No Foreign Income Tax Exclusion For Army Civilian In Afghanistan

"You have been in Afghanistan I perceive" is one of my favorite lines in literature, so I just can't pass up a Tax Court decision that concerns service in Afghanistan.  And then there is the taxpayer's name -Samuel Striker. Something in my mind associated that with the trope of the ethnically, if not racially, diverse WW II infantry squad - Murphy, Kowalski, Cohen, Running Deer - led by a generic American sergeant - like Sergeant Fury or Sergeant Rock or Sergeant Saunders.  Then it dawned on m...