They are all a part of the list of countries where the U.S. Military is currently deployed. This is from GlobalPolicy.org. They got the information from the Department of Defense. Note the information is from about 3 years ago, but I don’t have up to date access to the DoD, and if I did the information certainly wouldn’t get posted here. Nevertheless I’m pretty sure this is a fairly accurate representation of the U.S. Military throughout the world.
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I recently wrote a post saying that you should be proud to be an American. This post received several negative comments so I thought I would explore the idea of patriotism a little deeper. After some discussions with family and friends, I discovered two things. The first thing is there are several reasons why I am patriotic. The second is that there are legitimate reasons as to why some people aren’t patriotic.

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