BAGHDIS DROP - U.S. troops retrive cargo dropped from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III near Forward Operating Base Todd in Afghanistan's Baghdis province, Jan. 6, 2011. The base and more than a dozen nearby combat outposts rely on U.S. and Italian airdrops for all their supplies. The C-17 air crew is from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kevin WallacePlay About Afghan Conflicts Gets Encore Performance With Pentagon Blessing -- Washington Post
It's not every day that the artistic director of a theater company is invited to a high-level meeting at the Pentagon. On this occasion, though, the objectives of a small British troupe and the world's mightiest war machine were remarkably in sync: Both wanted members of the U.S. armed forces to be immersed in a day of plays, to experience through the artifice of the stage some of the harsh truths about fighting a war in a forbidding Asian country.
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