Word: patrollers
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From the instant Kilo Company set foot in Ramadi, the Marines knew they were in the middle of an insurgent hotbed. Lance Corporal Jose (Syco) Tasayco was on the unit's earliest patrol outside the wire in March. "The first day was an eye opener. We got contact, that first patrol. It was like, wow, we couldn't believe it, but we got outta there good. Nobody got hit," he says. The Marines are based in the battle-scarred Government Center in the middle of Ramadi, a magnet for al-Qaeda attacks--one of the few ways the Marines...
...adopted a tough-on-crime stance to help him elsewhere in the state in his race for attorney general. But as Brown questions the cops at headquarters, he doesn't sound like their friend. How many cops are on the street right now? How many of them are on patrol, and how many are responding to calls? Why don't we know that? Are they all paid the same? Is there special pay for the more effective officers? What time does crime pick up in the day? When does it slack off? It goes on like that for nearly...
...known as the "survivors' war," because of the all-time high ratio of wounded who returned home alive. I was one of them, thanks partly to the Army field hospital featured in HBO's extraordinary documentary, "Baghdad ER." Injured in a grenade attack while reporting on a December 2003 patrol, I was sent to a facility built by Saddam Hussein for his inner circle and commandeered by the U.S. military. Doctors operated on what was left of my right arm and sent me to Germany three days later, giving me a generally favorable impression of military medicine. But from...
...Blowing the Whistle on YouTube The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security cameras have blind spots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their...
President Bush's plan to bolster security on the U.S.-Mexican border has the aura of a renewed White House about it. The possible use of military resources--including deployment of National Guard troops and aerial drones to patrol the frontier--emerged as Bush aides brainstormed about how to spend border-security funds recently approved by the Senate. Some Governors questioned adding another burden to forces already strained by deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, but the idea delighted conservatives, who see it as the kind of strong move needed to secure the porous border...