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...first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed to be taking sides in even the pettiest disputes among rival clans. Sergeant Kevin Anderson, a military-police officer, recalls sitting by in frustration as clan-vs.-clan arguments turned into free-for- alls. "Pretty soon," he says, "rocks would be flying back and forth from these David-and-Goliath slings they used. Then someone would go get a small- caliber weapon. Then someone...
...mostly from gunshot wounds. "After we were there," says Campagna, "the death rate dropped to three or four a day." That was a morale booster. So was the eventual sight of villages coming | alive again and fields being put back into cultivation. "As we were pulling out," says Sergeant Donald Grimm, "and you started to see all the crops, you'd say, 'We made a big difference in Somalia...
Stanford, Harvard's first female sergeant, isconsidered by many of her colleagues to be one ofthe department's best officers and investigators,but her complaint describes some male officers,including those under her supervision, as beingopenly hostile to her presence there...
Stanford's strongest criticisms are reservedfor Johnson. Her complaint charges that the chiefdeliberately held up her promotion. When Stanfordeventually earned the rank of sergeant, Johnsonlagged in scheduling the traditional luncheon andnever held a ceremony to give Stanford hersergeant...
...addition, Johnson went back on a verbalcommitment to raise her pay by between 20 and 30percent, as the department had done for othernewly minted sergeants. The complaint notes, andsources confirm, that when Lt. John F. Rooney waspromoted from sergeant in 1990, Johnson honored averbal commitment to raise the male lieutenant'spay. Shortly thereafter, a manager in theUniversity's department of human resourcesencouraged Stanford to file a discriminationcomplaint...