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Military officials say the Pentagon may put off an all-out ground assault on Baghdad until the Army can deploy 20,000 more troops from the 4th Infantry Division--who left Fort Hood, Texas, for Kuwait this week--to the front lines to reinforce the two forces already in place. As it regroups on the ground, the U.S. plans to ratchet up the pressure from the air. Apache helicopters from the Army's 101st Airborne Division have begun attacking the Republican Guard's Medina division southwest of Baghdad. Warplanes and gunships will try to smash the three Republican Guard divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticking To His Guns | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...saying. One of the POWs was an African-American female, 30 years old, named Shana--Shoshana's nickname. Not quite ready to believe the worst, he called Telemundo, which confirmed that his daughter had been spotted on Iraqi TV. It would be six long hours, however, before officials at Fort Bliss called Johnson and his wife Eunice to confirm what the couple had already surmised from surfing TV channels and the Internet. Their gentle daughter--a single mom who, when she was a child, "wouldn't fuss, wouldn't fight"--had become a prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisoner Of War: Taken By Surprise | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...more. In person and in her book, She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story, the doctor, soldier, wife and mother - then 38 - wrote about her ordeal with a gung-ho matter-of-factness. As a flight surgeon assigned to the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms, a broken finger, a gunshot wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman's Burden | 3/28/2003 | See Source »

...Safely back at Fort Rucker the following year, Cornum had little patience with those who use her as an example of the horrible things that can happen to women in war. "Every 15 seconds in America, some woman is assaulted. Why are they worried about a woman getting assaulted once every 10 years in a war overseas? It's ridiculous," she said. "It's clearly it's an emotional argument they use (to argue that women should be kept away from the frontlines) because they can't think of a rational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman's Burden | 3/28/2003 | See Source »

Charles Hulse, an Arkansas native and a Galle real estate agent, for years split his time between Paris and the Greek isle of Hydra before settling in a tastefully restored Galle house with interiors fit for Architectural Digest. Hulse notes that the cost of restoring a fort house usually runs more than half the purchase price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Home Address: Paradise | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

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