Word: guardsman
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...goes, 'America, they dumb. They bomb wrong palace.'" CORPORAL JONATHAN REESE, Pennsylvania National Guardsman assigned to watch over Saddam Hussein, quoting the deposed Iraqi leader's comments on the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
...school district too, the war created holes that had to be filled and that began to feel like a contagion. First, grade-school librarian Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones...
...them telling the captive, a Bahraini named Halim, that he was going to be all right. On the ground outside the shower I noticed a pool of dark red blood; the detainee had apparently cut his wrists with a razor. Sitting on the cellblock steps was a trembling National Guardsman, a kid of no more than 19, trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette...
...bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that, I was a train wreck, dumbfounded," he says, weeping softly in his four-bed hospital room. In many rooms along these long hospital corridors, soldiers tell similar tales of grief and pain. Across the hall, Sergeant Chris Chilles, 28, a California National Guardsman, says he was standing in the gun turret of his Humvee near Mosul a few mornings before, thinking about the Philadelphia cheesesteak he would have for lunch, when a roadside bomb exploded in front of his vehicle. The massive blast ripped through the Humvee, throwing Chilles to the floor...
That, however, would probably complicate recruitment challenges for the Reserves. As it is, says Paul Rieckerhoff, 29, a New York Guardsman who spent a year in Iraq, the Guard has lost its allure as repeated deployments have made it more like the active-duty force. "People in the Guard never thought they'd make up 40% of the force [in Iraq] and have six months of training and a year of boots-on-the-ground overseas," he says. "It's become a serious commitment that's going to disrupt your civilian life indefinitely...