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...safe, she'll never be close to any actual fighting. I trusted her unit, trusted the Army that she got the proper training." Jessica even had a special advantage. She had grown up with her dad's Kenworth cabover truck in the front yard; he gets $1 a mile driving anywhere from Florida to Connecticut. Now she would be the one steering five-ton trucks full of supplies to the front. "It's always in the back of your mind that something can happen," says Greg Lynch. "You wonder, Is the equipment ready? Have they trained enough...
...sharpened by three days with no sleep. "To me, we weren't ready," Lynch says. "But obviously they wouldn't have sent us over there if they didn't think we were ready." The 507th Maintenance Company was at the very end of an 8,000-vehicle, 100-mile-long supply convoy. From the start, Lynch says, "it just didn't feel right. It really kicked in once we got into Iraq...
...past 10 days, and each day brings not only an average of 30-35 ambush attacks on coalition troops, but also some new terror outrage or an audacious attack showing the insurgents' growing reach. Wednesday's tally, for example, included eight mortar shells lobbed into the most secure square mile in Baghdad, where the Coalition Provisional Authority is headquartered, and also a truck bombing in Nasiriyah that killed 17 Italian policemen and nine of the Iraqis they had been training. A CIA field analysis first reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that the insurgency is actually growing and attracting...
Over the 8000 meter course—just under five miles—McLean-Foreman averaged 4:58.6 minutes per mile. His time was just 18 seconds behind the winner, Steve Sundell of Columbia. Sundell will likely finish in the top 25 of NCAA runners...
Junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman had one of Harvard’s best performances in years, capturing second with a blazing time of 24:44.5. Averaging 4:58.6 per mile over the eight-kilometer (just under five-mile) course, McLean-Foreman ran the best Heptagonal race of any Harvard runner in 17 years and earned First-Team All-Ivy League honors...