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...free up units like the 101st Airborne, now nation building in northern Iraq, for combat. "We don't have enough troops to do what needs to be done now," Shalikashvili told me. Second, these would have to be real soldiers, mentally tough, physically fit and combat ready. "Any peaceful checkpoint can become a battlefield in a heartbeat," said retired Major General Bill Nash, who commanded U.S. troops in Bosnia. There is fierce disdain within the Pentagon for the passive U.N. peacekeepers who stood by while thousands were murdered in Bosnia's ethnic cleansing. Finally, the Extreme Peacekeepers would have...
...disillusionment, he tries to return to his family and the safe Hasidic world he left behind. In this world of ideologies gone wild, however, going home is not an option. Mendy’s adventures in the real world end with a bomb he unwittingly helped smuggle across a checkpoint...
...Princeton Training Center crew led throughout, eking out the fastest time at the first checkpoint at Riverside before distancing itself significantly from the competition. Leading Victoria City by less than a second early on, Princeton Training Center stretched the difference to six seconds by the next timed mark...
...first checkpoint, Radcliffe challenged even the highly-touted Riverside Boat Club for course supremacy, reaching the post just 1.531 seconds behind, although it ultimately fell short in capturing second overall...
...Chechen separatists. The soldiers--young conscripts fresh from the provinces and professionals here for the money--are tense, but they barely glance at most Chechens passing by. And the Chechens ignore them. The Russians don't find any mines this morning, and at a concrete-and-barbed-wire checkpoint, their comrades inspecting cars and buses don't catch any rebels. They occasionally rough up the drivers and often demand bribes, but the guerrillas know very well how this game is played. "Stick some money out the window, and they don't check anything," says a self-described mujahid. Ordinary residents...