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Pineland, a fictional country created five decades ago as a staging ground for a military training exercise, is comprised of 16 counties in central North Carolina and is populated by regular Americans who, eight times a year, help soldiers train for real wars.
BURBANK — For hundreds of local residents who turned out for Memorial Day ceremonies across Glendale, Burbank and La Cañada Flintridge, the hours of tribute — complete with bagpipes, benedictions, names of fallen service members, patriotic hymns and roses — serve as an annual exercise in remembrance.
Eds: Adds material on killing of soldier in Pineland in 2002.
Eds: A longer version also moved.
Good morning! Happy Fourth of July! No rain today or Sunday! No rain for the Fourth of July parade in Downe Township!
At a former Soviet training base in the town of Rish Khvor, a few miles out of Kabul, American Green Berets are working to mentor and support Afghan Special Force soldiers code-named Commandos.
JANE LASSAR/SPECIAL TO SUN NEWS Bernadette Swancer had conflicting emotions. She was happy that her son was home for Christmas, but she also knew Andy was returning to Iraq for another tour of duty in the U. S. Air...
Better equipped, better trained, better paid and reputedly incorruptible, the Afghan Commando is meant to be everything the Afghan National Army is not. Competition to join is grueling, and the reward is battle against deadly insurgent forces.
SHARANA, Afghanistan — 1st Lt. Chip Heidt, his wire spectacles sliding down his wet nose in the hot midday sun, was walking with a purpose amid a stretch of the 20-foot-high mud walls in this Afghan town opposite Pakistan's lawless Waziristan tribal area. Heidt, 25, a scion of the Scripps newspaper family in Cincinnati, was on a foot patrol to gather local intelligence.
In Defense of Slow Reading Has the relentless cacophony of Google culture made us dumb? An Internet junkie picks up a book and finds out.
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