Word: infantryman
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...insurgents killed in there since we arrived in February. Every day is a nasty gun battle. They blast us with giant bombs in the road, snipers, mortars and small arms. We blast them with tanks, attack helicopters, artillery, our snipers (much better than theirs), and every weapon that an infantryman can carry. Every day. Incredibly, I rarely see Ramadi in the news. We have as many attacks out here in the west as Baghdad. Yet, Baghdad has 7 million people, we have just 1.2 million. Per capita, al-Anbar province is the most violent place in Iraq by several orders...
...They understand what it's like," Barrie says. "I am way over here in Afghanistan; I'm loved." One infantryman received a fiddle from his grandmother, even though he doesn't know how to play. But the way things are looking at FOB Maizan, he will have plenty of time to learn. That's not to say that there is nothing for the soldiers at Maizan to do - there is just less than there used...
...that brought Wallace and spiders together. In 1943, as an infantryman in New Guinea, he was reconnoitring in the jungle when he ran smack into a web and felt "this huge spider" scuttle onto him. A mate brushed it from his hair, but Wallace couldn't get the spider, a golden orb weaver, out of his head. "It was the size of it," he says. "And its silk was so strong...
...Paul Bunn is an old hand at combat, an infantryman who served in Panama and the first Gulf War. This latest experience was the worst. His unit in Baghdad, part of the military's quick-reaction force, which deployed for four-day stretches against insurgents, was hit by 37 improvised explosive devices while in Iraq, 13 in one day in Sadr City. Bunn still has nightmares about a rocket attack on his unit in April 2004. He spent two hours, he says, picking up "pieces and pieces and pieces" of bodies of U.S. soldiers. He remains agitated about...
...Greg Zielinski rebelled against the preppies of Fairfield, Conn., and came to West Point to be the toughest infantryman he could be. Tom Pae came from Newark, Calif., just east of San Francisco, as the son of Korean artists, to better himself and give back to his family's adopted country as a soldier and a leader. Tuscon native Kristen Beyer knew nothing about the army and entered West Point mainly to swim for its Division I team, but she stayed to pursue a new dream of flying Blackhawk helicopters...