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Soldiers Magazine

Monthly magazine provides news and information about Army operations and policies

Articles from Vol. 60, No. 9, September

A New Badge of Courage
UNDER the premise that every Soldier is first an infantryman, one might expect combat to be a fact of Army life. But as dangerous as duty in Iraq and Afghanistan currently is, not every Soldier encounters enemy fire. To recognize the many who do,...
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Delivering More Than School Supplies
CHILDREN at a tiny schoolhouse south of Baghdad got a big surprise recently, when a convoy of Soldiers trolled into the Iraqi capital bearing gifts from the citizens of America. With the help of an organization called Operation Iraqi Children, Soldiers...
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Earning the EFMB
SOME 200 candidates from across America attempted to qualify for the Expert Field Medical Badge during recent testing at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. But by the end of the week-long evaluation, only eight took home the qualification badge. "It's one...
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Hope through Learning
TEXAS Army National Guard Soldiers are involved in a project that they hope will help Iraqis prosper. The Iraqi Ministry of Education has partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Iraqi army and Texas Guard Soldiers from the 36th Infantry...
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Mississippi Sergeant
RICHARD Anthony will not soon forget how he was promoted to sergeant in the Mississippi Army National Guard. It happened just before noon outside the headquarters of the 155th Brigade Combat Team at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq. LTG H. Steven...
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Read to Stay Close: The "Read to Your Kids" Program Offers Deployed Service Members the Opportunity to Be Videotaped While Reading Children's Books to Their Kids
EVEN though service members at Camp Eggers, in Kabul, Afghanistan, are separated from their families by thousands of miles, they can still read to their kids. Thanks to the efforts of one noncommissioned officer assigned to the Office of Military...
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Training Today's Soldiers at CMTC: Combat Maneuver Training Center
THE sign on the outskirts of the village reads "Fallujah," and the Soldiers approaching the cluster of buildings are appropriately wary. They scan the area, alert for trouble, as they tread carefully through ... eight inches of fresh snow. Though...
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Training Today's Soldiers at JRTC: Joint Readiness Training Center
WITH the sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance mingling with the call to prayer from a nearby "mosque," the sight of people in gallabiyahs and burkahs mingling with Soldiers in full battle rattle, and the smell of goat meat being grilled...
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Training Today's Soldiers at NTC: National Training Center
SOLDIERS head into Iraq open-eyed. Suicide bombings, skirmishes, riots, cultural clashes--reacting to such things is nearly second nature after two weeks of wargaming at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. But training at NTC is not...
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