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...Iraqi desert, doors open, hot air blowing in like a blast furnace. That was in 2003, when I was an embedded reporter with an Air Force combat rescue unit. Today, as we tear across the woodlands of central Mississippi, I'm once again surrounded by guys in uniform whose mission is the same: to rescue people in need. But this time we are in my own country. The scene looks like a war zone, houses blown to splinters, cars abandoned on the roads, crowds of huddled refugees escaping a fallen city. It also smells like a war zone. Flying over...
...leave. Arunachalam Ashokan Quilon, India As a former french paratrooper and commando during the Algerian war, I was surprised by several aspects of your report on the way Iraqi insurgents have adapted their tactics to U.S. forces. That six Marine snipers could be killed so easily while on a mission, as your story reported, shows a basic tactical error: in a military situation of stealth, a prime rule is for members to stay widely apart so everyone doesn't get killed at once. Also, the lone soldier on patrol in the photo captioned "Carrying On" should have been taught that...
...think when you're the biggest and the best at what you do, people want to come after you," she says. Before Garner scored her contract with Wal-Mart, she flew to Wal-Mart's head office in Bentonville, Ark. Garner was on her own personal fact-finding mission. She had read much of the press on Wal-Mart and concluded that the company had got a raw deal. She returned convinced that Wal-Mart could be a great partner for the black community. "You know what I liked more than anything? Wal-Mart has a 10-foot rule, where...
...previous four months, he worked at his secret volunteer job until dawn, not as Shawn Carpenter, mid-level analyst, but as Spiderman--the apt nickname his military-intelligence handlers gave him--tirelessly pursuing a group of suspected Chinese cyberspies all over the world. Inside the machines, on a mission he believed the U.S. government supported, he clung unseen to the walls of their chat rooms and servers, secretly recording every move the snoopers made, passing the information to the Army and later...
...tanks for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the NASA probe launched in August. On the night he woke at 2, Carpenter copied a huge collection of files that had been stolen from Redstone Arsenal, home to the Army Aviation and Missile Command. The attackers had grabbed specs for the aviation-mission-planning system for Army helicopters, as well as Falconview 3.2, the flight-planning software used by the Army and Air Force...