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James Blake Miller (born July 10, 1984) is a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, who fought in the Second Battle of Fallujah and was dubbed the "Marlboro Man" (and the "Marlboro Marine") after an iconic photograph of him with a cigarette was published in newspapers in the United States in 2004.
Scott Richard Studenmund (June 26, 1989 – June 9, 2014) was a United States Army Special Forces soldier. [7] [4] He was killed in action in the 2014 Gaza Valley airstrike in a friendly fire incident that took place in Zabul Province, Afghanistan on June 9, 2014. [6] [8] Studenmund was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. [4] [9]
The World Entertainment War song "Marlboro Man, Jr." begins, "The Marlboro Man is dead Long live the Marlboro Man! In our dreams he remains the hero of a thousand billboards The ultimate salesman..." The 1997 Incubus album S.C.I.E.N.C.E. features the head of the Marlboro Man, as portrayed by the singer's father in the 1960s. [44]
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In October 2007, he returned to Afghanistan for his second tour as weapons sergeant for his team. [4] Miller was killed in combat with the Taliban in Afghanistan on January 25, 2008. His unit was conducting combat operations near the village of Barikowt, Nari District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
A 15-man rescue force was sent from the Turkish school, a base in Mazar-e-Sharif, made up of 9 Green Berets, and eight men from Z Squadron Special Boat Service. Northern Alliance reinforcements also arrived, sending fighters and a T-55 tank into the compound, where they started firing into the prisoner-controlled area. Several other television ...
The video caused outrage in Afghanistan, the Middle East and across the world. [30] [31] An Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops in Afghanistan and wounded another eight seriously in a fragging incident said that he did it because of the American Marines who urinated on bodies in the video.
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