Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gulf. The company's new Good Book ($19.95), which is not guaranteed bulletproof, comes inscribed with a verse from Psalms 28: "The Lord is my strength and my shield." Meanwhile, the 200,000 free Bibles given to soldiers by the International Bible Society have been camouflaged in desert colors. One such book sits on allied commander Norman Schwarzkopf's desk...
...ground soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, the shortest road home from Saudi Arabia cuts through Kuwait. But the prospect of traveling along it fills the grunts with dread...
Near the gas-monitoring machines and scattered around the bases are live chickens. The machines' sirens will sound if there are chemical agents in the air, but the birds are the backup. Coal miners used canaries to warn against poisonous gases; the desert uses chickens. One air base named its newspaper after its chicken -- Buford Talks -- on the grounds that as long as the bird is squawking, they are safe. When peace comes, the soldiers daydream, they will hold a barbecue...
...real debate going now," says Martin Binkin, a military manpower expert at the Brookings Institution. "Some say an older soldier with a stable family life makes for a better soldier. On the other hand, someone with dependents has lots to think about, especially if he's in the desert for six to eight months and is worried about a sick child...
There is free time in the desert -- sometimes much too much of it. Desert Shield Radio, a network of four FM stations, plays news and music round the clock, a welcome replacement for Baghdad Betty, who used to taunt soldiers that their wives back home were being unfaithful. (One cuckolder was said to be Bart Simpson.) She has not been heard from since the bombing began. By and large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests...