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...When - and at what cost - the Sea-Based X-Band radar will finally be up and running in Alaska is hard to say. Right now, the target date is early next year, but to Col. Fellows, pinning these answers down is beside the point. Sitting in his hotel room watching the white dome near the Pearl Harbor memorial put the system's goals in perspective. "People in Hawaii understand SBX because that's what we're trying to do - prevent something from attacking us without forewarning," Fellows says. "If we had been able to stop that, history would have been...
...This whole place used to be sanctuary," says Col. Wayne Grigsby, commander of U.S. forces in the area. Now several thousand Americans are spread across several combat outposts, and they patrol Madain for hours each day. Grigsby's men are confronting enemies whose diversity and ingenuity reflect the variety of armed groups that have proliferated in Baghdad since 2003. Their main focus, says Grigsby, is preventing militants and their weapons from entering the capital...
...When Lt. Col. Eric Durr, a member of the New York State Army National Guard, left his Albany, N.Y., home in April 2004 bound for Iraq, his wife placed a framed photograph of him in the dining room. Two years later, when she deployed to Iraq also with the Army Reserves, Durr placed a photo of her, Lt. Col. Heather Brownell, in the same spot. For their kids, Steve, now 13, and Stephanie, 16, the war in Iraq is more than just flickering images on a television screen. To them, it means a life of constantly shifting family dynamics...
...different for every family," says Lt. Col. Durr. "We both have been in Army National Reserves [since] my kids were born," he says of himself and his wife, Heather. "[My kids] are used to mom and dad not being around sometimes." In the aftermath of 9/11, for example, Durr spent four months at Ground Zero in New York City...
...thinkers chose to sit for Feguson's cameras, but one of them, a slippery, sneering and supercilious man named Walter Slocombe, a senior advisor to CPA, did. He was a reluctant warrior, whose visits to Iraq were few and brief. But he says he was in constant contact with Col. Paul Hughes, who was struggling to keep the Iraqi army intact. Hughes is a polite, low-keyed sort of guy, but when asked about his contacts with Slocombe he finally cracks. Mostly what they discussed, he says, was what kind of car he would have in Baghdad...