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...which little of substance actually happened. There were speeches, cheers and parades, but the German surrender had been signed early on May 7, and almost all the fighting had ended well before that. "We play softball every afternoon," a member of the U.S. 667th Field Artillery Battalion, at a German village near the Czech border, wrote in his diary. "I've had a shower, two movies and a U.S.O. show." Wrote one of his buddies: "V-E day. Just another day. Didn't seem to make a hell of a lot of difference...
...Papua New Guinea's Independence Day last year, Australian photojournalist Paul Blackmore turned up for the official celebrations at a Port Moresby stadium to find a scene not of triumph but of tragedy. An army battalion marched on an oval of withered grass before a virtually empty grandstand - and those in attendance seemed imprisoned by the stadium's machine-gun-wielding guards. "The whole thing was so bedraggled," Blackmore recalls...
...been made up by sending qualified reservists overseas more often. Civil-affairs and psyops units in Iraq have been short of soldiers who speak the local language and of proper weapons and gear for protection in combat zones, after-action reports say. One filed by a civil-affairs battalion commander last spring complained that his unit was sent into Iraq "criminally underequipped...
Going back to the Marines meant a 75% salary cut, but Pantano loved it. In January 2004, after a year of officer's training, he was assigned as a second lieutenant to Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of Marines--2-2, for short. In mid-March they arrived in Iraq. Pantano prepared his platoon by working the men hard. His men grumbled--enlisted men call officers like Pantano "motarded"--motivated to the point of retardation. But he believed that the more they trained, the fitter they were, the more chance they had of surviving...
...prosecution's other critical claim: that the two men were shot in the back. "I don't know how they can say that when there are no bodies to examine," Gittins says. The bodies were reclaimed by the families. They came from Latifiyah, an insurgent hot spot where the battalion suffered many of its casualties during its seven months in the country. Gittins says a photograph taken by a Marine appears to show that the two Iraqis died of massive chest wounds...