Courtesy Audio | 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team | 03.19.2010
Talks to a KKNU reporter in Springfield, Ore., about her multiple deployments, talking with family, the efforts her unit is completing for local villagers, changes in Iraq, her future in the military including retirement, why she joined, says hello to her civilian employer and Louisiana Guard Soldiers who are going to take their place. Audio only....
Courtesy Audio | AFN Afghanistan | 03.19.2010
Losing your life for being loyal to your country is a reality in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Lashaundra Shaw-Rankin explains how local nationals work with members from a Stryker Brigade to learn how to keep their country safe....
Audio by Sgt. Robert Liddy | AFN Afghanistan | 03.19.2010
The Afghanistan national army and the Afghanistan national police are working together to combat crime in Afghanistan. Army Sgt. Robert Liddy takes us to a province in Afghanistan where the phrase one team with one fight is being used to describe the two branches of Afghan defense...
Courtesy Audio | 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Tennessee Army National Guard | 03.19.2010
Talk to a Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter in Chattanooga, Tenn., about his job as a Truck Commander for his platoon, the Iraqi elections, his multiple deployments, his best and worst days, the troop draw- down. Her job as a medic, the changes in Iraq and what she wants to see in Iraq in the next twenty years. Audio only....
Courtesy Audio | AFN Afghanistan | 03.19.2010
Mental fitness is one of the components of a service member's deployment readiness. Army Private First Class Aquilla Reed takes us to Bagram Airfield where a group of men and women work in a deployed environment to make sure Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines are mentally fit for duty....
Courtesy Audio | 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs | 03.19.2010
Talks to a Fox Sports Radio show host in Los Angeles, Calif., about his job duties in Iraq, his civilian job, going to school, why he joined the military, his family military service history, West Virginia Mountaineers basketball and sends greetings to his friends and family....
Audio by 1st Lt. Joseph Reney | I Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.19.2010
Talks to a Leatherneck Magazine reporter in Quantico, Va., about the goals of the recent mission to reduce taliban influence in the area of Marjah, Afghanistan, what was accomplished in the mission, the challenges they faced, how the enemy fought back, the involvement of the Afghan National Army and how the locals react to the ANA. Operation Moshtarak, RCS2010...
Courtesy Audio | U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters | 03.18.2010
DC3 Nathan Bruckenthal USCG LEDET 403, TACLET South. DC3 Nathan Bruckenthal, USCG, was killed in action at the Khawr Al Amay Oil Terminal off the coast of Iraq on 24 April 2004. He was killed in a terrorist-suicide bombing when a dhow that he and his team intercepted near the terminal exploded. The explosion overturned the boarding team's rigid hull inflatable, killing Bruckenthal and two......