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The Atlantic
April 13, 2018
A sergeant who deployed to the Korengal Valley, in Afghanistan, told me that by the end of his deployment, he had purposely adopted a defensive posture, sacrificing mission for safety at every opportunity he could. This is reminiscent of what one officer said of the later stages of the Vietnam War: “The gung-ho attitude thatÃâà...
The Seattle Times
April 1, 2018
U.S. soldiers are seen through night-vision goggles in the Korengal Valley in 2009. With night-vision devices now in Taliban hands, American commanders may opt to lift restrictions on supplying them to Afghan government forces. (TYLER HICKS/NYT). U.S. commanders have been forced to considerÃâà...
Politico
March 5, 2018
Some cite his earlier experience with the deadly Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, where he first committed troops in 2006 when he was a colonel. Dozens of American soldiers from successive units were killed in a valley that, to some, came to symbolize the futility of American counterinsurgencyÃâà...
fox6now.com
August 30, 2017
KORENGAL VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 27: U.S. soldiers board an Army Chinook transport helicopter after it brought fresh soldiers and supplies to the Korengal Outpost on October 27, 2008 in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. The military spends huge effort and money to fly in supplies toÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
August 22, 2017
KORENGAL VALLEY, AFG - OCTOBER 27: U.S. soldiers board an Army Chinook transport helicopter after it brought fresh soldiers and supplies to the Korengal Outpost October 27, 2008. The military spends huge effort and money to fly in supplies to soldiers of the 1-26 Infantry based in the Korengal ValleyÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 27, 2016
The Korengal being what it was, common sense would dictate the A.N.A. would send us one of their best Platoons. Decidedly not the case. We'd often get a Platoon fresh out of basic. We had a Brigadier (1-Star) General come down to visit Phoenix once. He asked us a lot of questions and then asked if weÃâà...
Boston Globe
June 20, 2014
We saw the Korengal Valley in northeastern Afghanistan the way the men saw it — as a landscape of beauty and sudden death — but also from a macro view that took in the conflicted sympathies of local villagers and the whole complicated calculus of America's global mission. The film conveyed aÃâà...
RollingStone.com
June 2, 2014
From 2007 to 2008, writer, seasoned war journalist and filmmaker Sebastian Junger went on patrol, survived an IED attack, endured firefights and boredom, and bonded with the soldiers of Camp Restrepo, a remote outpost deep in the Korengal Valley in the northeast region of Afghanistan. Embedded withÃâà...
New York Times
May 29, 2014
How boring is a soldier's life in the mountains of Afghanistan during the lulls between firefights? A serviceman interviewed in “Korengal,” the sequel to the 2010 documentary “Restrepo,” recalls that one day he and his Army buddies spent “five or six hours” arguing who would win in a fight between GeorgeÃâà...
KTEP
December 31, 1999
In an interview at StoryCorps, Roman, now 32, tells his friend Dan Marek, 40, about a special delivery from home that brought him immense comfort as a young soldier in the throes of conflict. At the time, Davis was serving in the U.S. Army as a human intelligence collector stationed in the Korengal Valley ofÃâà...
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