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...have been the most unusual directive of Gulf War II. "Soldiers of 2nd Battalion," ordered Lieut. Colonel Chris Hughes. "Smile!" With that, infantrymen of the 101st Airborne Division, armed to the teeth, began flashing their choppers at a crowd that had grown restless as the soldiers approached the mosque at the Tomb of Ali in Najaf, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites. The tactic helped win over a crowd that had more questions than answers. Were the soldiers going to storm the mosque, as some agitators were shouting? Were they liberators? Or conquerors? Were they really going...
...they were only too glad to pose for pictures in their newly issued equipment while brandishing AK-47's, often begging to be photographed. They all professed to wanting Saddam dead and shouted their willingness to fight his forces anywhere in An Najaf. Bold talk, considering the 101st Airborne had just completed sending Saddam's loyalist cadres to the great beyond. I asked one of the Special Forces soldiers how he knew these guys were not fighting for Saddam the day before. "Some of them probably were," he replied. "But they have had a conversion...
...vehicle to a target which, if friendly, will automatically reply in milliseconds. Despite years of research and negotiations, it will be at least two years until such a device can be produced and installed in all U.S. military vehicles. --By Amanda Bower. With reporting by Jim Lacey/with the 101st Airborne and Terry McCarthy/Kuwait
...miles from Baghdad --U.S. 101st Airborne launches helicopter attacks against Republican Guard...
...Lowy is covering his first war. He's learning fast. Riding with the 1st Brigade of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, he was traveling north last week with hundreds of military vehicles in a ground-assault convoy (GAC). Alongside 15 soldiers, Lowy was in a troop carrier moving through stifling desert mornings and nights so cold that the men sometimes used plastic bottles of their own urine as hand warmers. "When I get out of here," he says, "I'm going to make up a T shirt that says I SURVIVED...