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• March 9: North County Times (California): Marines build a city to feed, equip troops
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- U.S. military officials are planning a lightning-fast attack with air and land forces to overwhelm any Iraqi defense. CLICK for story...

• March 8: North County Times (California): Bugs an Iraqi enemy, too
  CAMP IWO JIMA, Kuwait ---- Iraq is full of things that can bite you, sting you and kill you ---- almost as fast as a bullet can. CLICK for story...

• March 7: North County Times (California): In the field, there's no birthday cake
  CAMP IWO JIMA, Kuwait ---- One Carlsbad grandfather who couldn't join his family to celebrate his birthday Thursday had a solid excuse: He's getting ready to go to war. CLICK for story...

• March 5: North County Times (California): 120-mile barrier keeps Iraq, Kuwait at arm's length
  KUWAIT -- It's a formidable barrier. It's supposed to be. The demilitarized zone that separates Kuwait and Iraq is all that stands between hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and Iraq. CLICK for story...

• March 4: North County Times (California): USS Nimitz, warships leave San Diego
  KUWAIT CITY ---- It's an odd-looking desert shelter: a sandbag-lined pit about 6 feet deep, covered with an earthen and wooden roof. CLICK for story...

• March 4: North County Times (California): Marines build 'Scud bunkers' - U.S. Embassy repeats warning urging citizens to leave Kuwait
  CORONADO ---- Renae Freeman of Rancho Penasquitos had expected her husband to deploy overseas, but the reality didn't hit her until Monday morning, when the USS Nimitz and two escort ships left home with more than 5,000 sailors on a course for the Persian Gulf, and possibly a key role in U.S. strikes on Iraq. CLICK for story...

• March 3: North County Times (California): Combat familiar ground a generation later
  CAMP PENDLETON ---- The Marine wore a tan camouflage uniform, printed in a 21st-century digital pattern that his Marine Corps recently adopted for the modern battlefield. One set of dog tags hung from his neck, tucked inside a green T-shirt. Another was laced into one of his brown desert combat boots. CLICK for story...

• March 2: North County Times (California): Experienced officers provide leadership to young troops
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- As the Marines here brace for a possible war with Iraq, they often use a common refrain: they'll be fighting for the Marine on their left and the Marine on their right. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 28: North County Times (California): Marines support helping Filipinos fight terrorism
  CAMP COYOTE ---- Half a world away in the desert of Kuwait, several Marines cheered the recent decision to send U.S. ground forces to help Filipino troops fight Muslim extremists. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 28: North County Times (California): Marines get a brand-new rifle
  CAMP COYOTE ---- It's a little heavier than its predecessor, but the new M-16 being distributed to Camp Pendleton Marines stationed here in the Kuwaiti desert will allow the troops to pinpoint and hit their targets with greater precision and at greater distances. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 27: North County Times (California): Kuwait Notebook - What a difference a day makes
  Editor's note: North County Times staff writer Darrin Mortenson and staff photographer Hayne Palmour periodically offer their impressions of Kuwait, where they are covering troops from Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base and Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 26: North County Times (California): From dusk to dawn: Night rises in the Kuwaiti desert
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- The desert has moods at night. Just ask the Marines who've spent the last three weeks in northern Kuwait, waiting and training for war. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 26: North County Times (California): Protests dishearten some troops overseas
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- Some of the Marines kicked the dirt, turned away or cursed the "damned liberals" on hearing news of global anti-war demonstrations. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 25: North County Times (California): Marines get mail, food and a shower
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- After more than three weeks in the desert wearing the same clothes and eating the same prepackaged meals, the guys from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion got some creature comforts this weekend: a hot meal, mail and even their first shower in the field. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 24: North County Times (California): Services offer break from desert monotony
  LIVING SUPPORT AREA FIVE, Kuwait ---- Several men wept, others sat silent as Navy chaplain Bill Devine, straining to be heard above the din of helicopters and other military machinery, asked God to deliver them from war. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 23: North County Times (California): Life in the Kuwait desert: Dust, wind and sun
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- Marine Staff Sgt. Jeff Hickson and his buddies from Camp Pendleton's 5th Infantry Regiment. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 20: North County Times (California): Chickens arrive to help the Marines
  CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait ---- At the edge of this desolate no-man's land just 25 miles from the Iraqi border, U.S. troops on the front line Wednesday welcomed some unlikely allies: chickens. CLICK for story...

• Feb. 20: North County Times (California): Reservists pack up to pack out
  CAMP PENDLETON ---- They were activated to full duty in February 2002 for homeland defense and spent the past year training in urban, desert and mountain warfare, sharpening their hand-to-hand combat skills and firing their weapons. CLICK for story...

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