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...outlet in north Bogota last month was one of several recent bombings that security officials have linked to the FARC. Meanwhile, the rebels continue to traffic cocaine, a lucrative business that provides the guerrillas some 70% of their income. In addition, the guerrillas still hold 23 police and army NCOs as bargaining chips for a prisoner swap, and are still kidnapping regular civilians for ransom. "The fact that they released a few prisoners is welcome," says Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. "But I don't see any fundamental change in the FARC. I'm very...
...will return to Baghdad in the Petraeus slot, giving up his new assignment as the Army's No. 2 officer after only two months back in the U.S. "There is no question that there are a handful of generals, like a lot of captains and enlisted soldiers and the NCOs," Gates said, "who have had repeated tours in Iraq...
...Iraq, commanding units of their own in an environment as hazardous and chaotic as West Point is placidly structured. If there's one doubt that eats at the world of certainties Zielinski has built for himself, it's whether he will be able to earn the respect of NCOs--noncommissioned officers. In the real Army, it's the sergeants--experienced, usually older enlisted men and women who serve at lieutenants' sides--who keep the green young officers from making deadly mistakes. The skills needed for leading enlisted troops, who are often older or from lower incomes or rougher cultures than...
...seems to have come from. A tank pumps in more tracer. From the roof of an unfinished building, Marines blast the target with machine guns, providing protective cover. The rest of the Marines pull back, running across a field and over to bushes, urged on by yelling noncommissioned officers (NCOs). They expect the insurgents to harass them all the way back to their base. One young man falls and lies prone on the ground, his head pressed down as if afraid something might hit him. His hands shake uncontrollably. Chachi, a member of Easy Company's intelligence unit who asks...
...look at the army so far, 60% of the recruits are from the old army, and 100% of the officers and NCOs are from the old army. So we are involving the old army in building up the new one. We want to be careful about bringing senior officers back into the army, because they tend to be tainted by some of the excesses of the previous regime...