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I was very impressed by this piece, a very powerful kind of you-are-there journalism. 

"After completing two tours of duty as a Marine combat correspondent in Iraq, I traveled to Afghanistan as a civilian war correspondent in April 2012. The following story features a spur-of-the-moment mission that saw one Marine injured and more than 20 Taliban fighters killed."

 Here's the story. Here are the photographs 

Michael Edward Lenert

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