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An excerpt from 'The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley'

If you have a modern .308 Win. rifle, you should be fine firing any modern commercial .308 Win. or 7.62 NATO ammo.

"To get it air-worthy in this short time is nothing short of amazing."

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

So many movies get military life wrong, but a few get *it* right.

I'm still kind of sore.

It's still unclear whether the robot dogs will be spayed or neutered.

Diseases are evil.

Uh, sir, that's from Duffel Blog.

Rest in peace.

"I was really struck by the fact that they predicted the F-35 getting hacked."

The policy takes sexual harassment investigations out of a soldier's direct chain of command.

The deadline is 36 days from now.

Here's what the film gets right.

“I want to know where we are,” Cashe's sister said. “The importance of today did not pass me by.”

Forever War.

"If that’s what you really want to do, all you have to do is work hard, work out, be mentally fit, and just go for it.”

That's not a thing.

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Straight out of a bad Tom Clancy novel.