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USS Anchorage to be commissioned

...for two weeks but has been cut to four days.The first USS Anchorage was commissioned in 1969 and saw action in Vietnam and Iraq. When it was decommissioned in 2003, the Navy said it was the most decorated ship on the West Coast.The crew will get a liberty...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-05-02/uss-anchorage-to-be-commissioned
News
Snowmobilers help disabled veterans

...insurgent tossed two grenades into his tank in Iraq. Tschida wears a prosthetic hook on his...businesses.Callihan was a Marine in the Iraq War. In 2001, he took four bullets...Cornett suffered a severe neck injury in Iraq when the truck he was riding in rammed...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2013-04-18/snowmobilers-help-disabled-veter
Outdoors
Overcoming obstacles

...fact there's a whole different portion to combat," said McClain, who has been deployed three times to Afghanistan, once to Iraq and twice to the Balkans. Through a unique workout program called CrossFit, McClain began working with other wounded soldiers...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-04-06
News
From mortars to mounts

...Kalifornsky Beach Road. "But when you get back, you realize it's not normal." He was mortared 40 out of the 60 days he spent in Iraq, he said. But after being hit, and after 20 years and four months in the U.S. Air Force, the 42-year-old Soldotna...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-04-11/reel-deal-taxidermy
News

...cannot accept such maneuvers from the secretary-general of the U.N, taking into consideration the negative role played in Iraq which paved the way for the American invasion."It added, however, that Syria is ready to grant inspectors access to Khan...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-04-08-0
News
War veterans take on ice climbing

...added Mike Kirby, an Army Ranger who did three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.Eleven veterans - 10 men and one woman...mountain can turn on you instantly."Brandon served three tours in Iraq with the U.S. Army. He fought in the violent Sadr City...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2013-03-07/war-veterans-take-on-ice-climbin
Outdoors
Is BP cutting production to blackmail Alaska?

...percent. Click on the link below to see the actual $1.90 bid terms executed between BP and Iraq and eighteen more similar bids for the right to produce Iraq's oil: http://media.ft.com/cms/b09af87a-2522-11df-a189-00144feab49a...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/2013-03-05/is-bp-cutting-production-to-black
Opinion
Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal

...Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive...whether the U.S. would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011. He never mentioned the tense and ultimately fruitless negotiations with Iraq over whether to keep several thousand U...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2011-10-21/obama-announces-total-iraq-troop-wit
News

...veterans living in the U.S. today. Baskis was on duty in Iraq in 2008 and lost his sight when a roadside bomb exploded. Later...blinded veterans who recently lost their sight in operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. His story is just one example of a blinded veteran...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/dispatch/2013-02-04-7
Dispatch
Movie review: Seeing 'Red' again

...describes the guerrilla M.O. thusly: "When I was over in Iraq, we were the good guys. We kept order; kept the peace. Over...the heroes of this film with the terrorists we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Watching the Wolverines detonate car bombs...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/arts-entertainment/2012-12-05/movie-review-seeing-re
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