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Early-morning light spills into the physical-therapy room at Walter Reed, as wounded soldiers sweat and grimace aboard stationary bicycles. Each man is steadily grinding out the miles with a single leg, his crutches leaning against a nearby wall. This morning happy-go-lucky PFC Wyatt meets with Joseph Miller, the hospital's chief prosthetist, who makes wounded soldiers close to whole again with man-made arms and legs. The types of wounds coming back from Iraq--blast and shrapnel injuries--make his job tougher. "Those kinds of injuries mean more infections and multiple surgeries," he says. Wyatt nods...
JULY 3 COREY SMALL RANK: PFC * AGE 20 * East Berlin...
JULY 3 JIM HERRGOTT RANK: PFC * AGE 20 * Shakopee, Minn...
Indeed, we are reminded on a seemingly daily basis of just what makes the American soldier so unique. Consider the story of Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer, whose picture, by now, you’ve likely seen in a newspaper or on television. Pfc. Dwyer is an Army medic who enlisted two days after Sept. 11. (His three brothers are New York City police officers). Last Tuesday, his unit, the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, was ambushed by Hussein’s troops as they advanced northward along the Euphrates River. The Iraqis were firing from both sides...
...Good Men follows the defense of Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson (Camilo E. Becdach ’05) and PFC Louden Downey (Zachary A. Corker ’04) by Lt. JG Daniel Kaffee (Eric M. Chesin ’02). The two are charged with the murder of a fellow marine, PFC William T. Santiago (Matthew A. Romero ’02) at the Naval Air Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Santiago’s death is ultimately revealed as part of a cover-up that leads to the heights of the chain of command and forces Kaffee...