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...artillery to shorten the war. And now, as the U.S. finds itself in a deepening struggle to root out stubborn pockets of resistance and track down Saddam, the Pentagon's most specialized units are again playing outsize roles. Last week Army special forces, along with troops from the 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry divisions, launched a series of raids on a variety of strongholds north and west of Baghdad, killing dozens in a pro-Saddam movement that one Marine colonel in Baghdad told TIME was becoming "more and more organized and military-like...
...101st Airborne’s second day of fighting in Karbala, Iraq...
...related one troublesome but interesting story that he said he would never have gotten if he had not been allowed access to the 101st...
Barnes recalled one incident in which the 101st was poised to take an airfield outside of the city of Najaf. “I was in the planning session the night before,” he said. “The soldiers were discussing the airfield and the possibility of some weapon caches...
...Owner John Constance, a two-term Sackets Harbor mayor and former-Marine, has a son-in-law, Major Pat Frank, with the 101st Airborne Division. Frank?s tent was one of the ones that was hit in March by grenades tossed by a fellow serviceman at Camp Pennsylvania, in Kuwait. Pat was returning from the showers when it happened. ?Its been such a strain on my poor daughter [Jennifer],? says Constance. ?It?s unfortunate he?s missing all this fun in our family, but the good thing is it?s keeping my daughter?s mind occupied...