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Heath Druzin
Heath Druzin has been a reporter for nearly nine years, covering crime, politics, and the military at newspapers in California, Louisiana, and Idaho before working for more than two years in Iraq and Afghanistan for Stars and Stripes. He recently returned to Stripes as a downrange reporter.
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