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...force many volunteers to retire from the effort. I have spoken with the Red Cross and several pastors in New York. Theyre turning away volunteers, food, clothes, and blood donors at this point. One friend, a young guy with firefighting, paramedic, and rescue training from his time in the 82nd Airborne, cant find anything to do now, Grizzle says...
...goal sucked the life out of the Hawks' attack and forced them to stretch the field in a desperate attempt to rally back. The move left Hartford vulnerable for Yenne's finishing strike in the 82nd minute...
...report is certain to fuel arguments by Republicans that sending in elite fighting units like the 82nd to perform rent-a-cop missions like those in Kosovo dulls their fighting edge, saps morale and can lead to embarrassments like those detailed in the report. But the soldiers' protestations of ignorance of the regs don't hold up under scrutiny. NATO rules required each to carry a blue pocket card detailing how civilians were to be treated. "Use the minimum force necessary to accomplish your mission," it began. "Treat everyone, including civilians and detained hostile forces/belligerents, humanely." Even combatants aren...
...True, the guilty were only a dozen or so members of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, but the blame for the tawdry details seeps far higher up their chain of command. Their woes didn't come after a year of boring peacekeeping duties in southeastern Kosovo, but rather began shortly after the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment arrived in the Balkans last September. Once deployed to the town of Vitina, the soldiers morphed, figuratively if not literally, into cops, poised delicately between the minority Serb population and Kosovar Albanians eager for revenge against the horrors wrought upon...
Also late in the contest, in the 82nd minute, sophomore forward Jon Oslowski made an impressive block of a Brown free kick from midfield...