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...spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but to monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border Patrol...
...Iraqi special-ops units like the one that captured Tamimi are spearheading that push. TIME was recently granted access to the Iraqi commandos and their U.S. advisors, observed their training sessions and accompanied the units on patrol. While their numbers are few, Iraqi special forces have assumed a bigger role in sensitive counter-insurgent operations, often acting as the lead teams in raids and rescue missions. In some cases, Iraqi units have used intelligence gleaned from locals to identify their own low-level targets, and then execute small raids on their own. Trained by Task Force Pioneer, a unit drawn...
...placebo effect,” as some have termed it, seems to be what administrators and walkers feel HUCEP contributes most to the community-at-large. According to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, although most nights will see only two escorts, when walkers patrol the campus in their recognizable neon yellow-green jackets, students feel safer just knowing they are out on the streets...
Bozik, a native of Wilmington, N.C., was on patrol south of Baghdad looking for roadside bombs when his humvee rolled over a mine. "Why would I bother thinking life is unfair?" he says, in reply to a question. "I've already been set back in life with the loss of my limbs. Why would I want to hurt myself more?" In his first two weeks at Walter Reed, psychiatrists and psychologists poured through Bozik's door, offering a sympathetic ear. They don't stop by anymore; Bozik has convinced them that he doesn't need them...
...posttraumatic stress disorder into three categories. Batchelor, found to have the disorder, fits every bill, including: nightmares and flashbacks; estrangement and emotional numbness; irritability and difficulty sleeping. Every night he fights sleep, knowing it will bring a replay of the day his unit was sent to rescue a patrol that had been ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, and fell into a ferocious firefight. "It was like the entire city was shooting at us," Batchelor says, pacing around the room. "I saw the guy shooting at me. He was on a rooftop, and I saw the muzzle flash. It sounds weird...