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Until this week, only a few things about the strange, long-ago disappearance of Charles Robert Jenkins were known beyond a doubt. In the bitter cold of Jan. 5, 1965, the 24-year-old U.S. Army sergeant was leading a night reconnaissance patrol near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North Korea from South Korea. At around 2:30 a.m., he told his radioman and another soldier he was going to investigate the road up ahead. He disappeared down the hill-and never came back...
...cipher has spoken. Nearly 40 years after that dawn patrol, Sergeant Jenkins appeared on Wednesday before a U.S. one-day general court-martial at Camp Zama, near Tokyo. From a packed courtroom and closed-circuit viewing hall, the world got its first extended look at the soldier who came in from the cold. Jenkins seemed to be neither the treacherous turncoat the American military and some media accounts had portrayed, nor an innocent victim of abduction. Instead, the world saw a frail, fragile, frequently weeping old man who was, back in that day in 1965, a scared, drunk, tired...
...disloyalty, Jenkins came to court with a pretrial agreement in which he would plead guilty only to desertion and aiding the enemy. (He taught English to military cadets in Pyongyang from 1981 to 1985.) In exchange, he would receive a guaranteed maximum of 30 days' confinement. During the proceedings, Sergeant Jenkins filled in many of the missing gaps of his life, explaining why he decided to desert to North Korea, the first 15 years of material and emotional hardship during which he said he wished almost daily for death, how he met his future wife in 1980, and his life...
SENTENCED. STAFF SERGEANT IVAN FREDERICK II, 38, highest-ranking Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in prison; during a court martial in Baghdad. The sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five of eight charges, is one of seven charged in the scandal; his sentence is the longest of the three imposed thus...
Still, the best blogs on the web are the storytellers, where the blogger has a point of view that no one else can easily achieve. Sergeant Chris Missick is one of these people. His blog, set in Iraq and entitled A Line in the Sand, is a soldier’s take on the war. In Missick’s case, it’s a slightly jaded take, as his blog convincingly argues that mainstream media are missing the real, positive stories in the country in their zeal to sensationalize the war and negate America’s achievements...