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...know for all of us in the ROTC program, [the war] was very close to us,” says Munns, who was a battalion commander last fall. “People who we knew were over there fighting and involved in the area, in danger...
During the war, he took a brief hiatus from the University to enlist, joining the 1258th Engineer Combat Battalion in General George Patton’s Third Army, where he saw action in England, France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg...
...applaud TIME for printing the words of Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy as his battalion easily routed Iraqi fighters outside the town of Kut [WITH THE TROOPS, April 14]. McCoy said, "Let's quit pussyfooting and call it what it is. It's murder, it's slaughter, it's clubbing baby harp seals." Some may believe the antiwar protests should have stopped once the fighting started, for fear of demoralizing American troops, but I am more concerned about the morale of those who will spend the rest of their lives dealing with the horrors of war. The suffering on both...
...word these days to patients of Las Vegas family practitioner Jeff Brookman is that the doctor is out - not on the golf course but in downtown Baghdad, where the reservist, 53, is a battalion surgeon doing trauma assessment and triage with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "He's three for three," says his wife Monterey, who has been taking his calls and referring his patients elsewhere for the past nine weeks. "First the Gulf War, then Somalia and now Iraq." This time, Monterey says, it has meant a pay cut of about 35%, and it will take months...
...time the 3/4 Battalion arrived downtown at Paradise Square, Iraqis were picking yellow flowers from the gardens and handing them over for the Leathernecks to stick in their helmets. Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy saw the large picture of Saddam above the entranceway to the Palestine Hotel. "I want that down," he said. Another Marine pointed out the huge statue in the square. "And that," said McCoy. A Marine noted that U.S. forces were not supposed to pull down statues. "Get your 88 and pull it down," McCoy said, referring to a powerful tank-recovery vehicle. And with that...