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• Marines, Afghan's Continue Operation Khanjar

  CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan ? U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers and police are continuing clearing operations in key population centers along the Helmand River valley in an effort to secure the local population from the threat of Taliban and other insurgent intimidation and violence.
  

• Personal Security From an Outside Perspective

  CAMP LEATHERNECK, Helmand Province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - The sun was high and the heat was at its peak. The sound of rocks crackling beneath service members' boots, the noise of construction work, and the voices were nowhere to be heard. It was as if time came to a sudden halt.
  

• Statement on Operation Khanjar From Larry D. Nicholson, Commanding General, T...

  Today, nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines and Sailors of Task Force Leatherneck, partnered with Afghan national security forces and supported by Task Force Pegasus, the Combat Aviation Brigade of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, conducted a near-simultaneous heliborne and surface insert into the central and southern Helmand River valley. These efforts, combined with closely coordinated U.K. and Dutch operations to our immediate north, will dramatically change and positively impact the security of the Afghan people living in this long-held Taliban heartland.
  

• Marines Hit Insurgents Behind Lines

  NAWA, Afghanistan ? Marines took Afghan insurgents by surprise early Thursday morning when they dropped behind their lines to hit them as part of the just-launched major operation against Taliban fighters.
  

• Marines Push Into Afghanistan Opium Region in Strike on Taliban

  July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of U.S. Marines drove into a key Taliban opium-growing region in pursuit of the Obama administration?s new focus on securing Afghanistan.
  

• US Marines launch major offensive in Afghanistan

  NAWA, AFGHANISTAN ? Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country.
  

• Marines exchange fire with Taliban in searing heat

  NAWA, Afghanistan ? U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants Thursday after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.
  

• U.S. Marines Try to Retake Afghan Valley From Taliban

  KABUL, Afghanistan ? Almost 4,000 United States Marines, backed by helicopter gunships, pushed into the volatile Helmand River valley in southwestern Afghanistan early Thursday morning to try to take back the region from Taliban fighters whose control of poppy harvests and opium smuggling in Helmand provides major financing for the Afghan insurgency.
  

• First lighter MRAPs for Afghanistan to be fielded in October

  ARLINGTON, Va. ? The first lighter versions of MRAP vehicles for Afghanistan should be fielded beginning in October, said Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Michael Brogan, who is in charge of procuring the vehicles for all of the services.
  

• Stalemate in Afghan town shows task ahead

  NOW ZAD, Afghanistan ? Marines patrol slowly along streets laced with land mines and lined with abandoned shops, clinics and homes. As night falls over this Afghan ghost town, the only sounds are the howling of coyotes and the creaking of tin roofs in the wind.
  

• Former anti-war hotbed reaches out to military

  MADISON, Wis. ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which saw some of the fiercest Vietnam War protests in the nation, is shedding its long-standing antimilitary image by hiring a military historian and teaching a new course for military officers.
  

• Dogs more actively integrated into rehab

  FORT CARSON, Colo. ? Army Spc. Cameron Briggs washes down a cocktail of prescription drugs every day for post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury he suffered when four roadside bombs rocked his Humvee in Iraq.
  

• U.S., Iraqi experts developing plan to preserve Babylon, build local tourism ...

  HILLAH, Iraq ? The remains of what was once the greatest city in the world occupy a vast site on the bank of the Euphrates River.
  

• Zip up for safety

  Jackets might be latest piece of bikers? required gear Members of the Corps? Executive Safety Board are considering whether protective jackets should join the list of personal protective equipment required for Marine motorcycle riders.
  

• Highly decorated Marine pilot dies at 89

  Received 59 medals for actions in three conflicts CLACKAMAS, Ore. ? Retired Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, who was called the most decorated Marine aviator in history and was shot down in three wars, has died at age 89.
  

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