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Image: Major Shannon Cole
  Saving lives
Photographer Erin Trieb spends six weeks with the U.S. Army's busiest trauma center in Afghanistan.

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U.S. General: ‘A lot of leaders are hopeful’
Nov. 30: Gen. William Caldwell, former spokesman for Gen. David Petraeus in Baghdad, offers his perspective on the current troop surge and plans to command training of Afghan troops. NBC’s Jim Maceda reports.

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Image:  Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province
  Front lines
Soldiers are fighting to suppress the Taliban and win over the Afghan people.

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