From 2005 to 2014, U-T photojournalist Nelvin C. Cepeda traveled regularly to Afghanistan embedded with Marines from Camp Pendleton. He looks back on what it was like seeing the war unfold abroad and at home.
President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that all remaining U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, left Horr, now 32, buoyed by the possibility of finality but with an unavoidable sense of déjà vu.
“We’ve been here before,” said Horr, the director of government affairs for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a national organization that provides resources for and advocates on behalf of post-9/11 veterans.
Parole Denied for Former Marine Wife Convicted in Husband s 1984 Ambush Murder
The metal bars of a jail cell in a U.S. Marine Corps brig. (U.S. Marine Corps/David Murphy)
23 Jan 2021 The San Diego Union-Tribune | By Teri Figueroa
A parole board on Friday denied a bid for parole from a woman who in 1984 convinced five Camp Pendleton Marines to kill her Marine husband, who was ambushed and fatally shot after she lured him to a deserted site.
Laura Ann Troiani, 59, will not be eligible to be considered for parole for another three years following her denial. She remains incarcerated at the California Institute for Women in Chino.