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...started to calm down, we were warned that Iraqi special-ops forces were nearby. We put on our helmets and Kevlar vests and hunkered down in our tents. There would be no air cover, given the weather. Our unit couldn't withstand an attack by tanks or grenades--hell, the wind nearly took...
...forced to send its forces downtown to get him. Since Mogadishu, the U.S. has significantly improved its urban-combat readiness, training soldiers how to fight in claustrophobic environments in which 90% of the targets are less than 50 yards away. But nothing can prepare young soldiers for the relentless hell of the real thing. Urban engagements historically result in 30% casualty rates on both sides; while the U.S. believes it can cut its losses to 10% of its total urban fighting force, that would send U.S. casualty figures into the thousands...
...appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before being shot at, is likely to pull the trigger--then hope like hell it has not accidentally blasted a group of comrades...
...Stengel, Yogi Berra. Just to the north lies the Fort Bliss military reservation, spread across white sands. With winds kicking up the Chihuahuan Desert last week, the sky over El Paso was filled with irritating sand--much like that coating the troops in Iraq. Johnson, trapped in his own hell, doesn't notice. "The wait is extremely painful now," he says. "We just don't know what's going on." Until the International Red Cross confirms that his daughter is still alive and well, he will watch--and worry. --With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington and Sally B. Donnelly/Doha
...heat, and the incense of sulfur. To see him as the hurtful teddy boy in Days of Being Wild, the proud warrior in The Bride with White Hair and the dominant demon romancer in Phantom Lover is to realize there's nothing more exhilarating than a trip to hell with him at the wheel...