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...male cadets, but they want to prove themselves as soldiers. It can feel like a dual life, slipping out of combat boots and into high heels—and back to boots again. These women still want to be part of the band of brothers. THE SERGEANT MAJOROn an outdoor track at MIT, the ROTC students, called cadets, stand in a four-row formation. Everyone is dressed identically—camouflage pants, camouflage jackets. One cadet comes forward to start physical training. This is the sergeant major, a senior responsible for the smooth functioning of the whole Paul Revere battalion?...
...wasn’t too big, but you could smell the smoke on the fourth floor,” she said as she stood outside with a bathrobe under her jacket. “You could smell it through the fireplace.” Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Sergeant Robert Cooper, who was at the scene, said that HUPD responds any time a fire alarm is set off. “You could see it burning,” he said. “There was a lot of smoke coming out.” Barksdale said that similar...
...ofthe mostheartbreaking and infuriating things I have read about President George W. Bush's filthy war of choice is the deployment of medic Sergeant Dywata Reynolds, who had to leave her 4-month-old daughter to go to Iraq. What has our nation come to? It is becoming increasingly difficult to say I am proud to be an American...
...can’t arrest your way out of these problems,” referring to the recent rise in Boston’s murder rate. In Boston, there were 75 homicides—the highest in ten years—last year, Boston Police Department Sergeant Thomas Sexton told The Crimson last month. Barrios said that he believes he would have more impact on crime rates as a district attorney than as a legislator. “Where the rubber hits the road in criminal justice is in the DA’s office,” he said...
...despite such displays of mettle, acceptance from some of the guys is grudging. Says a military-police sergeant in Baghdad: "I've got nothing against them. But they're slower and weaker"--and therefore would be a liability in hand-to-hand combat. Some commanders grumble about the loss of personnel in their units as a result of shipping home pregnant women. When Collins brought a group of female soldiers--assigned to search women during raids on suspected insurgent hideouts--to the 10th Mountain infantry's camp, she says, "the men all had one big frown...