pretty cool quarters! what that on your hand, is it some kind of code for?

Ah nice! I love you sunglasses Cooper! Very chic indeed. Stay safe in Afghanistan dude.

I look forward to your reporting this week. Please be safe.

i hope to see you in iran after it come free of this nasty goverment,please keep up the good work,khoda negahdar hameh shoma bashad(god be with you and look after you)

All I can say is Semper Fi!!!! You Marines are so brave it's mind boggling. Thank you Anderson Cooper and your awesome news crew for telling it like it is, and doing everything that you possibly can to get all the information there is. The photos are truly humbling!
Thank you for all that you do......I mean all of you women & men out there news or military.......or even civilian.

COME HOME SAFE!! WE NEED YOU HERE IN THE STATES.

Great Story, Pictures, and Reporting. Can't wait for the coverage tonight. Hope everyone is safe and sound. You're all in my Prayers.

You do what you do best cover the other side.

God bless our troops and Anderson Cooper. May The Lord be a hedge of protection around them and bring all of them home to their families.

Keep safe Anderson!! Listen to the military while you are there. Some people think they can do what they want while they are traveling, but the military know what to do to keep you safe. Tell them that they are all in our thoughts & prayers!!

Thanks for the run down Charlie!! Can't wait to see the reports tonight and all week from Afghanistan. I hope that Sharpie "tattoo" is not permanent! LOL Hope you, Cooper and the crew stay safe over there!

Cindy..Ga.

Wow..cant wait to check out the coverage for this

This is why so many people respect Anderson. He is dedication to his profession and to his viewers. Stay safe, Anderson, our prayers are with all of you.

Everyone, BE SAFE!!

God Bless you and your crew. You are all brave. Stay Safe ...

Please be safe Anderson and crew!

Thank you for going where (and or when) others only go for publicity purposes. When you and your team report, we know its the honest and bare truth. Thank you and keep safe....................looking forward o your reports!

Very excited to watch your coverage tonight. I'm so proud to be a 360 viewer. You guys are awesome, as are our soldiers. Thank you a thousand times for covering this. Stay safe.

Impressive photos! Thanks!
Very interesting the marking of the logistics team with the initials of destination on hands.

Be careful!

Give Travis Dofelmier big hugs from family at home if you should run into him over there in Afgahanistan!!!

Best of luck Cooper and come home safe.....

Man, i miss being with the Marines....Semper Fi Anderson, u know wherever u go they got u covered, hoorah!!

Looking forward to all of your reports. We can't remember enough the troops who are putting their lives on the line everyday to help not only the US, but the Afghan people to live their lives free of fear, esp. the women and girls. Please be safe and return so that you all can continue to report on these kinds of stories that we need to see.

"The Marines are confident they can do it. "I love this belief' it says it all. I'm confident they can do it also. God watch over them.

God bless our troops and Anderson be safe

That's a great look there Anderson – sunglasses and sharpie. Looks like its going to be a good week of coverage. Looking forward to it.

That wooden bench does not look comfortable!

Nice pics. Reporting in style! I too wonder what is on your hand? Remindes me of the carnival or fair.

Once again Anderson is the best.....stay safe....

Be safe!

My Husband was a Marine..He enlisted when he was 17...He was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart..One of his men wrote a book called the Hobo Marine, which he mentions him often. There is something very Noble about Marines, he never talked about it much, but I knew he was very proud to have been a Marine..I ,of course will be watching your show. I love the fact you do such superior reporting and you can be so silly and fun with Kelly Ripa.. Thanks p.s you have a great laugh...

BE SAFE..

I pray for our military men and women in their fight to free the Afghan people from the constant dark cloud of oppression which is the Taliban. God Bless you all. Thank you Anderson and team for the reports and photos. See you tonight on 360.

Always look forward to a report from AC and the crew on location. You guys are part adventurer, part storyteller, and part crazy. Thanks for paying a visit to the guys and gals out in the sand and for bringing us a little snippet of the life/times from a world that most of us can't even begin to imagine. Stay safe & keep your head down!

Be safe over there to all of you., come home safe to your family and friends, ESPECIALLY to all the MILITARY personnel thats over therefor months and year.GOD BLESS YOU ALL !!!!!!

God Bless all our troops! Semper Fi!! Tell them we always pray for them and want all of them to come home safely especially my brither!!

