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Robyn kriel biography

          Recovering journalist..

          International news correspondent with 15 years' experience in front of and behind the camera as an anchor, journalist, and manager.

        1. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Kriel graduated from TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, with degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Musical Theater.
        2. Recovering journalist.
        3. Robyn Kriel.
        4. Three years ago, I was reporting undercover inZimbabwe, where I was born and raised.

          5. Robyn Kriel

          “I smelled you from across the camp the moment you got out of the vehicle.”

          I resisted the urge to ask the handsome young United States Marine, who was helping me put on my 15-pound Kevlar bulletproof vest, whether it was a good smell or a bad smell.

          I was on day eight of no shower or bath, and figured I should spare myself the pain of the truth.

          I was the only woman in a United States Marines Combat Outpost in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. I was surrounded by more than a hundred muscle-bound American males who hadn’t seen a woman (or at least one not covered up from head to toe in a traditional Afghan burka) in six months.

          And I was on the verge of losing my mind.

          “The shitters are over there.”

          I stared in horror at another young man who was pointing out, well, the shitters.

          They were tented off ‘areas’ the size of telephone booths, containing a wooden box toilet seat and lid, one that was bedazzled with the name “WARLORD THRONE” on it.

          The tents had holes in t