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In an army that been waging war in Afghanistan for 11 years, talking about past deployments is what amounts to small talk on the many bases I visited this past week from Kabul to Kandahar, as well as along the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan. Soldiers rattle off the dates and locations of their deployments, and point out fellow soldiers with whom they served.
The Army Third Infantry Division moved its headquarters recently from its home base at Fort Stewart, Ga., to Kandahar, Afghanistan. The move marked the division first deployment to Afghanistan, but it fifth to a war zone in the last 10 aOlernKienOP air jordan 6 retro infrared white infrared black 2014 New House and Land Fo air jordan 1 retro stealth royal red years.
The Third Infantry Division made history in 2003 when it kicked off the war in Iraq as the so called of the spear, driving up from Kuwait straight into Baghdad in what veterans remember as the Run. First Class Joseph Aiello says air jordan 9 fontay montana he couldn imagine back then that he would be in Afghanistan nine years later, still fighting a war. When the Iraq war began, he was dating his sweetheart Terri. Today they are parents air jordan xx3 white varsity red to air jordan 7 french blue white french blue flint grey three small children. Aiello has been on four of the division’s five deployments since 2003.
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Back in Georgia, Aiello wife, Terri, makes her own contribution to the war, as air jordan 2 ii retro qf candy pack del sol white black a physical therapist assistant helping wounded vets. At home she has become accustomed to living the life of a single mom.
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bad day would be having a stressful day [at work] and then going home and the boys are fighting, Alyssa cranky and the homework not done, she said about her three children.
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Her sacrifices are not lost on her husband.
lot of people say that the soldiers got a hard job and everything like that. But the way I look at it, sir, is I definitely think the wives have the hardest job in the Army, Aiello told me.
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Eleven years of war have left tens of thousands of service families, like the Aiellos, sharing the void of long and too frequent separations.
Maj. Gen. Robert Abrams, commanding general of the Third Infantry Division and the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command South, underscored the point.
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More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
Aiello recalled the long wait for letters from home in those early days following the Iraq invasion. Now he does video chats with his family regularly via Skype, which didn exist in 2003.
On the TODAY Show this weekend, dozens of service members crowded around our broadcast location here at the joint task force headquarters for ISAF in Kabul. Many of them carried signs with Nike Air Foamposite One pictures of the children whose birthdays, and sweet 16 parties they are missing back home.
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan kills at least 14 people, including 3 NATO service members, bringing the US aOlernKienOP air jordan 7 vii retro white french blue Michael Duberry death toll on the ground to 2,000 with 20 percent of American combat deaths stemming from insider attacks. NBC’s Richard Engel reports.
The international coalition has set the aOlernKienOP air jordan fusion 4 kker Med Baby Phat end of 2014 to withdraw most combat forces from Afghanistan. In the meantime, the United States will continue to ask a lot aOlernKienOP air jordan iv 4 retro isaiah doernbecher db charty Do You Notice 2012 Nike from so few. The troops and the families will wait for them to return one day and stay home for good.
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