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...rest his nagging injuries before Nationals. While Jantzen and O’Connor will be the only Harvard representatives at NCAAs, junior Tommy Picarsic also posted an outstanding weekend. The lightest Crimson competitor, at 133 lbs, inspired the entire squad by opening the tournament with an upset of Army??€™s seventh-seeded Whitt Dunning, 8-7. The junior dropped his next bout, but rebounded by edging Dan Hilt and Bryan Ortenzio in the consolation draw. The Crimson wrestler’s run would end in the consolation semis. “[Picarsic] opened the tournament and went...
...March 23, 2003, a convoy of the United States Army??€™s 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq by Saddam Hussein’s forces. In the course of the ambush, the Iraqi forces employed rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, and even tanks to attack a small column of supply trucks that had taken a wrong turn into enemy territory. The ambush cost the United States eleven of its finest and also resulted in the capture of seven brave American soldiers, including the now-famous Jessica Lynch...
...Criticism of the Army??€™s weapons procurement system has not been limited to noncombat units or even the Iraqi theatre of operations. In Afghanistan, the M16’s little brother, the M4 carbine, has also been the target of a litany of complaints. A 2006 survey of returning veterans revealed that 19 percent of those who had been issued an M4 had suffered a stoppage during combat, and that almost 20 percent of these users had not been able to clear the jam without assistance. Considering that the M4 is a specialty weapon mainly issued to elite...
...Furthermore, the HK416 is just one component of an already existing gun. Converting the Army??€™s inventory of M4’s to use the new part would be much cheaper and more cost-effective than buying an entirely new weapons system in the near future, such as the heavily hyped but ultimately disappointing XM29 Objective Infantry Combat Weapon...
...first plans to develop a practical strategy for genocide prevention with the U.S. Army??€™s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute and then apply that concept to actual scenarios of mass atrocity...