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Moulton was deployed to Kuwait in January 2003 and fought with the First Marine Regiment in the attack on the Iraqi capital. “Once the ‘war,’ as we knew it, was declared over,” Moulton said, his unit moved south to the town of Hillah...
...Seattle Seahawks, Dave McGinnis, then the Cardinals' head coach, got a call from U.S. Army Specialist Pat Tillman. Eighteen months after trading his Cardinals jersey for government-issue camouflage and six months after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, Tillman was back with his 75th Army Ranger Regiment at its base in Fort Lewis, Wash. Soon he would ship out again, this time to Afghanistan. But now he wanted to come see his old team play...
...Michael Teague--"Ice Man" to his Army buddies--sent an e-mail to a friend back home in Clarksville, Tenn., saying he loved Iraq and the excitement of his new six-figure-salary job. A former member of the Army's fabled Night Stalkers, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Teague had gone to Iraq just two weeks after his seventh wedding anniversary, hoping to help pay for his son's college education and get back in the thick of things. "This was the kind of work Mike loved," says friend John Menische. "He was a soldier and a warrior...
...Buffalo Soldiers are invading the diners and barbershops of South Carolina. The political soldiers, named after a 19th century black Army regiment, once stormed black neighborhoods to get out the vote for Bill Clinton. This year they are canvassing for Wesley Clark, but the battle isn't so simple this time. Last Thursday, as Buffalo Soldiers in black cavalry hats and boots gathered around Rhonda Court, 40, an apartment-complex manager eating lunch at LJ's Soul Food Cafe in Charleston, she wasn't satisfied with the cowboy pitch. "What's Clark all about on Medicaid and getting lower-income...
...died there, including those of the black troops, who played a major role in the fighting. "U.S. Colored Troops figured into the Crater [battle] more than you would think if you saw the movie," says John Coski, historian at Richmond's Museum of the Confederacy. One black Union regiment was trained to lead the charge in the battle after the gunpowder exploded. The soldiers were specifically told not to run into the crater that would form from the explosion; instead, they were to go around the hole. Before the battle, they sang songs celebrating their being given the chance...