Posts Tagged ‘2/7’
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Marine Experiences First Enemy Contact
The air was still and the fading sounds of morning prayers echoed throughout the valley as our convoy lumbered to a halt. The lead vehicle had become stuck in a field and couldn’t move. The [Read more...]
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Marine Couple Overcomes Combat Wounds Together
When you’ve practically lost yourself to a wartime attack, been set on fire, clawed yourself free of wreckage without all your limbs intact, your face, arms, legs, even your eyelids are burned away, and you [Read more...]
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Journey Through the Snow (Part 3)
On the last leg of our training, we had to leave Grouse Meadows and head up to Summit, almost 1,000 feet higher in elevation. We filled in the trenches and holes where our tents used [Read more...]
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Journey Through the Snow (Part 2)
Editors note: This is the second in a three-part series written from the perspective of a combat correspondent new to cold weather and high altitude training. Our first few days were spent acclimating to [Read more...]
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Journey Through the Snow (Part I)
I’m not an infantryman. I’ve never been part of a grunt unit. But, I’ll be spending the next month with them in the wilds of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I’ve been attached to 2nd Battalion, [Read more...]