a small part of the estimated 4.2 million Iraqis who have been displaced since the war started, including 2.4 million inside Iraq, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, which tracks conflict-induced displacements worldwide. Full story »
Troops welcome R&R program, which offers free travel and the chance for a break
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
In a gray Army T-shirt, black shorts and a heavy M-249 machine gun slung over his shoulder, Derek Toledo was already starting to relax.
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Reporting from Iraq: Violence still flourishes in Diyala
Monday, July 21, 2008
A black burn mark covers one corner of a mud brick wall.
The stain, less than a block from the Wajihiyah City Council office, marks the spot where two weeks ago a young woman wearing a black hijab blew herself up.
It's believed she intended to detonate the bomb strapped to her body in the midst of a group of new Sons of Iraq recruits — citizen soldiers enlisted to help battle insurgents and members of terrorist cells operating in the province.
Full story »Reporting from Iraq: Convoy travels perilous route to supply Seabees
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The moon hasn't yet risen, and the road is dark. On the first midnight run of a two-night journey from Camp Ramadi to a small outpost a few miles from the Syrian border, a long convoy of armored semitrailers snakes past darkened farms, dusty hamlets and Iraqi police checkpoints. Full story »
Contractors are employing a diverse staff
Friday, July 18, 2008
One of the first greetings American troops learn in Iraq isn't in Arabic. It's in Swahili. Full story »
Contacting family eases war times
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Cocooned in a metal shipping container outfitted with an air conditioner, Elizabeth Gonzalez doles out aspirin and Ace bandages to Seabees and Marines working on this hot and dusty base near the Syrian border.
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Reporting from Iraq: This time, Seabees go to work on men injured in bombing
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Ruben Romeo felt it in his feet before he heard it. He was getting ready to go to morning chow when a low rumble pulsated up through the ground. The Seabee, from Ventura County's Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3, is part of a small crew of men and women stationed in this far-flung outpost in western Iraq. Full story »
Food in the field not for gourmets
Saturday, July 12, 2008
ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq — The line forms daily before 7 a.m. for one of two hot meals served to the Marines, soldiers and Seabees.
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Area Seabees make best of war
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Rouel Agustin, a Seabee builder utilityman from Oxnard, doesn't let his mind drift too much to what he misses about home.
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Reporting from Iraq: Comfort food for troops can pack on the pounds
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
There are many threats for the troops deployed here, but few as insidious as the bacon cheeseburger, French fries and soda.
Troops sometimes pack on the pounds, just like civilians. Sometimes they skirt the mandatory three-times-a-week physical training or help themselves to a few more trips around the lunch line. Full story »
Troops sometimes pack on the pounds, just like civilians. Sometimes they skirt the mandatory three-times-a-week physical training or help themselves to a few more trips around the lunch line. Full story »
Reporting from Iraq: Seabees battle heat, family separation at base in Iraq
Monday, July 7, 2008
The sound of Christian songs belted out by a three-member choir and band could be heard drifting from a plywood hut, a nondenominational worship hall that is surrounded by concrete blast walls. Full story »
Blogger kicked out of Iraq province for war photos
Sunday, July 6, 2008
It's a disturbing picture. The dead Marine is lying on his back, his face damaged beyond recognition because of the blast. But for photojournalist and blogger Zoriah Miller, 32, it was important to capture the daily toll of war in Iraq. Full story »
