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...Marines in Ramadi have come under regular assault, forcing commanders last week to order reinforcements to the besieged city. In the past year, the Army's 2/28th Brigade Combat Team, the unit the Marines are attached to, has lost 79 men in Ramadi--yet the brigade's commander, Colonel John Gronski, says, "The level of violence remains about the same...
...hopes and fears of the city are, for now, concentrated on a tall, rangy Corps veteran, Lieut. Colonel Lewis Setliff, head of Task Force Guardian, the group charged with repairing the levee system. Setliff's team has been given an $800 million pocketbook to repair more than 200 miles of levee damage and construct three unique floodgate systems to stop storm surges from riding into the city via the three drainage canals breached after Katrina. The Corps admitted last week that two of the three floodgates it was building for the job would not be finished on June...
...States Army's 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. But not all Iraq combat surgeons think the film - which includes images of a soldier being carried from a helicopter, his face burned beyond recognition - is such a good idea. Last week Dr. Joseph Brennan, who is an Air Force Colonel, received an email directed to all Armed Forces medical personnel warning of the potential traumatic effects the film's graphic content may have on service members and their families...
...Some of Brennan's colleagues don't take the same view. Colonel Donald Jenkins, who served with Brennan and currently oversees U.S. military trauma care in Iraq and Afghanistan, sees benefits in the exposure. "I think it's really good for the families of the medics, nurses, and physicians to see this from another perspective," he says, and the families of those deployed "can be comforted by knowing what fantastic trauma care is available to their kids." Another possible result, Jenkins sees, is the film's potential as a recruitment tool for military medicine. "I believe people are motivated when...
...That may well be true. But even some seasoned combat surgeons are wary to revisit the truth. ""I would encourage my family to watch. I have mixed feelings about watching it myself, because I already know what it's like," says Lieutenant Colonel Michael Eppinger, a cardiothoracic surgeon who also served at Balad in 2004 and 2005. "I'm very happy that I had the opportunity to go over there and take care of people. And I'll go back again when I get sent. But there are still things that I remember that bother...