What Life Is Like For The Marines In Afghanistan

Members of Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marine Regiment patrolled the edge of Marja with an Afghan Army unit. Credit: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

In Ambush, A Glimpse Of A Long Afghan Summer -- New York Times

BALUCH, Afghanistan — Minutes after surviving the first ambush, Cpl. John M. Boone, a Marine sniper, called over his radio. “We’ve got a civilian here who got shot in his gut,” he said.

The civilian, Mohammed, an elderly Afghan farmer, had been shot through his large intestine when the Taliban fired on a patrol from Third Battalion, Sixth Marines. The Marines had just found him curled on the ground. Already time was pressing.

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My Comment: There is a lot of good information from this embedded New York Times reporter who writes with a style that makes you feel that you are there with the troops. Read it all.