Ever wonder what it would be like to live and work on a Navy war ship? Avast, ye maties! Our good friend Sonar Technician (Surface) First Class Patrick Long (ret) gives us the blow-by-blow…read more

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MTV True Life: I Have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This hour-long MTV documentary will chronicle the lives of three young veterans of the Iraq War who have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.  It will follow them for approximately five months as they attempt to treat or live with the disorder.
We will film and tell these stories with the utmost [...]

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WITH Christmas in mind, author Jeremy Archer has written a fascinating book, capturing the thoughts and feelings of soldiers who were separated from loved ones at Christmas. In Home for Christmas, he delves back over more than 200 years, bringing together the (uncensored) thoughts and feelings of ordinary servicemen and women - from the Crimea [...]

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As part of the ‘War on Terror’ initiative, three brothers from the US all saw action in Iraq. In an exclusive three-part series we share the men’s experiences of combat and how they interacted with the Iraqi people. First, Christopher Weber, a sergeant in the US Army, describes life sleeping on tanks, surviving firefights, and [...]

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ARLINGTON, Va. — Personal information on more than 10,000 Marines was posted on the Internet, the Marine Corps has announced.
The security lapse affects Marines who went through rifle qualification training at Parris Island between January 2004 and December 2006, a recent Corps-wide message says.
“The Marine Corps provided a compact disk (sic) to Penn State University [...]

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http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/2007%20Weekly%20Newsletters/070216_newsletter.pdf

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