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Northern Fallujah - Entry Control Point
It was a Friday. A holy day for the majority of the inhabitants of our fair city. It was around the time it started getting disgustingly...

Ben Fortier
Nov 7, 20233 min read
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Made of Granite (The Death of Cpl. King)
Tears suddenly rolled down my right cheek. It felt as if a channel of magma was tunneling through the granite my face was supposed to be...

Ben Fortier
Aug 10, 20231 min read
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Stories from the Jolan District
It was a nighttime operation. The only mission was to look for contact. We would find it, just not in the way I had hoped.

Ben Fortier
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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Stories from the al-Andalas District (The "Pizza Slice")
No one cared that I had only slept five hours on the first day of our cycle conducting operations from the train station.

Ben Fortier
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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The Witch of War: Lessons from the Global War on Terrorism Campaigns
My online social media accounts were filled with praise for our troops (particularly the Marine Corps) for hunting down and killing insurgen

Ben Fortier
Feb 1, 20237 min read
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