Word: platoons
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Round faced and freckled, Audrey, 29, has a petite frame that belies her durability. She was in the military as a private first class until 1996 and has experienced separation before, when her husband went to Bosnia. But like many of the other wives connected to the Tomb Raiders platoon, based in Giessen, Germany, she has built a virtual fortress around her home while her husband is away. It is a wall held up by willful ignorance, busy days caring for two small children and a rare kind of friendship with other military wives...
...PLATOON'S STORY...
...reporting, in fact, was already under way. We decided to tell much of our story through a single platoon in Iraq: an artillery survey unit in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division. Based in Germany, the platoon arrived in Baghdad in late May and soon got nicknamed the Tomb Raiders after being assigned the task of looking for weapons hidden in one of the city's cemeteries. Shortly before Thanksgiving, our team gathered in Baghdad to embed with the Tomb Raiders. Romesh Ratnesar, a writer based in New York City who had already spent three months this year...
...three weeks, the team ate, slept and went on patrol with the Tomb Raiders. Jim shot thousands of photographs of the platoon and its headquarters unit, some of which can be seen in the photo essay that begins on page 42. Jim also photographed the cover, which features platoon members Sergeant Marquette Whiteside, Specialist Billie Grimes and Sergeant Ronald Buxton. On the evening of Dec. 10, our team was deep into its reporting when something happened that underscored the violence in Iraq and would change the lives of several people forever...
...feet in all directions. In this case, the combination of Michael's hand and the bench below it contained enough of the blast to save the life of everyone in the back of the truck. You can read the full details of the incident in "Portrait of a Platoon," which begins on page...