Journalist Greg Jaffe On The Divide Between Soldiers And Civilians

Journalist Greg Jaffe On The Divide Between Soldiers And Civilians
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Members of the 101st Airborne Division march in Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP)

By: Alex Ashlock

We spoke to Washington Post military reporter Greg Jaffe today about the fertilizer being used to make improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. The ammonium nitrate fertilizer is made at two plants in Pakistan and slips easily across the border into Afghanistan, where at a cost of only $40, it’s turned into a deadly weapon.

Jaffe has been covering the military for the last 12 years and besides focusing on the actual fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has also written about the divide between the military and the rest of society, because such a small percentage of Americans have any connection to the military.

Jaffe has been to Fort Hood in Texas, and this week he’ll be visiting Ft. Campbell in Kentucky to work on another story about that gap.
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