Word: regiment
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...army revoked awards for valour given to three army servicemen involved in a "friendly fire" incident during the Gulf War. Cpl. Douglas Lance Fielder was killed when soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment mistook his unit for a group of Iraqi soldiers. A report to be issued by the General Accounting Office recommends that the medals be revoked because the soldier's commanding officers lied about where the battle took place so that it looked as though Iraqi troops were involved in the engagement. The three soldiers will keep their Bronze Stars, which were given to nearly everyone...
Burning buildings illuminated the way in the gathering darkness as our column of three armored personnel carriers rolled down the empty central boulevard of Grozny. Our mission: to break through to the Samara motorized rifle regiment pinned down in front of the presidential palace during the Russian assault on the Chechen capital. We never made it. The way ahead was blocked by the wreckage of gutted Russian tanks. An ambush? I closed my eyes as I had often done as a child at the dentist's office, hoping that if my time was up, death would come quickly. We managed...
...British commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia, Lieut. General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations of top military officers, Canadian Defense Minister David Collenette announced the disbanding of the elite 660-member Airborne Regiment. The minister's decision followed a television broadcast of two amateur videos that depicted some of the paratroopers as racist and grossly undisciplined. Although the Chief of Defense Staff, General John de Chastelain, insisted that recent changes in command, personnel and procedures would restore the reputation of the unit, Collenette
...Airborne is considered one of Canada's best military formations, a crack 660-man unit founded in 1968 whose members have taken part in many overseas peacekeeping assignments for the U.N. A contingent from the regiment is currently serving in Rwanda. All 660 Airborne soldiers are scheduled to ship out in April to join a U.N. operation in Croatia, but that deployment may now be in jeopardy...
...videos show the prevailing culture of the Airborne was one that tolerated, and perhaps encouraged, racism and sadism,'' the Montreal Gazette said in an editorial last week. The daily urged the government to investigate the unit. ``The elite paratroop regiment looks out of control,'' declared the Toronto Star. ``We need answers,'' said Rubin Friedman, an executive of B'nai Brith in Ottawa. ``The issue goes beyond individual acts of racism and brutality and shows systematic dehumanization...