Word: regimentally
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...Gulf war and now, one more. In person and in her book, She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story, the doctor, soldier, wife and mother - then 38 - wrote about her ordeal with a gung-ho matter-of-factness. As a flight surgeon assigned to the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms...
...mask, the extra socks. "I have about 18 pair with me," Beets says, because "you can't put a price on comfort." On the closet door hang his desert tan fatigues, sharp with new creases. Members of Beets' unit, Charlie Company of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, got word today that they should switch from their standard Army green camis to tan, intended to make infantrymen like Beets invisible in the sand, except for the blindingly bright American flag they have to sew on the right shoulder when they're about to deploy overseas so that allies can distinguish...
Landing in the middle of an al-Qaeda stronghold wasn't the way this mission was supposed to go. "If we had known they were there," says Grippe, the top enlisted man in the 1st Battalion of the 87th Infantry Regiment, "we would have landed someplace else." The U.S. troops didn't have the men or firepower to scale the rocks and wipe out the enemy fighters. But Perez and the others in command remembered the 1993 Somali fire fight--a panicky retreat in which 18 Americans were killed--and they decided to dig in. "We didn't run from...
...Urdu phrase is Shadeed Garmi, extreme heat. It was 120[degrees]F last week in Delhi, 110[degrees] in Islamabad and well over 100[degrees] in Kashmir. For the Indian grenadiers of the J.K. Light Infantry regiment and the Pakistani troopers of the 15th Northern Division entrenched on opposite sides of Kashmir's Line of Control, the torrid weather made for itchy trigger fingers and an eagerness to join the battle--anything would be better than pointlessly sweltering in full battle gear. For Calcutta day laborers and Lahore rickshaw drivers, the unseasonably warm weather meant abandoning the bricklaying or cruising...
...would have been challenging enough, but the Americans have taken on a far more arduous task. From the rubble, they are trying to train the nucleus of a new Afghan National Army (ANA)?multiethnic, apolitical, ready and able to protect the nation and its nascent government. And despite a regiment of glaringly apparent obstacles, they need to do it fast. "I'd rather have six months to one year" to train each battalion, says one instructor; instead, because of the urgency of the task, he's been given 10 weeks. Says commander Lt.-Col. Kevin McDonnell: "This is no easy...