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“The Last Platoon” from Bing West, Outstanding Novel of Afghanistan Share This: In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine  Bing West was born to be a Marine. When he was just two years old, his two uncles were in the Marine Corps and fought on Guadalcanal. Later, his family allowed a baseball team of Marines to use the attic of their Dorchester, Massachusetts home as a kind of clubhouse.  There they’d be able to talk among themselves about ...

Last 36 hours. lieutenant colonel ross kaufmann, a charismatic commander, echoed the white house, pointing out the iraqis have been in charge of security in mosul for about a year now pthi, wheein here in 2010 is the iraqi armys more professional than ive ever seen. >> reporter: however, we heard concerns about the iraqi forces from some of colonel coffmans own men who live and work side by side with iraqis. how ready do you think these guys are? >> i think that theyre a lot more ready than they...