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War Games
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By Brian Turner, from My Life as a Foreign Country, out next month from W. W. Norton. Turner, a veteran of the Iraq war, is the author of two books…

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Blue Sky Days
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Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

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Saving Private Ryan’s Sweatpants

From a list of more than 100,000 items in storage at the U.S. Army Historical Clearinghouse facility in Anniston, Alabama, released in September by the Army’s Center of Military History…

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Polite Brigade
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From A Brochure for Comprehending the Cultures of the Coalition Forces, a twenty-eight-page pamphlet published by the Afghan Ministry of Defense and distributed to Afghan troops. Translated from the Dari…

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Status Update

From a February 2010 Facebook chat between Christopher Winfield and his son Adam, an Army specialist with a Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. According to Army investigators, two more…

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The war on unhappiness
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Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking

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1 is down
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Cadets
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On not flying in the Royal Air Force

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The things they ate
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Tasting Freedom

From responses by the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, in Fan Greely, Alaska, to a recent survey on new Meals Ready to Eat. The vanilla pudding is so good…

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Soldiers from 1/6 Field Artillery on counter-mortar patrol on the outskirts of Baquba, August 2004 (detail)
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