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Has sent 200 élite soldiers to the Gulf, but denied they were playing a combat role - until photos of them posing with U.S. Marines turned up in the papers
No, it didn't occur to me that the missile flying over Camp Iwo Jima in the northern Kuwaiti desert might not be friendly. I'm a doctor, a medical correspondent, not a bang-bang journalist. But I noticed all the Marines around me were hitting the deck. Five seconds...
The day after he was killed, a chaplain and several military men arrived at the home of his foster parents in Lomita, just south of Los Angeles. ?My mom had heard on the news that day that two Marines had gone down that day,? says Cardenas, ?And so she asked...
Even during Tuesday's sandstorm, the U.S. 7th Cavalry fought off an attack by Iraqi guerrilla forces near Najaf, and fierce fighting continued Wednesday. U.S. Marines had earlier fought their way through Nasiriyah and across the Euphrates, but in that city too, fighting continues as Iraqi forces try to reinforce...
On the Marine convoy heading to Baghdad, communications have been a problem from the start and have gotten worse each day. Radios broke down, as well as vehicles in the convoy, causing a long line of machinery to spread out over twenty kilometers. Some vehicles had run out of food...