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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 01 > Training Afghans as bullets fly

Training Afghans as bullets fly

One small base captures U.S. hopes for country’s future

By C.J. Chivers / The Bulletin
May 1, 2009

FIREBASE VIMOTO, Afghanistan — Three stone houses and a cluster of sandbagged bunkers cling to a slope above the Korangal Valley, forming an oval perimeter roughly 75 yards long. The oval is reinforced with timber and ringed with concertina wire.

An Afghan flag flutters atop a tower....

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