Word: guardsmen
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...midnight fire fight on May 19, which killed one member of Task Force 1/9 and wounded three, was a foreshadowing of even more bold insurgent attacks. On the morning of July 7, a 100-person company of Iraqi National Guardsmen ventured onto Haifa Street to set up checkpoints. Almost immediately, they came under fire from the concrete forest of towering Soviet-style apartment blocks that line the wide, four-lane boulevard. After 50 minutes, Task Force 1/9 headed toward Haifa Street to evacuate the Iraqi troops. As a platoon moved toward a former palace of Saddam Hussein...
...doesn't mean coalition forces have marched off into the sunset; they're lurking just over the horizon. Across the capital last week, barbed wire and concrete barriers were hauled away, opening up some roads that have been blocked for a year or more for security reasons. Iraqi national guardsmen and police are taking over from coalition soldiers and MPs at many checkpoints and police stations...
...question so unsettles some former Guardsmen as much as this: If Bush did report, as he contends, why did he let his medical certification lapse around the same time--a full two years before his Guard commitment was up? Four years ago, the Bush campaign said Bush didn't undergo the physical because his family doctor was back in Texas. That explanation doesn't wash; only flight surgeons can perform Air Force exams, and there were plenty of those in Alabama. The official explanation has changed: the White House now says Bush didn't need to take the medical exam...
...Even when the training course is completed, there's no guarantee soldiers will stick to their commitment?on paper, four years of military service. Earlier this year, the British trained the 1st Battalion of the Afghan National Guard in a six-week crash course. In April, 550 new guardsmen graduated and took their posts. Since then, the number has dropped below 400 as disillusioned soldiers drift away to find other work or return to their home provinces. But as the Americans see it, in these parts that's par for the course. "The reality of doing this in Afghanistan...
...Kwan has spun and jumped flawlessly. More significantly, Flowers has become the first black athlete to win a gold medal in the Winter Games. She is joined in success on this magical night by Bakken, a former soccer player at Oregon State who was one of many U.S. National Guardsmen in attendance in Salt Lake last week; Parra, a Mexican American who had learned to skate on rollers in the streets of San Bernadino, Calif., and Kwan, the star from La La Land, perhaps the country's most famous citizen of Asian descent. The Winter Olympics had never before looked...