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Army to Shoot Live Pigs to Save Wounded Soldiers Lives

cmetzger4 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:30:08 EDT

Despite opposition by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Army is moving forward with its plan to shoot live pigs and treat their gunshot wounds in a medical trauma exercise at Schofield Barracks for soldiers headed to Iraq.

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Quiet Iraq streets leave soldiers yearning for Afghanistan

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:19:02 EDT

Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he's missing the real war -- in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.

Channel: News Tags: Iraq Afghanistan war fighting quiet