Fighting in Afghanistan: Soldier’s View

Breaking Point, (Baltimore Sun)…David Wood, May 25, 2008, Pg. 15

In the dying sunlight, the day’s heat radiates from a farm compound’s baked adobe walls, which enclose Marines slumped wearily against their rucksacks. Here in southern Afghanistan, where the men of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit are battling Taliban insurgents, life comes in a simple equation: There are men out there who will kill you, unless you kill them first.

First hand account of what it’s like from he Soldier’s perspective.