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...Under Cornum, the hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb...
...Anthony (Lewis Owen McGibbon) who, having lost their mother, move with their father to a house in a new development somewhere near Manchester. A few weeks before the shift from the pound to the euro, a bag of cash falls from the sky into Damien’s cardboard fort. The oncoming currency shift poses the problem of how to spend this treasure before it becomes worthless...
...shell to eject from the wrong side." Players have to go through simulated Army training before they can enter combat, and the game emphasizes teamwork and the rules of engagement over freelance gunplay. If you shoot civilians or your fellow "soldiers," you'll be sent to a virtual Fort Leavenworth...
...younger soldiers with troubled records who make a break for it because of personal or financial woes rather than moral or political objections. "Often, we have found, soldiers cannot find an honorable way out and just leave their units," says Lieut. Colonel Susan Danielsen, the provost marshal at Fort Bragg Army base. Whatever the reason, discontent in the ranks seems to be starting to show, especially among National Guard and Reserve soldiers, some of whom probably never bargained for the full-time, life-threatening commitment that their service, in many cases, has become. Staff members at the G.I. Rights Hotline...
...LAST TUESDAY, RETIRED General Colin Powell was dutifully signing books at a Wal-Mart in suburban Fort Worth when he noticed that the line of eager buyers appeared distracted. He was nonplussed, like a sergeant whose troops had fallen out without an order to do so. For a long moment in that cavernous mall in Texas, Powell seemed to be the only person in America who was unaware of what was happening in a courtroom in Los Angeles...