
ON★PATROL Check out the newest holiday video from the USO in Basra, Iraq. Incredible. Thanks for all you do this holiday season and Happy New Year!
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Holidays are different for our troops stationed far from home. Let them know they're at home in our hearts by making a tax deductible donation to the USO today: http://www.uso.org

ON★PATROL This is what the USO will soon bring to Kandahar, Afganistan! Also be sure to check out Chuck Norris' message to the troops at www.uso.org.
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For many of our deployed troops stationed overseas, there can be a striking sense of loss when they miss the big and small moments in their children’s lives.

ON★PATROL From AFPS: How they serve with pride in Afghanistan.
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HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Dec. 28, 2009 Marines of 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion are serving in southern Afghanistan with pride, despite the hardship of being away from their families during the holidays.

ON★PATROL What is it like? First LT Jessica Dawson reflects on coming home after deployment.
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One of the new lieutenants asked me how many casualties we took this year. I didn't want to give him a number, I wanted to tell him about the names.

ON★PATROL When soldiers return from deployment, families rejoice.
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Christmas came a day late for the families of nearly 300 soldiers returning to Fort Drum in New York on Saturday from a one-year deployment in Afghanistan.

ON★PATROL Thanks to Norad for letting us know that Santa is currently making his way through Eastern Europe .... Don't believe it? Check out the video!

ON★PATROL Want to send a message to the troops this Christmas Eve? Do so right here!
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Merry Christmas to all the men an woman deployed to the middle east! You guys are always in my thoughts and prayers, and thank you for all that you do o keep us free and out of harms way. Words could never express how much I appreciate you all.

ON★PATROL Thanks to those who serve and those who serve them!
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 24, 2009 As the rest of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport bustled with holiday travelers yesterday, its USO Lounge offered military travelers -- many returning home from overseas deployments -- a welcome sanctuary of solace.

ON★PATROL New updates on the blog on who's spreading holiday cheer this Christmas Eve!
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As soldiers going to the front line up at airports and families get ready to weather long deployments, Army SGT Jon E. Dougherty writes what those at the front know to be all too true: “That in war, there are no holidays.”

ON★PATROL Check out reporter Michael Yon's online magazine for Brian Williams' and Gary Sinise's message to the troops this holiday season.
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Michael Yon Online Magazine dispatches from the frontline of Iraq and Afghanistan

ON★PATROL For those serving our country, there's no break this holiday season. Let's thank those who are keeping vigilant!
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ON★PATROL Check out how many are spreading cheer at the frontlines this holiday season!
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“Operation Caroling,” an award for service to the troops, and a message from “a great American” are among the things spreading cheer at the front this holiday season.

ON★PATROL The 172nd is flying kids to the North Pole this Christmas! Well, sort of, but they are making dreams come true.
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At 6 p.m. tonight, around 60 children who live around Jackson, Mississippi, will load into a C-17 Globemaster III and rumble down the 172nd Airlift Wing’s airstrip and “take off.”

ON★PATROL Capturing a "Soldier's Christmas" from what we believe is a former Marine. Does anyone know who originally wrote this poem?
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Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S. service men andwomen for our being able to celebrate these festivities. Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

ON★PATROL Check out this fantastic story out of Afghanistan.
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NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2009 The first exclusive Afghan National Police Women’s Police Corps Training Center was established in the heart of Jalalabad here Dec. 5.



















