Word: sergeant
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...Petraeus says. "Yet he never stopped driving the roads, walking patrols, and going on missions with our troopers." (Mellinger's 33-month Iraq tour was punctuated by 27 roadside bombings, including two that destroyed his vehicle, although he managed to escape injury.) Mellinger now serves as the Command Sergeant Major, the senior enlisted man in the Virginia headquarters of the Army Materiel Command, trying to shrink what he calls the "flash-to-bang time" between recognizing what soldiers need and getting it to them...
...subway - will be used above ground, to sniff the air for biological or chemical agents. They'll be aided by at least four Army dogs that will be sniffing for hidden explosives. Mike, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois, has worked presidential details before, according to his handler, Staff Sergeant Daniel Konrardy. The dog is calm in crowds and the only thing that bothers him is gunfire. "Hopefully, we won't be hearing any gunfire," Konrardy says. Snipers will be discreetly sprinkled along the parade route, and along with a battery of surveillance cameras, they'll ensure that anything suspicious...
...government's former headquarters in Saddam Hussein's ornate, marble-filled republican palace, which was handed back to the Iraqis when the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve. The new place is stark and practical - like a "straightforward business office," except with heavy security, says Master Sergeant Patrick McDonald, who heads the embassy's work on the upcoming Iraqi elections. He adds, "In a way, you sort of miss the touch of Saddam...
...with the Task Force last Wednesday and appreciated “the institutional support provided by the University and the commitment of the chair to producing not just a paper report but a working document that can effect change.” Delle also specifically praised HUPD Sergeant and Community Policing Supervisor Kevin Bryant, who he said has “personally and consistently reached out to the Black community.” “Sgt. Bryant is a great man who has earned the deepest respect of the BMF and the black community at large...
...theater as a medium communicates truth. The middle piece is based on a war crime in Iraq in which an American lieutenant was accused (and eventually acquitted) of wrongly executing two insurgents. Fragments of a two-sided narrative develop through the dialogue between the lieutenant and the sergeant who accuses him. Bohrer explores how to present the ambiguities of the story through theater. “Leaving things up to the imagination really draws the audience in,” he says. He stages much of his action in the dark and at one point plays flashlights across the audience...