Posted on Mar 1, 2018
Coming Home: How three Marines are returning to normal life
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In our new series, Coming Home, we follow the lives of our nation's bravest as they return from war. More than 15,000 American service members are stationed in Afghanistan more than 16 years after the U.S. involvement there began.
Coming Home: How three Marines are returning to normal life
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Marines
Afghanistan
Deployment
Helmand Province
Posted 7 y ago
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What's normal life? Hard to come home and shift gears into "normal life". Anyone miss the adrenaline and excitement?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
TSgt David L. Adrenaline? Excitement? Hell No. Miss the Ready Access to the Biggest, Fanciest, Most Expensive Technology. Most Definitely. "Need to Know" "I Need to Know Everything Since I am Providing Your Communications Supports" COMINT, SIGINT, ELINT, COUNTER-INTEL They all had to Include Me in the Mix. 25 Digraphs, Trigraphs after My Name for the Programs I had Already Been Read Into and Always followed by "Communicators Access" General Catch All. I've Read PEO Presidents Eyes Only Messages and the CIA, NSA, DIA Daily Intelligence Brief was My Morning Newspaper.
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TSgt David L.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Different deal altogether. The Intel I read was off of the SIPRNET but besides Predator videos all we cared about was IED intel to track trigger and ordnance trends for our cats down range. Throw on a bomb suit and tackle a roadside IED or VBIED if you want a wake up call. I still don't drink coffee. Never needed it.
We had some pretty cool toys as well.
We had some pretty cool toys as well.
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