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...waiting farther back in order to clear out pockets of resistance and secure supply lines. "We want to keep the enemy on their heels," he says. So as the rest of the 7th Marine Regiment pushes north toward the capital, 3/4 Battalion plans to pick a fight at the rear of the convoy. "It's just a good opportunity to kill these guys," McCoy says. "I don't say that with a lot of bravado, but we're here to break their will. I don't want to sit on our asses all day with the enemy just over there...
...wore uniforms that allowed them to be identified from a distance. The armies were in Iraq to fight, the embedded reporters to report and the women and children to stand aside. The battlefield was defined in terms of boundaries--the southern oil fields, the Kurdish zone, the front, the rear--that promised to stay...
...then who would have thought that the war's great hero thus far would be a teenager assigned to the rear supply lines? Jessica Lynch, the person and the story, defies so many wartime stereotypes that she has forced us to create a new one: the scrappy, indomitable, steely soldier chick. Liberal feminists I know who reflexively opposed this war woke up changed women the morning that Lynch's exploits were described in the Washington Post. "I hope she blew them all away," one told me, her surging sense of pride and solidarity trumping her lifelong abhorrence of firearms...
...Guard forces protecting the city, Saddam's hold on power will crumble. But the decision to leave the southern cities unsecured has proved costly, as Fedayeen and Republican Guard troops dispatched to the south waited for U.S. armor to roll by before ambushing lightly armed supply teams in the rear. The battles have left the 50,000 troops at the coalition's spearhead--members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force--anxious, exhausted and short on water, food and fuel. In one instance, a Marine commander told his men they would be limited...
...pilotis in perfect alignment with an eerily column-like tree. The pilotis vary in diameter throughout the building, depending on the load they are forced to carry, and in many places are designed to give the building a feeling of freedom. This is most marked at the rear of the building, where 30-foot columns support the large, curved studio bay. The building at this point looks precarious, and indeed it is. According to William LeMessurier, a famous Cambridge structural engineer, if a large truck were to drive through one of the columns, that portion of the building would likely...