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Just after dawn Monday the soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division mustered at Brigade Headquarters for a memorial service commemorating the life of an officer killed in a grenade attack the night before. A half dozen chaplains and fellow officers spoke a few words, there were a few tears and finally a 21-gun salute...
...observer, I can say with conviction that morale here is high, the soldiers overwhelmingly trust their leaders and the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division is ready to begin combat operations...
...Never mind that a few other people - British airmen trying to dodge American missiles, members of the 101st Airborne hoping to survive a night's sleep and countless Iraqi grunts and civilians - experienced an Oscar week so taxing that they didn't live to see the ceremony. Have some sympathy, please, for a tailor's publicist facing the wartime challenge of getting Jennifer Lopez into one of his client's gowns. And, Lo, she looked ravishing in a vintage off-the-shoulder Grecian-style number (that was once worn by Jacqueline Kennedy) with flowered brocade edging I last...
...rear-echelon camp of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was rocked by a grenade attack early Sunday morning, local time. TIME's Jim Lacey was 20 yards away from the tent when the attack occurred; he reports 10 people were injured, six of them critically after two grenades were thrown into a tent. Lacey says the grenades targeted the tent of one of the commanders of the 101st...
When you've been camped in the Kuwait desert for weeks, even dodging incoming SCUD missiles can become routine. Late Thursday morning air raid sirens blasted the 101st Airborne's Camp Pennsylvania. Seconds later every soldier in camp was wearing a chemical protective mask and scurrying to one of the concrete bunkers scattered around the camp. There they rested, many of them panting after the exertion of a full out sprint in chemical gear, until the all clear siren sounded some fifteen minutes later...