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...ideal situation right now, one that I have never been in as a coach at Harvard,” Stone says of her platoon...
...Mahdi Army operatives from outside the neighborhood, militants who U.S. soldiers say are out to turn Washash into a Shi'ite bastion for al-Sadr on the west side of the Tigris. "Ninety percent of the problem comes from outside in," says 2nd Lieut. Graham Ward, an Army platoon leader who spends many days patrolling house to house on foot in the Washash area. "All fingers point to Sadr City...
...impressively by the three wind players, with especially tasteful work by the bassoonist Kara A. LaMoure ’10. Audience members less familiar with classical music perked up upon hearing the opening bars of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, popularized by the movie “Platoon.” Due perhaps to the tough psychological leap from Bach to Barber or the fact that the tempo was a bit too upbeat, the Barber Adagio was the least successful of the three pieces. Originally written as the second movement of Barber’s String Quartet...
...Even today, some officers say, Abizaid continues to speak in terms that don't match the fight on the ground in Iraq. "U.S. forces have never been defeated in a fight at platoon level or above and we never will," he told a military group last month. He's still missing the point, says one frustrated officer: "It's an irrelevant comparison because those types of encounters are rare or nonexistent in Iraq." Says another officer: "We're not fighting the Big Red Soviet Army here, we're dealing with hit-and-run guerrilla warfare...
...died an ordinary death, at least by today's standards in Iraq: a roadside bomb exploded as she led her platoon in a convoy south of Baghdad on Sept. 12. But what makes this death so difficult to understand even against Iraq's constant churn of violence is just how extraordinary this particular soldier...