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...military's not like that," Perez told her. "My first priority...
...Perez began lobbying to switch from the supply corps to the infantry--the muddy, bloody face of war where, even in the age of smart bombs, winning ultimately means taking ground inch by inch. In Korea and Vietnam the infantry accounted for only 4% of troops in the theater but more than 80% of those killed in battle. It took Perez nearly three years--along with a threat to quit and a pledge to serve at frigid Fort Drum in upstate New York for up to six years--to prevail. On Valentine's Day of 2000 he reported for training...
...Donia began Sept. 11, 2001, at Sears, outfitting the nursery for their first baby. Shoppers and clerks rushed toward the electronics department as row after row of television sets showed the same grim scene. That night Perez pondered his future. "Are you going to have to go somewhere now?" La Donia kept asking. "We're having a baby, so they're not going to send you, right...
Nearly a month later, on Oct. 7, the day U.S. warplanes began bombing Afghanistan, Perez and 1,000 fellow soldiers left Fort Drum for a Soviet-era air base outside the town of Khanabad, Uzbekistan, 90 miles north of the Afghan frontier. Their mission was simple but dull: Secure the airfield. "God, this can't go on for six months," Perez said to himself during one of his 12-hour shifts patrolling the earthen berms that encircle the base. "Something's got to happen...
...month later, Perez's platoon was ordered into northern Afghanistan to help quell a prison riot. His unit guarded John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, and protected the body of Johnny (Mike) Spann, the cia operative who was killed in the uprising and was the first American to die in the conflict. The contrast between the two Americans struck Perez. "It was tough to look at Walker, knowing he is an American and fighting for the other side and that he was the reason Mike Spann--a great American...