Word: maupin
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Occasionally, the constant flow of Iraqi prisoners through U.S.-run prisons in Iraq yields leads about Maupin's whereabouts. According to U.S. military officers in Iraq, an Iraqi detainee recently led U.S. forces to the shallow grave of William Bradley, a civilian killed in the assault on Maupin's convoy. The detainee also fingered a gang in his village of Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, as the men involved in the attack in which Maupin went missing. In the first week of January, U.S. and Iraqi special forces raided the village, seized eight suspects--one of whom...
...Matt Maupin, born while Ronald Reagan was president, is partial to Superman, Star Wars and teriyaki beef jerky. He grew up in a trim ranch house with a basketball hoop next to the driveway and his prized red 1998 Mustang in the garage. "You can pick out most of the guys who go into the military because they walk with a certain attitude," says Nick Ayers, who played with Maupin on their high school football team, the Trojans. "But Matt was really laid-back." That quietness was infused with a drive that pushed him onto the team, as a second...
After high school, Maupin toyed with the idea of enlisting in the military but instead enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, studying aerospace engineering before switching to nutritional science. He also worked at the local Sam's Club warehouse store, stocking shelves. "He still works here," manager Mitch Cohen says. "He's just on a military leave of absence, and his job will be here for him when he returns." There's a tabletop display about Maupin at the front of the store, one of several in the area. Cohen, who has worked in New York and Florida, says...
...August 2002, Maupin's mother recalls, "he just came to me in my bedroom one day and said, 'Mom, I joined the Army Reserve today.' And I said, 'Oh, Matt, you didn't. Why did you do it, especially at this time?' He was old enough so there wasn't anything I could do." Matt told her he signed up to earn money for school. Carolyn, 57, said they could have managed college without his enlisting. "I don't want to manage, Mom," he told her. "I want to get it done." He soon headed off to basic training...
...want to do, but there's a war going on over there, and I don't care if you're in the reserves or not, you could get activated.'" At that time, U.S. forces were still fighting in Afghanistan, and rumbles of war in Iraq were growing louder. Maupin's brother Micah followed him into the service a year later, joining the active-duty Marines. Keith had served in the Marines for four years in the early 1970s...