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After the meeting, Marinelarena, a Marine reservist who was activated in January, called his girlfriend from a base in North Carolina to congratulate her on her election and to serenade her with “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,” the fraternity’s traditional song, written in 1911. It is as if the song was written for Widland: “The blue of her eyes and the gold of her hair / Are a blend of the western sky / And the moonlight beams on the girl of my dreams / She’s the Sweetheart...
Some war blogs are first-hand accounts from soldiers stationed in the Middle East. The anonymous author at lt-smash.us says he is a reservist in the U.S. military stationed in the Persian Gulf. In one entry, he writes about a recent encounter with some locals: "They were glued to their satellite TV set, switching between al-Jazeera, Fox News, BBC, the local station and Iraqi TV. They especially enjoyed the female anchor on Fox, with her short skirt." At sgtstryker.com the mother of a female Marine posts excerpts from her daughter's e-mails. And at chinpokomon.com Naval Lieut. Commander...
Marinelarena, a Marine reservist, left school in January when he was called up and shipped out to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. Along with the rest of his company, Marinelarena has spent the last two months there, completing the final preparations...
...like being a reservist and supporting my country in a time of need,” he said...
With this in mind, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, himself a former Navy reservist, is thinking of swapping some active and reserve missions--putting more tank units in the reserves because they're less likely to be needed on short notice, and transferring more MPs, who must be deployed quickly, into the active force. "It doesn't make sense to have the people who are required very early in a conflict in the reserves," Rumsfeld told the Reserve Officers Association recently...