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...stay close to their injured comrades and receive frequent updates on their medical condition. Or washing the blood from vehicles used to transport the wounded so that their buddies would be spared the gruesomely vivid reminder of the attack that felled their colleagues. "The more intense it got with combat casualties coming through the door, the calmer Maureen became. I think the Marines really appreciated that," says Lieut. (j.g.) Joelle Annondano, a physician's assistant who served in Iraq with Pennington. "But she was also like a mom to all of us. She was not afraid to give someone...
Pennington, 45, is the first nurse to lead a surgical company during combat operations, and her work in Iraq, along with her previous two decades of active duty, offers living testimony to the difference one individual can make by building a career out of serving the needs of others. Pennington's eight-month tour in Iraq in 2006 earned her the Bronze Star for "heroic or meritorious achievement" in part for attaining an unprecedented 98% survival rate for her patients, many of whom were victims of severe blast wounds. On Oct. 23, she received a Minerva Award at the California...
...Shame" unfortunately served up a one-sided, sensationalistic view of the V-22 Osprey program, full of inaccuracies and misleading to TIME's readers [Oct. 8]. The Osprey has taken a long time to move from a concept to extensive developmental and operational testing and now to its first combat deployment. It is sad that TIME's story failed to include the fact that in the past six years, the V-22 program had the most extensive technical and programmatic review in the history of aircraft. The cover and the story, which included dated material, were neither balanced nor accurate...
...they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...
With that decline in popularity has come a surge in Islamic militancy that Musharraf's army has been unable to combat. As many as 250 people, including some 45 soldiers, were killed in fierce fighting in Pakistan's tribal areas last week. Despite promises to the contrary, Musharraf was forced to use aircraft to bomb suspected militant hideouts, escalating the death toll and local anti-government rage. Some analysts are already calling the situation in North and South Waziristan, the locus of the fighting, a "civil war." On Friday, the eighth anniversary of Musharraf's coup, militants publicly beheaded...