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COMMENTS: Pink Boxers
Winding up its deployment in Afghanistan is a platoon of 20 soldiers based in a mountain outpost in the Korengal Valley. The news media have made Viper Company famous: The New York Times for its front page photograph of an ambushed private joining a firefight in his pink I Love New York boxer shorts; NBC News for its award-winning Tip of the Spear series filed by Richard Engel. Engel concluded his series (previous episodes here, here, here, here and here) by noting that only ten of the original platoon survived the entire eight-month tour: "The rest were either killed, injured or got so sick they had to be evacuated." He also awarded Zachary Boyd, the private, a new pair of underpants.
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