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American women have served in every U.S. military conflict since the Revolution, usually as nurses or spies, but the country has never been comfortable with sending them into harm's way. Congress bars women from engaging in offensive warfare with the enemy. In response to dwindling military-recruiting numbers and...
Military officers say that the performance of female soldiers in Iraq offers little evidence to back a common argument against the use of women in combat: that they are more likely than men to panic under fire. Marine Colonel Bob Chase, who oversees the training of new Marine officers in...
CHARGED. STAFF SERGEANT CHAD CARPENTIER and LANCE CORPORALS DANIEL SMITH, DOMINIC DUPLANTIS and KEITH SILKWOOD; with the rape of a 22-year-old Filipino woman; in Olongapo City, the Philippines. The four U.S. Marines, in the country to participate in military exercises, are accused of raping the woman in a...
"'My mind is constantly wandering off,' he says. 'If they ever want to evolve a way of picking out the prospective novelists among children, this would be the aspect to go for, this drifting off' ... After attending [an English public] school, Fowles served in the British marines, which he hated...
Exeter grad, Ivy-leaguer, and Marine. Peter H. Brooks ’06 breaks the mold. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, inspired Brooks—Brooksy to his friends—to join the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) the summer before his first year at...