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We’ve told you about the Jacksonville-based Navy ships, helicopters and crews involved in combat operations over the past year. And, as the US Navy continues to serve in the Red Sea, engaging with Iranian-backed Houthi missiles and drones, we wanted to take a closer look at the Jacksonville-based assets involved.

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Plus sub-saharan africa. it is not just the fight against isis that is affected. it is global. the chinese are advancing territorial claims in the south china sea. north korea and iran are both advancing nuclear weapons and icbm programs. hezbollah and hamas are being rearmed by iran and and aggressive against israel and vladmir putin is consolidating hold on crimea and eastern ukraine and conducting combat ops in syria. this veto is precisely the wrong thing to do. vladmir putin is playing bara...

>> the iraq vets who now fighting on the battlefield in afghanistan and the feeling was that the appropriate time to have a national new york-style ticker tape parade was the time when combat troops were back home. >> to be clear, the iraq war is over. the idea is to hold a parade to mark the end of that specific war. not to mark the end of war altogether. military officer a decorated combat veteran of iraq and afghanistan wrote to me today on the subject to say this. if they are waiting until c...

He was on npr yesterday. >> the iraq vets who now fighting on the battlefield in afghanistan and the feeling was that the appropriate time to have a national new york-style ticker tape parade was the time when combat troops were back home. >> to be clear, the iraq war is over. the idea is to hold a parade to mark the end of that specific war. not to mark the end of war altogether. military officer a decorated combat veteran of iraq and afghanistan wrote to me today on the subject to say this. if...

Fighting on the battlefield in afghanistan and the feeling was that the appropriate time to have a national new york-style ticker tape parade was the time when combat troops were back home. >> to be clear, the iraq war is over. the idea is to hold a parade to mark the end of that specific war. not to mark the end of war altogether. military officer a decorated combat veteran of iraq and afghanistan wrote to me today on the subject to say this. if they are waiting until combat ops are over in afg...

Place. there are said to be 15,000 u.s., u.n., and afghan troops fighting to take the city of marjah. and so, in one week, we get a stark example of the two afghan wars. the more or less conventional combat ops, the war taking place, this operation, and the cloak and dagger stuff. my next guest is well versed in both. ken robinson is a former u.s. military intelligence officer with 20-plus years in special ops and experience in special ops. ken, thank you for being with us. first of all, the sig...