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...Muhammad made what would be one of many radical breaks from his life. He separated from Carol Williams, converted to Islam, left the National Guard and joined the Army. The job change even cut him loose from his hometown, sending him to Fort Lewis, Wash. Three years later, Muhammad had completely reinvented himself. He married Mildred Green, who had followed him from Louisiana. Both became members of the Nation of Islam and attended a Seattle mosque...
...unprotected database can seem like Fort Knox compared with wireless communications. "On a wired or fiber system, there's a physical path that someone has to penetrate. With wireless, the geographic area and the technology to access it are much, much broader," says Noel Matchett, president of Information Security, based in Silver Spring, Md., and a former National Security Agency cryptographer...
...sentimental about it, though. King comes the closest. Because he joined ROTC in his sophomore year, he spent five weeks last summer at a “lateral entry camp” where he caught up on the training he had missed. He says the drill sergeants at Fort Knox, where he attended this camp, talked a lot about how to talk about the army. “You’ll tell your stories about your different experiences and you try to relate to how it makes you feel inside and the people who haven?...
...What do we know about them? We know that John Allen Muhammad, nee Williams, is a Gulf War veteran, formerly stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State. According to the Associated Press, after serving in the Louisiana National Guard from 1978 to 1985, Muhammad served in the U.S. Army between November 1985 and April 1996, joining the Oregon National Guard in 1995. He trained as a machinist and combat engineer, according to military sources, and received a badge for his excellence in marksmanship. He never received formal sniper training. His police record is clean, the Associated Press reports, except...
...last January, the two men were living together in Tacoma, Washington, near Fort Lewis, where Muhammad had been stationed. Sometime during the winter, nearby neighbors called the police when they heard gunshots coming from near the house. Police, who Wednesday removed a tree stump from the backyard of the house, believe Malvo and Muhammad may have used the tree for target practice. The Seattle Times reports that when Muhammad and Malvo showed up in July to visit Muhammad?s former sister-in-law Sheron Norman in Louisiana, the older man introduced the boy as his son, according to Norman...