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...Atlanta, the thrashers, goldfinches, ruby-breasted grosbeaks, red-shouldered hawks and hummingbirds are out and about. Stay two nights and receive a $20 lodging credit, a Georgia Birds pocket guide and a birdhouse to take home. Rates start at $96 midweek. Through June 26. 178 Calen Drive, Blue Ridge, GA...
Army Captain Keith Bell, former commander of the Army sniper school at Fort Benning, Ga., can't wait to get his hands on the new rifle. "The EXACTO would be revolutionary," he says. "It will more than double our range and probably more than double our accuracy." Current sniper rifles can regularly hit trucks at 2,000 meters, but not bad guys. (The record kill is 2,430 meters, just over 1.5 miles. It was charted by Canadian army corporal Rob Furlong against a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan's Shah-i-kot valley during Operation Anaconda in March...
...tell me how they trained you guys. One thing they did was send us to the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office - that's the county that Atlanta, Ga., belongs to - and they had us view an autopsy. That got us acclimated to the gore that we see. Fulton County also has a decomp room where they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom...
...team, which found itself mired in the middle of the pack during the entirety of the fall season, spring play seem to be offering new results. With the kickoff to the spring season, the Crimson settled for ninth in the 14-team field at the GEICO Intercollegiate in Savannah, Ga.“It was nice to play again after resting up for five months,” rookie Mark Pollak said. “I know some of the other guys are disappointed with how they did, but we got to take it with a grain of salt because...
Meanwhile, the mountainous terrain and high altitudes of Afghanistan have led the Army to increasingly emphasize rapid delivery of anything that can lighten a soldier's load. As a result, the U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning, Ga., is experimenting with a 4,000-lb, six-wheeled semiautonomous, supply-carrying robot vehicle called the Squad Mission Support System (SMSS), which will likely head to the mountains of Afghanistan for testing sometime next year...