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...beach in front of their attackers and engage them head on. Kerry's boat was providing cover when a rocket hit it. Kerry jumped ashore to chase a Viet Cong with a rocket launcher and killed him. SBVT says Kerry simply shot a wounded teenager in the back. Former Lieut. Commander George Elliott, Kerry's direct superior, said in a recent affidavit that he wouldn't have awarded Kerry a Silver Star if he had known the details...
...garbage out. Commanders concede they have had little success getting intelligence about insurgent movements. Locals are often too hostile or afraid of reprisals to provide info. That's where the new Iraqi forces are meant to come into the picture. "The Iraqis will be our eyes and ears," says Lieut. General Thomas Metz, commander of the Multinational Corps in Iraq. "This is their country, these are their people...
...understand the psychological effects of a U.S. war while it is ongoing. Most of the participants were screened within three or four months of returning from battle, when memories--and any psychological wounds--were still fairly fresh. "One of our goals is to describe the onset of PTSD," says Lieut. Colonel Carl Castro, a Walter Reed psychologist, who led the study along with Dr. Charles Hoge. Many experts believe that early identification of symptoms and early intervention could help prevent the kind of massive psychological devastation seen in veterans of the Vietnam War. Some 30% of Vietnam vets eventually suffered...
...their units are deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq. Tapping into anxiety about a possible draft, Kerry has likened these moves to a "back door" version of one. After last week's announcement, Kerry's national security adviser Rand Beers said, "Today that back door swung wide open." Retired Lieut. General Theodore Stroup, who directed Army personnel during Gulf War I, remarks, "This is not a draft. There will be some people who are upset, because they had planned on getting on with their lives." But, says Stroup, "you do sign an obligation...
...April 1805, Captain William Eaton put together a mixed force of Arab rebels and mercenaries and American Marines, and in a maneuver that has since been compared to that of the charismatic T.E. Lawrence, led a desert march from inland that took Tripoli's second city, Derna, by surprise. Lieut. Presley O'Bannon of the Marine Corps hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the captured town, and the Marine anthem preserves his gesture to this...