Basetrack program canceled

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Lisa Mullins speaks with Teru Kuwayama of Basetrack, a media project following a US Marine battalion’s deployment in Afghanistan. Basetrack’s embedded journalists were unexpectedly asked to leave the battalion. Download MP3

Online project follows US Marines in Afghanistan

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with photographer Teru Kuwayama. He started Basetrack, a multimedia project that is following a battalion of Marines throughout their deployment in Afghanistan. Marco also speaks with Jennifer Green, mother of one of the Marines in the battalion, who is following her son’s unit through the Basetrack project. (Photo:Staff Sgt. William Geeson) Download MP3

Pacific Island of Tinian awaits the Marines

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The Pacific Island of Tinian has played an outsized role in US military history. Now, as a US territory, it’s about to take on a new role – as the site of shooting ranges, when some 8,000 US Marines and their dependents move from Okinawa to Guam by 2014. Many Guamanians aren’t wild about the US military expansion, but Tinian welcomes it. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad visited the island. (Photo: Mary Kay Magistad) Download MP3

• Photo gallery
• Guam people ponder their identity
• Mary Kay’s journal from the Island of Yap

Guam awaits the Marines

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The population of Guam is expected to increase by 50 % in the next four years. That’s because the U.S. military plans to redeploy thousands of Marines and their families from the Japanese island of Okinawa. The move could bring an economic boom to the Pacific island but it threatens to strain Guam’s infrastructure as Akiko Fujita reports. Download MP3 (Photo: Johan Burati)

• BBC profile of Guam

Acronyms report

The World’s Aaron Schachter decodes the military jargon he hears everyday while embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan. Listen

US tries to win over Afghans

The World’s Aaron Schachter reports on the efforts of US Marines in Afghanistan to get Afghans to take sides against the Taliban. It’s one of the latest strategies for fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan. Listen