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...affirmative action, is bald-faced. Montana, for instance, still has about 100 one-room schoolhouses where the educator is a teacher, counselor and principal all-in-one. These schools struggle to meet basic accreditation standards, much less offer “AP courses,” or a full regiment of math and science. And SATs? Pretty much out of the question without a 100-mile drive...
This is not the war this Army unit--officially known as the Survey Platoon, Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of the 1st Armored Division--was trained to fight. On a traditional battlefield, field-artillery survey units stay behind the front lines and use gyroscopic devices to measure the distance to enemy positions so the Army's big guns can hit their targets. That was the job this platoon, based in Giessen, Germany, pictured for itself when it received deployment orders in March, before the start of the war with Iraq. The group, now nicknamed the "Tomb Raiders...
...intelligence sources tell TIME that over the past month they were getting better leads. "In the last three to four weeks, our forces have been able to capture people we've been hunting all summer," said Lieut. Colonel Steven Russell, the commander of the 4th's 122 Infantry Regiment. "This was the inner circle, and we were taking pieces out of it." Last week they could tell they were getting closer and closer. "Four days ago, an individual was captured that led to the capture of the man we believed was Saddam's right-hand man," Russell told TIME...
...intelligence sources tell Time that over the past month they were getting better leads. ?In the last three to four weeks, our forces have been able to capture people we?ve been hunting all summer,? said Lieut. Colonel Steven Russell, the commander of the 4th?s 1-22 Infantry Regiment. ?This was the inner circle, and we were taking pieces out of it.? Last week they could tell they were getting closer and closer. ?Four days ago, an individual was captured that led to the capture of the man we believed was Saddam?s right-hand man,? Russell told Time...
...horns. These guys were heroes. I thought to myself, That's what I want--recognition, a sense of accomplishment." And so he enlisted. Trained as a paratrooper, Bear served in Afghanistan last year and arrived in Iraq two months ago with Charlie Company of the 1-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. "Nobody has delusions of grandeur that we're going to be the ones to catch Saddam Hussein," says Bear, 33, sitting in his makeshift sleeping quarters at the battalion's base--a former Baath Party resort named Dreamland, just outside Fallujah. "We're just here...