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...This type of deception has been going on for over two years," said the letter, from an unidentified V-22 repairman. The writer alleged that Lt. Col. Odin Fred Leberman ordered his mechanics to engage in wholesale fibbing until the Pentagon approved full-scale production of the Marines' prized aircraft. "Maintainers are being told they have to lie on maintenance records to make the numbers look good," said the letter. What is amazing is how bad the numbers are - even after the Marines fattened their records with falsehoods...
...tiny knot of American soldiers had harassed and assaulted Kosovar civilians because the troops had prepared for war and had not been adequately schooled in peacekeeping. "As a result, the [U.S. troops] experienced difficulties tempering their combat mentality for adapting and transitioning to the Kosovo [mission]," Col. John Morgan III concluded in a report released Monday at the Pentagon. "In [this] environment, the unit's overly aggressive tendencies were manifested in practices such as the unit slogan, 'Shoot 'em in the face,' and their standard operating procedure of pointing the M-4 carbine weapon system with the attached maglight...
...report criticized the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Michael Ellerbe, for ignoring claims that his men were mistreating the civilians they were supposed to be protecting. "Unit members violated the limits and terms of their military assignments by intimidating, interrogating, abusing and beating Albanians and by traveling outside of their physically assigned sector to conduct some of these activities," the report said. "The facts reveal several incidents of soldier misconduct towards females, including inappropriate touching, grabbing of breasts and buttocks and the perception of Kosovar females of improper searches conducted by soldiers." Ellerbe didn't see it that way. "My goal...
...recounted legend of the founding of the Union Club begins during the Civil War. In 1863, as Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Class of 1860, and the 54th all-Negro regiment was marching past the Somerset Club, the members pulled down their blinds and hissed in disapproval. Shocked and horrified, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Class of 1861, second-in-command of that regiment, reportedly led a group of his friends out the front door and formed the Union Club just down the street. Not until 1952 would a Hallowell finally agree to join the Somerset...
...this point we are supposed to be angry at the government for blaming Childers. But we've seen what happened in Yemen-Childers is alt least 90 percent to blame-whether or not he should be made a scapegoat is beyond the point. As his lawyer Childers chooses Col. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones '69), a close friend whose life he saved in Vietnam. Hodges is a recovering alcoholic who has just retired-he was never a very good lawyer, but he feels that he owes it to his friend to defend...