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...Lance corporal, U.S. Marine Corps. 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force...
...Private first class, U.S. Army. 1st Battalion, 18th Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division...
...strategy. "We're in competition with al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Dale Kuehl, "for who can protect the Sunnis better." Baghdad's Sunni population is largely confined to a narrow band west of the Tigris, extending from Mansour to the Baghdad airport. Kuehl and his 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment live in the middle of the Sunni stronghold, dug into a former police station. A floor-to-ceiling map of west Baghdad in Kuehl's operations center is marked with palm-size red arrows that show the Sunni population being squeezed top and bottom by Shi'ite militia. Coalition efforts...
...disorder.“I had destroyed my nervous system on no sleep, controlled substances and looked like a frightful mess,” he says. Noticing something amiss, the army doctor asked Adams to return for repeated visits. Adams had 15 physicals in total. On this extended regiment of no sleep, Adams recalls a particularly harrowing incident.“I walked out of my house and onto Mass Avenue and [saw] a mass of soldiers coming towards me.” Having not slept in days, Adams panicked, thinking the troops were there to conscript him. Only later...
...TIME spoke to Gregg in 2005, when it first published details of the mission. He expressed grave concerns about the army's handling of the incident and other Special Air Service Regiment patrols in Afghanistan. He said after the patrol he had been pressured to write a report which reflected badly on the patrol commander. "That poor bugger the patrol commander has been through hell and back," he said at the time...