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00:00award-winning filmmakers Stephen Barber and Matthew Housley along with producer
00:13Tamara Henry bring you the world's most dangerous paper route never-before-seen
00:19images from legendary Stars and Stripes military newspaper don't worry about the
00:24bullet with your name on it worry about those flying around that say to whom it
00:27may concern I was a member of the West Point class of 1974 commissioned in the
00:35infantry as a second lieutenant and Stars and Stripes is something we look
00:38forward to receiving it had a lot of news content that was not available
00:43elsewhere Stars and Stripes was part of our daily existence in a way the
00:47hometown newspaper of the US military I think it's the most important newspaper
00:53media organization in the world I had a choice between going to Armed Forces
00:57Network or to Stars and Stripes and I picked Stars and Stripes it was the top
01:02job in the top journalism job in the in the US military so everybody read it in
01:07the field and particularly people were hungry for and there were no punches
01:11pulled we knew what was going on in the States we read about it every day it's a
01:15great publication with a great history I feel like it gives me an opportunity to
01:19tell some powerful stories join Vanilla Fire Productions as they head downrange
01:25to Afghanistan Iraq and Kuwait to follow the world's most dangerous paper route I
01:32was the first woman actually to ever go out there before you know it this tear
01:36gas flying and there's rocks flying and there's bullets flying these people put
01:40their lives on the line continuously