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The purpose of Advance Camp is to evaluate cadets on their potential as future Army Second Lieutenants, the first rank of a U.S. Army Officer.

Be taken over by the american military, by a group of u.s. marines. one of those marines sent to perhaps the most dangerous place in afghanistan, at one of the most dangerous times in the war, one of those men was dr. thomas shuman. you see him there on the left. over the course of his long service in afghanistan, he served seven astonishingly difficult and intense months in sangin. he says during his seven months in sangin, 25 marines he served with died there in that one town. more than 200 others were wounded. he recounted one particularly brutal day in sangin to "the chicago sun-times" a d...

Be taken over by the american military, by a group of u.s. marines. one of those marines sent to perhaps the most dangerous place in afghanistan, at one of the most dangerous times in the war, one of those marines was this man. his name was dr. thomas schulman. you see him there on the left. over the course of his long service in afghanistan, he served seven astonishingly difficult and intense months in sangin. he says during his seven months in sangin, 25 marines he served with died there in that one town. more than 200 others were wounded. he recounted one particularly brutal day in sangin t...

Earned a purple heart. he told the son times quote my squad leader stepped on an improvised explosive device and he lost his leg. i was blown up. and then my platoon sergeant was blown up in that same blast on that same day. it was one of a couple of times i was blown up on that point appointment. another marine who served in sangin said, they put up a map on the city when they got there, and that one marines vivid description said it looks like someone had sneezed blood although for the map, because the mob was covered in red dots, and every red dot on the map marked a place where the taliban...

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