General Article After I was hit by a grenade, my biggest concerns were for my family

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By Nick Garland

In early 2008, as a young officer, I was set to deploy to Afghanistan. It was the culmination of a year and a half of intense training and I was primed to go.

For my family and friends, it was a stressful period of limbo as they wa...

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