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...shorter enlistments may not be enough to attract students if the adventure still means combat in Iraq. The Army had "disappointing" results when it tried out its 15-month enlistment option in a pilot program over the past two years in 10 cities, said Major General Michael Rochelle, head of the Army Recruiting Command. He insists it was because the program wasn't advertised broadly. But even an aggressive marketing campaign by no means guarantees compensating for the shortfall of 6,600 enlistees so far this year, with next year looking not much better. Rochelle says the military is facing...
...Budget of the Philippines' new Press Freedom Fund, set up to help combat violence against journalists 68 Number of journalists killed in the Philippines since...
...John Kerry threw away his military decorations and joined the anti-war movement after returning from his tour of duty. Sure, George W. Bush never saw combat, possibly because of his family’s political clout. But these kinds of assertions should never dominate in a presidential campaign, especially at the expense of the platform issues that will actually shape the administration of the victor...
...began to see that our three cadets-indeed, nearly every cadet I spoke with-were incredibly self-aware and candid, each with a vastly different story about their path to West Point, and different reasons for why they decided to stay the course, even as it led to combat...
...retains the vigilant intensity of a soldier. Tom and Kristen switch more readily into civilian languor mode, an artifact perhaps from their previous lives in sunny western states. The intensity level at West Point remains high, though, in part because of a new crop of instructors, tested by recent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have come back to teach cadets about the moral ambiguities and psychological rigors of counterinsurgency and nation building. Captain Chris McKinney led a company of a hundred men through the bloody strike on Karbala before teaching infantry tactics, and the importance of constant, fierce adherence...