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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 things they’d never have been able to say to their families. Bing’s mother thought they’d make...

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 army's more professional than i've ever seen. >> reporter: however, we heard concerns about the iraqi forces from some of colonel coffman's own men who live and work side by side with iraqis. how ready do you think these guys are? >> i think that they're a lot more ready than they were a couple of years ago but they've still got a ways to go. >> reporter: here is how some ir...