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...mission? Lichtenwalner: It was a shock, but of course, when I joined the Marine Corps, I anticipated having to be around death. I wasn't really crazy about being a cook, but when they switched our job up, I wasn't really crazy about doing [mortuary affairs] either. [Laughs.] But I was prepared to be around death, and once we got started, there was really no turning back. I realized just how important a mission Ryan and I both had. We kind of viewed it as a calling. Just like what we do now is our calling...
...what we had to do was go in, recover this tank and try to tentatively figure out who was in it and collect all the evidence. This was all done at a time when there were a lot of insurgents in the area. There were thousands of people on either side of the road, so we had to do crowd control in order to give ourselves room to do our work. We had the crowd pushing forward, so we had to push them back. And there were rooftops everywhere. It was a very sticky situation. But we ended up recovering...
...transfer case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead, and it's very solemn and very quiet. There was no audience. This was a ceremony performed...
...Outliers "If you really want to push the envelope, then how about Damascus or Tehran?" asks Hooper. "Now that would make an impression." Yes, but it would be seen as rewarding states that support terrorist groups, and there's no indication the White House is considering either city. Baghdad? Still too dangerous. Riyadh? Obama would be seen as being in the pocket of the Saudi royal family. Oman, Bahrain ... the list could...
...second floor of what was once a school in east Mosul, an Iraqi Army medic stuck his chin out a hallway window and shaved over the courtyard. On either side of him in the dingy hallway light, detainees sat facing the wall, blankets cast over their heads. The Iraqi Army had brought them in on a tip from a man they caught with bomb making materials, and a U.S. Army platoon had just arrived. As the medic flicked his razor and turned his small mirror, the American soldiers stood the detainees up one by one, scanned their retinas, took their...