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...attacks and builds explosives. Detainees, officials say, have helped identify new prisoners, from Osama bin Laden's bodyguards to rank-and-file militia fighters; late last year, according to officials, a few detainees helped uncover a previously unknown al-Qaeda cell in another country. Still, earlier this year the civilian head of intelligence at Guantánamo admitted in newspaper interviews that the majority of detainees were no longer of much intelligence value and were not even being regularly interrogated...
...headed for. Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, argues the Army should make the commitment 15 months total, coupled with generous education benefits, and market it to a group the service has largely ignored: recent college graduates looking for a character-building adventure before taking a civilian job or going to grad school. "We now graduate 1.2 million bachelor's degree students every year," he says. "If you could get 10% of them, our recruitment woes would be over...
...changes become even more necessary when you are. Sept. 11 brought a screaming collision between theory and practice at the nation's oldest military academy. Instantly there was massive security on the post. Gates closed, civilian traffic blocked, snipers on the rooftops, military police stationed every 50 yards or so, checking IDs. "All you had to do was bring one truck bomb into the tunnel under Washington Hall during lunch," says a cadet, "and you could really change the future of the Army." It was not just the shock of the images. "I remember walking to my class, past...
...free. She did find things to love about the place. A natural color coder, she appreciated the daily structure that challenged cadets to make the most of every moment. That West Point life recovered its routines quickly after 9/11--albeit with a new, underlying urgency--seemed right to her: the civilian world got too wrapped up in sorrow and memory and nerves rubbed raw. "I think one of the things that made people so sad outside of West Point," she says, "was that they simply were kicked off of their routines...
...friends, Greg visits old high school buddies in Boston on the weekends, Tom finds his way to New York City with classmates when he gets the chance. When they're relaxing during downtime, only Greg retains the vigilant intensity of a soldier. Tom and Kristen switch more readily into civilian languor mode, an artifact perhaps from their previous lives in sunny western states. The intensity level at West Point remains high, though, in part because of a new crop of instructors, tested by recent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have come back to teach cadets about the moral ambiguities...