This is what Anderson Cooper does to bring us up front news!

Say hi to my marine for me!

Say hello to my son LCPL Crumbacker with the 1/5 in NAWA.
Semper Fi!!!

Hope you can give a shout out to our son and the marines at 1/5 -Charlie, 3rd Platoon.

Awesome Anderson and crew!!! Thank you so much for providing this coverage. Please tell each and everyone of our troops you encounter how much their service to our country is appreciated. If you encounter a medic add a hug....I pray for the safety and protection of each and everyone of them every day. I am praying for you and your teams safety as well.

Thank you to all our soldiers serving around the world and their families; also to Anderson and your team bringing home their stories. God Bless!

Stay safe and may God protect the troops as well as you Anderson and Dr Sanjay and the TV crews. You all do a wonderful job for our country.

Awesome! I've been looking forward to this all weekend. Keep safe AC360 crew. And of course, our troops are always in our hearts and minds.

If you happen to meet my son Griffin Pirtle with the 1/5 Bravo unit , tell him his family is proud of him and hope to see him soon,

Please be safe and I will pray for you and your crew and all our armed forces, in Afghanistan and around the world. Love your reporting.

Be safe Anderson! Your mpther is not the only one who worries about you. Thank you for your excellent reporting!

Stay safe Anderson. We'll be tuning in this week/

Please say hello to my son Josh. He is there with the 1/5 out of Camp Pendelton. He and his fellow soldiers are brave, strong, and are my heroes! Thanks for doing this story!

Love your reporting, but please stay safe. That includes you, your colleagues & crew, and all the troops... Please make sure they know that politics notwithstanding, there's no one back home who isn't fully supportive of those on the front lines.

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please do take care of yourself and be careful Cooper.

Anderson, you are one of the best. I admire you!!!

Thank you for doing this coverage Anderson.....my husband is a Navy Corpsman with this group.......so thank you. I look forward to your coverage and the world getting a glimpse of what our troops are doing for the US. I pray they know they are not forgotten....God Bless you for doing this and most defenitely God bless our troops...we love you!!

Hey cool pics...If you can get some frontline pics..please post it...Take care and be safe..cheers!!!

Mr. Cooper,

Just wanted to say that it was a pleasure to fly you out here in Afghanistan in our helicopter. I hope you have a safe stay out here.

God bless all our troops and Anderson!

Anderson – Stay Safe to you and your crew. Love Anderson360. You're the best!

Thank you so much for reporting on this. My son is one of the Marines there now.

This report brings it home for everyone!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for going over there and showing everyone how bad it really is. My husband is over there right now fighting with 1/5. Stay safe, I will be watching everynight.

My husband is at Leatherneck as well. I told him to keep an eye out for you. Last deployment he saw Geraldo and made some funny comments about his hair and mustache. It's always fun to hear the guys coverage, of your coverage.

thanks anderson, my son is stationed in camp leatherneck, thanks cnn, thank you anderson and your crew , I now know the conditions in which all those MARINES are living in, GOD bless America and all of our MARINES out there!

Anderson my grandson is a L/CPL at the base you are at.I hope you both come home safe.Thanks for giving us back home a look at what our brave Marines are going through.Speaking as a Viet Nam vet I think the more we see and the more we know the better off we are.

Nice to see a major reporter covering a major story. At least to those of us that have a son or daughter over there. My son was one of the pilots that flew you into Jakur.....good coverage

Happy Anniversery AC360 and crew

Be safe AC, looking forward to all the reports this week. I am hoping to see a glimpse of my son who is with 1/5 WPNS.

be safe men! you are in in our prayers!

Anderson,

Thanks for bringing the amazing task that our Marines are doing in Afghanistan... into the living rooms of America this week. Listen to the guys and gals (Marines) who are helping to keep you and your crew safe... they're incredibly good at what they do! If you get a chance, say howdy to my husband, Col Al Faxon. We (his family) miss him in Vermont, we're enormously proud of his service and we pray for him constantly.

Semper Fi,
Nancy Faxon

I'm not going to tell you to be safe, Anderson, because (since you're alive) I'm reasonably certain you learned the value of this at some point in your career already.

I will tell you that I am watching this week's coverage while hyperventilating into a paper bag, which I usually reserve for accidentally viewing FOX News.

Anderson, keep up the great job, stay safe, and say hello to Lt. Col. Truax, 8th MEB