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...when temperatures dipped down to 30 degrees below zero. Sweaty feet in wet boots froze instantly; food supplies were vaguely flavored lumps of ice. The Marines kept their rifles combat ready by urinating on them, and limbered their machine guns with gasoline. A sergeant in Lieut. Colonel Raymond Davis' battalion ''reached down into the snow and pulled out of a hole a solid chunk of ice that was a Chinese soldier.'' When the officer asked if the man was dead, the sergeant replied, ''No, sir, his eyes are moving.'' As Marines who were there will attest, that was often...
...Marine 1st reconnaissance Battalion waits in Kuwait for the order to invade Iraq, there's a troubling rumor. It's not about the mission or WMD or the equipment they have not received. It's about Jennifer Lopez. J. Lo's dead, the buzz says, and the government is hiding the truth to prop up morale...
...traced the license plate of the Toyota used by the kidnappers. They discovered that the plate had originally belonged to a vehicle in Bulacan. In July 2006, the owner of that vehicle was cited for illegal logging, and the vehicle itself was impounded by the army's 56th Infantry Battalion, also stationed in Bulacan. A second car allegedly used by the kidnappers was traced to a top military officer. Since then, the impounded car-and its license plate-have been sitting on an army base. The plate seemed to point to the military's involvement in Burgos's abduction. "This...
...military conducted its own internal investigation into the license plate. While that report recommended censuring three of the battalion's officers for failing to keep track of the plate, it did not offer an explanation of how the plate became attached to the car used to snatch Burgos-other than to suggest that someone seeking to discredit the military may have snuck into the base and stolen it. In July, a senior government prosecutor announced that he wanted to interview six military officers in connection with Burgos' abduction. He was immediately removed from the case. Senior military officers have offered...
...time of his abduction. But a confidential military memo dating from May 2007 places Burgos in the army's "order of battle"-a roster of NPA insurgents targeted for arrest or elimination. Next to Burgos' name is the word "neutralized." The memo bears the name of the 56th Infantry Battalion's chief intelligence officer, but is not signed. Bacarro will not confirm the document's authenticity. "It is the subject of an investigation so we're leaving it to the court to assert the authenticity," he says...