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...RETURNED HOME. CHARLES JENKINS, 65, U.S. Army sergeant who defected to North Korea in 1965 and lived there for 39 years before being allowed to emigrate to Japan in 2004; to Weldon, North Carolina. Jenkins said he wanted to visit his ailing 91-year-old mother. Jenkins served 25 days in a U.S. military jail in Japan last year after pleading guilty to desertion and aiding the enemy...
AWARDED. LEIGH ANN HESTER, 23, sergeant in the Kentucky National Guard; the Silver Star, making her the first woman to receive the honor since World War II; for her role in deterring insurgents and saving the lives of fellow soldiers during an ambush on a convoy in Iraq last March; in Washington. Hester, who received the award along with two men from her unit, plodded through enemy fire, killing at least three in an effort that resulted in the death of 26 or 27 insurgents and the capture of several more. "We're all soldiers, and we're all equal...
...infested Boyle Heights, says the antigang strategy developed in California and copied elsewhere "is bankrupt. You have the three-strikes law and jail and so on, but you can't terrify a kid into being hopeful about his future." Many cops agree. "We don't need new laws," says Sergeant Wes McBride, founder of the California Gang Investigators Association and a 28-year veteran of antigang policing. "We have a penal code a foot thick. You can't just work gangs with police suppression. You need prevention and intervention programs...
During a routine check of his medical condition, a sergeant approached al-Qahtani and whispered in his ear, "What is God telling you right now? Your 19 friends died in a fireball and you weren't with them. Was that God's choice? Is it God's will that you stay alive to tell us about his message?" At that point, the log states, al-Qahtani threw his head back and butted the sergeant in the eye. Two MPs wrestled al-Qahtani to the ground. The sergeant crouched down next to the thrashing terrorist, who tried to spit...
...Brian L. Baker, whose Paul Revere Battalion at MIT includes cadets from Harvard, said last fall that he would ask University President Lawrence H. Summers to allow the Army to post a captain and a sergeant on campus...