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FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, Afghanistan - Throughout Afghanistan, platoons of male soldiers from the Afghan and American forces conduct daily patrols. Over the course of the patrols there always exists the possibility of encountering women, given they make up nearly half the population of Afghanistan. The
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Afghan National Army and 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Soldiers, teamed up earlier this month to locate and destroy several acres of opium poppy fields. Opium poppy is a species of plant which is the source of many narcotics, including morphine, and its derivative heroin. Opium poppy
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, Afghanistan - It hasn't been a full month yet, but already the soldiers of 1st Battalion 37th Field Artillery, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., are preparing themselves for what promises to be a busy deployment. The 'Red Lions' of 1-37 FA deployed
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, Afghanistan - Eleven years ago when the United States entered Afghanistan, it was a very different place. The Taliban were in power, the Afghan infrastructure was decimated, foreign business was nonexistent, women had zero rights and music and poetry were outlawed.
