Word: 1st
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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...
...After the attack on the leadership of the 1st Brigade - for which one of its members has been arrested - I gave a number of interviews about the events of that night. There were a few recurring questions. How it would affect the unit's morale? Would it how delay operations? And was this an indication of disgruntled soldiers in the 1st Brigade? At the time, I speculated that neither morale nor operations would be much affected and that whatever motive the suspect had it was definitely not part of a bigger problem with the leadership. However, this was really only...
...first cruise missiles plunged into Baghdad on Thursday morning the conscripts of the 8th Division of the Iraqi army's 1st Corps hunkered down in their gunpits. During the bombardment hitting far to the south the Iraqis sat tight while below them the Kurdish villagers of Shorish waited hopefully for American bombs to rain down. But they did not come...
...that most of the soldiers here knew about the speech was that the President had given Saddam 48 hours to go into exile. "All I know is that the President gave him 48 hours and eight of them are gone," said Major Brian Winski, the Executive Officer of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry...
Franks and his wife have a daughter, a son-in-law in the 1st Armored Division and two grandchildren, both of whom call him Pooh. Franks met Cathy--whom he has described as his "mentor and guide"--on a blind date more than 35 years ago. He took her to see the movie Doctor Zhivago--a tale of war on the Asian landmass--and they married two years later with a promise that he soon would be leaving the Army. He has been in uniform ever since...