Articles Archive for April 2011
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Editor’s note: Army Lt. Matt Spartz, a lifelong Lombard resident, was deployed to Afghanistan a year ago with the 101st Airborne Division. A 2008 journalism graduate of University of Illinois, he is submitting occasional reports for the Daily Herald.
Last week, six more soldiers were killed in one of our deployment’s hardest battles.
This week, the government looks set on losing a battle with compromise, probably resulting in a freeze of government — and in turn, military — paychecks.
Imagine telling our boys before last week that …
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Last week we had a hasty visit from the top of the food chain when GEN Petraeus stopped by for the standard “grip n’ grin” session with ABU company. After our battalion finished closing another base here in the Pech he flew in to solidify our reputation as the biggest BAMF’s in Afghanistan.
Here my CO gets a COIN from the bosses bosses bosses boss…I think… He gave out coins to guys for various things, including having three years or more deployed. One of our guys was even in the 101st …
