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...It’s about your friends,” he said. “I have a platoon of 35 young men...‘the grunts,’ on the front lines wherever the Marines...
...Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company, part of the 1st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, are withdrawing under fire. At 4:30 that morning, 150 Marines had moved into the southern edge of the city to destroy two bunkers that insurgents were using to fire on their positions. Easy's Third Platoon moved in to inspect one of the buildings, which had been hit the day before by a 500-lb. bomb. Platoon Commander 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano reported back that they had found gun emplacements and binoculars and that the building was still usable by insurgents. Another Marine later recalled...
...Portrait of a Platoon," written by Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Weisskopf and edited by Lisa Beyer and Steve Koepp, won the National Headliner Award for war coverage, while Joe Klein won first place in the magazine-column category. Weisskopf and Nachtwey won the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage from the Los Angeles Press Club. And Weisskopf, Brian Bennett and Michael Ware won honorable mention for best magazine reporting from abroad from the Overseas Press Club for a series of Iraq pieces...
Everyone who works at TIME deserves credit for these prizes, since putting together the magazine each week is such a collaborative process. Some of us involved in the "Portrait of a Platoon" project gathered for lunch on the afternoon of the Overseas Press Club awards to toast the winners and talk about what an extraordinary time it is to be a journalist. Looking around the room that day, I felt grateful for getting to work with so many talented colleagues--and for having so many readers who appreciate their work...
...named Abdullah tells a U.S. sergeant. "Can I shoot them?" The sergeant tries to calm him, explaining that the rules of engagement do not permit the use of deadly force against hecklers. At this point, Adnan, 37, former explosives specialist in the Iraqi army who is one of the platoon sergeants for the battalion, intervenes. "Cool down," he tells Abdullah. "Just remember that everyone here hates us, and keep on with your work...