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COMMENTS: Promotion to Kandahar
NBC's veteran war correspondent Jim Maceda demonstrated a long-term payoff from embedded reporting with a military unit. When John Nicholson was a USArmy colonel in 2006, Maceda reported with his brigade along the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan--here he is in Asadabad in November of that year. By the end of that tour Nicholson's brigade had suffered 45 combat fatalities, a further 350 wounded. Now Nicholson has won his stars and is in charge of NATO forces in Kandahar Province in the south. "This is the very heart of Taliban country," Maceda announced, as he hitched a ride with the new general, who is expecting 20,000 reinforcements under his command. "His orders are as clear as they are daunting: start winning the war."
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