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...faced with the additional threat of a rebel force hiding out in the caves of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. launched Operation Mongoose. Their target: the Adhi Ghar range of mountains, a favorite base of the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Honeycombed with caves, these granite ridges rear up out of the desert and are covered in a jumble of boulders that offer perfect cover for snipers. In recent weeks, this hideout had become the base for a new enemy commander whom the U.S. is now confronting for the first time: Hafiz Abdul Rahim, a rebel chieftain and former...
...face to hear people talking about it that way." She knows that her husband's job is as dangerous as any other. Beets is a grenadier, in charge of four other soldiers who would go into battle crammed, like bullets in a magazine, into the tiny, noisy, jouncing rear compartment of a Bradley fighting vehicle. Their job is to clear enemy forces before the rest of the unit arrives...
...rear end of the vehicle sags due to the weight of the tank in the trunk,” wrote HUPD fleet manager Frank DiRienzo in an e-mail to Brown. “I put two other people in it besides myself and it just about left the bumper on the sidewalk...
...YEAR'S DAY ACCIDENT WAS terrible. A rear tire blew out on the Isuzu SUV as it traveled on Florida's "Alligator Alley" west of Fort Lauderdale, flipping the vehicle and hurling several members of a family onto the highway. A girl perished on the highway; her brother would die hours later. Medical personnel who happened to be in the surrounding cars rushed to the rescue of the other victims. A physician helped clear the windpipe of a woman and resuscitate two of the other injured, staying long enough to direct the arriving paramedics to those who most needed help...
...praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever." Bronson believes, and his stories prove, that failure is how you eliminate the wrong turns on the way to the right one. And that when you fall off your horse, sometimes all you get is a bruised rear end, but sometimes the horse is trying to tell you something...