Under Fire, from Iraq to Afghanistan

June 14, 2018 00:48:19
Under Fire, from Iraq to Afghanistan
The Spear
Under Fire, from Iraq to Afghanistan

Jun 14 2018 | 00:48:19

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Show Notes

This episode of The Spear features Brian Humphreys, a former US Marine Corps officer who shares stories from two deployments. In the first, to Iraq’s Anbar province,the ambush he describes is indicative of the tough deployments the Marine Corps was facing around 2004 and 2005. Later, in Afghanistan, Brian was tasked with training Afghan soldiers, and his experience is something many veterans of our post-9/11 wars can relate to: long periods of tedious work punctuated by intense, violent, and sometimes chaotic combat.

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