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...Army and Army Reserve, Captain Dusty Pruitt, an ordained minister, taught soldiers to defend themselves against chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Her expertise could have been vital in the war against Saddam Hussein. But during Operation Desert Storm, Pruitt was neither protecting nor ministering to soldiers in the Persian Gulf. Her battleground was the Ninth Circuit Court in California, where she was busy fighting to overturn the Army's 1986 decision to discharge her because she is a lesbian. "It's sad," she says, "that the military wastes time bothering people about what they do in their private lives rather...
During the Persian Gulf war, women distinguished themselves in the cockpits of helicopters, midair refueling tankers and the lumbering C-141 transport jets that ferried troops across enemy lines. Their performance and that of all the 35,000 women who served in the gulf has generated support in Congress and public opinion for broadening the role of females in the military. Last week in a landmark move the Senate voted overwhelmingly to overturn a 43-year-old law that bars women from flying combat missions. Said Delaware Senator William Roth, who co-sponsored the amendment with Senator Edward Kennedy...
...doesn't come with air conditioning or stereo, but it's been tested in real battlefield conditions. Humvee, which is short for High- Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, is the new U.S. Army jeep. Deployed first in combat in Panama, some 20,000 Humvees were used in the Persian Gulf war. Starting last week, the Humvee was being offered for sale to the public by defense contractor LTV, which is trying to diversify its way out of bankruptcy...
...told of his days learning music from his sharecropper father. "Folks ain't so bad off now," he said. "It ain't as low down as it used to be. Blues ain't as sad." Then the Oil Man lifted his head and sang a few lines -- about the Persian Gulf...
While America has celebrated a swift, efficient victory in the Persian Gulf, a tour of hospitals inside Iraq tells the story of a different war. This one is still being fought, against epidemic disease and starvation, the conflict's sorry legacies. Its principal victims are children. The tour, sponsored by the Arab-American Medical Association for doctors of Iraqi extraction, afforded unprecedented access to the country's ravaged medical system and desperate doctors and patients. But even on the street, the hunger and suffering were palpable. "I was shocked by the look on people's faces," Cleveland physician Nadia...