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Troops heading out for the final tours of the Afghanistan war find a new uncertainty

The Washington Post Greg Jaffe | Photos by Matt McClain 1 day ago   Fort Campbell - Fort Campbell, KY Fort Campbell - Fort Campbell, KY To get to a place where the Afghanistan war is something not yet forgotten, drive from civilian America onto this 164-square-mile military base. Pass the armed guards who check for military identification and the four-story Warrior Transition building that houses wounded soldiers, and keep going into one of the base’s residential neighborhoods of identical two-story houses. Inside one of those homes, Lt. Col. Chris Hossfeld is in the family room reviewing a video from his first combat tour 10 years ago. “Watch right there,” he says, pointing at a sandbagged window on the second floor of his old combat outpost in Iraq. There’s a spurt of gunfire from the spot where one of Hossfeld’s soldiers, Pfc. Oscar Sanchez, 19, was standing guard duty. A split second later a dump truck, containing more than 1,500 pounds of explosives and spee...