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...younger soldiers with troubled records who make a break for it because of personal or financial woes rather than moral or political objections. "Often, we have found, soldiers cannot find an honorable way out and just leave their units," says Lieut. Colonel Susan Danielsen, the provost marshal at Fort Bragg Army base. Whatever the reason, discontent in the ranks seems to be starting to show, especially among National Guard and Reserve soldiers, some of whom probably never bargained for the full-time, life-threatening commitment that their service, in many cases, has become. Staff members at the G.I. Rights Hotline...
BORN. To Private First Class LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs: a son; in Fort Bragg, N.C. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years in prison...
BORN to PRIVATE FIRST CLASS LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, U.S. soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs; a son; in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated...
...recent morning bang on a houseguest's bedroom door, elbow it open and deliver a tray of hot coffee and grapefruit wedges and then trumpet the start of an adventure that would in a few hours take him inside the roaring wind tunnel at Fort Bragg. There, in the levitating blast of air, he grins and trains for free fall from an airplane, looking like Buck Rogers (his era) in helmeted black zip-up, forming an untethered star with half a dozen new buddies of the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team. "It's the greatest," he says...
...bills"), to his special causes, like the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and to talking with American soldiers, the wounded and the families of casualties. He holds no higher heroes in his crowded life, and when he said so to the troops at Fort Bragg, there was thunderous approval...