Word: colonels
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...recording obtained by TIME. This record, made by an Army investigator during an interview with Col. Thomas Pappas, the former head of military intelligence at the prison, shows Pappas repeatedly trying to disassociate himself from "Big Steve" - who, Pappas says, was "out of control" and committing abuses - which the Colonel claims he spoke to colleagues or superiors about more than once. Col. Pappas - who was Jordan's superior and in charge of the entire Abu Ghraib facility for several months in 2003 and 2004 and its top ranking military intelligence officer for even longer, was reprimanded by the Army...
What worries politicians is that the religious Zionists, many born and raised in the West Bank settlements, are assuming a greater role as officers and soldiers inside élite combat units. Lieut. Colonel Dotan Razili, a commander at the Officers' Training Academy in the Negev Desert, estimates that 30% of his cadets are religious Zionists, even though they make up only 9% of the Israeli population, according to census figures...
Often, senior officers excuse soldiers if they object to evicting settlers, assigning them instead to, say, sentry duty. One Lieut. Colonel recalls that during the Gaza eviction he had a mid-ranking officer whose family was among those being moved out. "I let him go back and help his family," he says. Many religious Zionist soldiers were never disciplined when they called in sick during the February 2006 operation to remove nine families from a bleak hilltop known as Amona...
...affiliation with the foreign forces. Insurgents prefer to target Afghan forces rather than NATO, knowing that the poorly prepared troops rarely drive armored vehicles and that they lack sufficient retaliatory firepower to mount a counteroffensive. The rising military death toll has made recruiting new soldiers even more difficult, says Colonel Karimullah, head of army recruiting in Kabul. "The boys themselves are not afraid," he says. "But it is their parents who make the decisions to let them join, and when they see all this on TV, they don't think it's worth...
...admiration of his peers. Sinatra, who also had an Oscar (for From Here to Eternity) and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of all things, headlined A movies for three decades. These two were the model Elvis had to follow; and if he hadn't wanted to, his protective manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, would have made him do it. In the 50s, being a mainstream movie star meant scrubbing up the image, turning Elvis from a satyr into a nice guy, the well-behaved boy parents wouldn't mind their daughter dating...