U.S. Soldiers serving in Afghanistan with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, make an Independence Day toast over a special holiday treat of pizzas and non-alcoholic beers. Brig. Gen. Paul Funk, the 1st Infantry Division's deputy.
Troops Celebrate Fourth Of July In Afghanistan -- www.Army.mil
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (July 4, 2012) -- It's the Fourth of July again, and for the 11th year in a row, U.S. troops are finding a way to celebrate the holiday in Afghanistan.
In the mountainous provinces of the coalition's Regional Command-East, roughly 20,000 Soldiers are thousands of miles from the care-free rituals of Independence Day. Here there are neither cook-outs nor parades. But there is the day itself, and it's the little things that, at least for a moment, bring these Soldiers closer to home.
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