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...half ago. "He heard that we had a soldier who was shot and was in Spain's AOR [area of responsibility]. The Spanish troops had to call back to Madrid to seek permission to medevac him," a Pentagon aide told me. "The soldier lived. But Gates was furious." He also heard that while wounded soldiers in Iraq were guaranteed a medevac within the "golden hour," in Afghanistan they could wait as long as 1 hr. 41 min. Gates saw that there were Air Force helicopters sitting on the tarmac at the Bagram base, on call for search-and-rescue missions...
...sister was so furious, she barely spoke to me during my father's last years. Honest, I'm not a terrible person. So how did I get it so wrong? (See how to prevent illness...
Hagel’s tally proved to be the game-winner, as Kalemba fended off furious Crimson attempts at goal to seal the win for the visitors...
...while he mixed comfortably with his neighbors. But then a couple of teenage girls interviewed him for what he thought would be a story on the high school page of the local paper. When the paper billed it instead as a scoop in its regular pages, Salinger was furious. It was the last interview he ever gave. Not long after, he built a high wall around his house...
...responded by running closer, cheering, waving and flashing thumbs-up signs. It was a charming moment. The children were happy to see the soldiers, and the soldiers were thrilled to be appreciated by locals. The elevated mood lasted all the way back to camp, until the evening debriefing. The furious commanding officer berated the soldiers, saying that distributing candy could cause children in the future to run out in front of moving humvees, risking an accident. Worse, the enemy could take advantage of the crowd to get close to the vehicles and detonate a bomb, endangering the soldiers...