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...murdering a Kosovar Albanian girl in January. The Army began to learn of the rot in the unit at Merita Shahibu's funeral. "If they can beat us," senior officers were told about the 3/504th, "they can also kill us." Information contained in the report regarding the "negative command climate" in the unit led defense counsel to seek leniency for Ronghi, who was found guilty of rape and murder and sentenced to life in prison in August. The Army said nine soldiers - five enlisted and four officers - were punished, largely with reductions in rank, fines and administrative penalties. None...
...True, the guilty were only a dozen or so members of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, but the blame for the tawdry details seeps far higher up their chain of command. Their woes didn't come after a year of boring peacekeeping duties in southeastern Kosovo, but rather began shortly after the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment arrived in the Balkans last September. Once deployed to the town of Vitina, the soldiers morphed, figuratively if not literally, into cops, poised delicately between the minority Serb population and Kosovar Albanians eager for revenge against the horrors wrought upon...
Burns, the sheriff who is second-in-command of the Middlesex County office, says that deputy sheriffs are "for some purposes" public officials, although he said he believed that special deputies were not public officials for the purpose of the public records act--though his own deputies are, indeed, subject to those laws...
...Neil's a guy who is in as complete command as it gets for a guy who doesn't have experience." Murphy said. "Barry Wahlberg is probably the best athlete of the three, with the strongest arm. Conor Black had a very distinguished high school career in a passing offense...
...Rose is] a guy who is in as complete command as it gets for a guy who doesn't have experience," Murphy said. "He's a tremendous student of the game. He's a guy who'll come in to study film after work in the summertime and then throw 100 balls a night to the wide receivers...