Below is the Marine intelligence assessment written by Col. Peter Devlin of the U.S. Marine Corps in August 2006 and made public by The Washington Post in a story published in November 2006.
BOSTON - Medical costs for U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could range from $350 billion to $662 billion over the next 40 years, as soldiers survive injuries that would have killed them in past conflicts, according to a Harvard University study.
Grayling High School graduate Joe Zelek is having bittersweet feelings about being home for the start of 2007 since he would rather be with his fellow Marines serving on the battlefield in Iraq.
Iraq - The U.S. military drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has been battling to take over much of the capital city as American forces are trying to secure it.
Stewart, Minn. Jonathan Schulze tried to live with the nightmares and grief he brought home after serving as a U.S. Marine in Iraq, but it overwhelmed him.
AL ANBAR PROVINCE — U.S. Marines here recently spent nearly three weeks seeking and finding significant traces of insurgent activity in a stretch of 40 km. along the Euphrates River Valley.
CAMP FALLUJAH – Regimental Combat Team 6 successfully conducted a relief-in-place with Regimental Combat Team 5 and assumed responsibility for an area of operations in eastern Al Anbar province Wednesday.
AL ASAD, Iraq – Regimental Combat Team 2, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., officially assumed responsibility for western Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Saturday.
