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June 1954 The CIA organizes a coup in Guatemala by COLONEL CARLOS CASTILLO ARMAS and other officers against leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman...
...next 36 hours, the rebels were subjected to a suffocating air bombardment. According to U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King, American planes dropped 19 "cave busters," 2,000-pound bombs that blast deep into the ground. This was followed by a rain of 500-pounders and rocket and cannon fire from AC?130 gunships and Apache helicopters. "It looked like (the rebels) had lost their minds," says Raziq. "They were running in every direction." By Raziq's count, 22 rebels were killed and another 13 were captured. The U.S. military reported no casualties...
...imagine having 20,000 soldiers pick up and move out in a three-week period. It's a lot more complicated than it looks," says Colonel Louis Weber. The logistics aren't all military. "You got to get your lawn service done, get your pet taken care of, close out your rent, turn off your cable and phone," he explains...
...mood is raw in part because uncertainty is the enemy now. "Your kids ask, 'How long will you be gone, Daddy?'" says Colonel Weber. "And you say, I don't know. 'Will you have to kill anybody?' 'I don't know.' 'Will you go to Iraq?' 'Dunno.' And all that uncertainty weighs on you. In a deployment like this, you just don't know." The soldiers all talk about logistics and training and tying up loose ends. This is what we do. This is what we've trained for. But they hardly ever talk about...
...worries were mostly unfounded. The cast he ultimately assembled includes a folklore scholar who plays a monk, a monk trained in pure mathematics who plays a tractor driver, an official from Bhutan's Royal Monetary Authority who is also a former member of the national football team, a lieutenant colonel in the King's bodyguard and a charismatic TV reporter with a journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley. They're a devout but cosmopolitan bunch, and they've taken their director's special standing in stride. After two months of shooting, they treat him with casual affection...