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...sense. Rather than deploying as one unit backed up by a range of artillery, members fan out in small groups to help reinforce their Afghan brothers, often taking the forward positions. By threat or persuasion, the 55th tries to instill its sense of fearlessness, and discipline, in the Afghan rank-and-file--and goes so far as to shoot those daring to retreat. Even among all the notorious players in Afghanistan, the brigade enjoys a particularly brutal reputation for butchering opposition forces. And if the U.S. enters a ground war, the 55th is sure to draw blood...
...system works roughly in the following way. First, students are assigned values that correspond with SAT I scores, SAT II scores, and overall class rank. Each component can vary from 20 to 80 points and all three are added up to get an index ranging from 60 to 240 points. For the SAT scores, much like in the regular admissions process, the highest combination of scores is used...
Take someone who scored a 700 verbal and 650 math on the SAT I, a 750 on the SAT II Writing test, and who ranked first out of a class of 300 students. The class rank, being the highest the student could achieve, would be an 80 and then the top two SAT scores (the SAT I verbal and SAT II writing) would add up to 145 (70 + 75). The index for this applicant would be a 225 out of a possible...
...Fitzsimmons stresses that it was “a personal qualities case” and that the candidate’s AI score was not representative of actual work done or potential growth because said applicant hailed from a rural area and had transferred schools which affected his class rank. In addition, this particular student showed “reassuring test scores” and “sounded extraordinary...
...years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority not over some alphabet-soup unit in a regimental chain of command but instead over a specific band of 20 men and boys who know each other and fight as much for the guy next to them as for any grand cause...