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...operation, which doubled the population of the flat farmland in one single airlift, was initiated by intelligence from Iraq security forces, says Lt Col Skip Johnson commander of the 187 Battallion, 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne. "They have the lead," he said to reporters at the second stop of the tour. But by Friday afternoon, the major targets seemed to have slipped through their fingers. Iraqi Army General Abdul Jabar says that Samarra-based insurgent leader Hamad el Taki of Mohammad?s Army was thought to be in the area, and Iraqi intelligence officers were still working...
...when the first Korean War ended in July 1953. Seoul, which is only 35 miles from the DMZ, has invested heavily in the lines, especially the Alpha line, which crosses the Munsan and Chorwan valleys -- where North Korea would probably push through. Since April, the U.S. has dispatched a battallion's worth of Patriot missiles to South Korea and replaced older Cobra helicopter gunships with new, more potent Apaches. Pentagon officials say all key ports and airfields are being fine-tuned for action. Fuel supplies and depots are being topped off at maximum capacity. The U.S. has withdrawn older iron...
...761st tank battallion had five companies. They may have been 200 miles apart." Parks said. "I'm not ready to agree when some one white officer says they weren't there. I guarantee he would have had no way of knowing what they were doing...
Sophomores Ross Cockrell and Mike Foster and freshmen Bill Boone, Dennis Crowley and David Miller round out the 1988 Crimson golf battallion...
...bottom of the sixth--with the score 21-2--Coach Kit Morris sent out his bench battallion, and they responded by tallying ten runs. Even Karen Pelletier--usually a pitcher--got in on the act. Subbing for Alissa Friedman at second, Polletier went to the plate twice in the inning, collecting a single and a round-tripper...