Military men and women who serve overseas encounter dangerous situations and often struggle with separation from family and friends.
The same is true of journalists who embed themselves with soldiers.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch chief photographer J.B. Forbes, who has worked at the newspaper since 1975, and reporter Jesse Bogan recently returned from Afghanistan. They were embedded with about 100 members of the Missouri National Guard’s 1138th Engineer Company, covering and sharing the stories of soldiers who have temporarily left their civilian jobs.