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...Townsville's Lavarack Army Barracks, the catering platoons go through spuds the way combat platoons go through ammunition. Piled in the kitchens behind the base's Chauvel mess are five bulging 20-kg sacks, a day's supply of mash and chips for the 300 soldiers who eat here. They're all very active, says Warrant Officer John "Benny" Benstead, the head chef, "So their metabolism is cranking over a fair bit." As a dietitian might say, they know how to put it away...
...deployments and exercises, troops are served from trucked-in field kitchens, or carry "high-quality meals" in self-heating combat ration packs. "There's no chance of a soldier going hungry in the field," says Benstead, who'd clearly regard that as a personal defeat. "A happy soldier is a well-fed soldier," he says. "I always push into my chefs that we are the morale of the unit." More morale, at times, than some can handle: "Often after an exercise people say, 'What have you done to me? I should lose weight in the field...
...conflict raging in south Lebanon is like no other fought by Israel or Lebanon-based guerrillas. Israel is the most formidable military power in the Middle East and can defeat with ease the conventional armies of its Arab neighbors. Yet Hizballah's lightly armed but devoted, disciplined and combat-experienced guerrilla fighters are a different matter...
Since Wakim did not see combat, Joe Davis, the spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, told The Hill that Wakim is more accurately described as a “Gulf War-era veteran...
...Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want to be a part of this country than to serve overseas in a combat zone," Lopez tells Time. "People always talk about the immigration problem, but we can show we bring good to the country, too." Immigration advocates see no problem as the number of non-native troops rises. "They want to serve the country," says Michele Waslin of the National Council...