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Earlier this year, Roth and Kimel finished 3rd at the North American Debate Championships...
This is not the war this Army unit--officially known as the Survey Platoon, Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of the 1st Armored Division--was trained to fight. On a traditional battlefield, field-artillery survey units stay behind the front lines and use gyroscopic devices to measure the distance to enemy positions so the Army's big guns can hit their targets. That was the job this platoon, based in Giessen, Germany, pictured for itself when it received deployment orders in March, before the start of the war with Iraq. The group, now nicknamed the "Tomb Raiders...
...seems, were the G.I.s. That night, safely back at their base in Baghdad, the soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade tallied their hits. They reported that they had killed 54 Iraqi fighters in what had been the bloodiest clash since the start of the U.S. postwar occupation of Iraq. The next day General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the engagement a harsh lesson for Iraqi insurgents: "They attacked and they were killed. So I think it will be instructive to them...
Relying on untested allies also presents risks for coalition forces. It is instructive to spend a night with the 82nd Airborne's Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, bivouacked in southern Baghdad. An Iraqi informant reports that 12 to 20 suspected resistance leaders from Afghanistan and Syria are meeting in a mosque near the airport. The unit's commander, Captain Tyson Voelkel, tells his men these foreigners are gathering to review plans to launch terror attacks starting the next day. Some 110 G.I.s plus 40 members of the new Iraqi Civilian Defense Corps training with Alpha Company move...
Although the motion for a preliminary injunction is no longer as urgent now that the frantic fall recruiting season is finished, according to Lawler, Lambda hopes that the 3rd Circuit will move to suspend the statute before recruiting for HLS first-years begins in early spring...