Word: hawkings
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...staff in the 40-bed battlefield hospital. "There was no system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries in a nonstop 36-hour stint. Haunted by the event, Holcomb and others began pushing for change. Army and Air Force commanders together argued that the military needed a joint medical strategy...
...hospital received another jolt to its system: Colonel Rhonda Cornum. Her appointment as head of the hospital was a sharp break after 50 years of all-male leadership. Her combat credentials were impeccable, however. As a flight surgeon on attack missions during the 1991 Gulf War, Cornum's Black Hawk 214 was shot down over southern Iraq. Five of the eight people aboard died, and she ended up in enemy captivity, with both arms broken and a bullet in her shoulder. During her eight days as a pow - one of only two female U.S. prisoners in that...
...twist on Bush's favorite message. He delights in defying expectations, and he can't resist tweaking the ears of all those who looked at his college transcript and voted him most likely to hawk siding. He also can't resist, because he's in the middle of prospecting for a bigger comeuppance: he'll show all those naysayer who claim his plan for Social Security is dead. " Someone said, 'It's a steep hill to climb, Mr. President,'" he told the audience at the University of Notre Dame a week ago. "Well, my attitude is, the steeper, the better...
...other rookies on the team, Dominic DeNunzio and Matt Button, were also unable to give Harvard a win. In the match following Baria’s win, Lehigh’s David Nakasone defeated DeNunzio 6-3, and began a Mountain Hawk string of six uncontested victories. Button fell by major decision to Matt Anderson...
...Lincoln will eventually have to be relieved, perhaps by the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. But for now, no one is in a hurry to see this tour of duty end. "Frankly, I don't care how long we're here," Moffet says. "We're not going to leave these people hanging." Sailors on the Lincoln receive constant emails from buddies elsewhere offering to pitch...