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They joined�the military�into college, or out of the ghetto, or because of its seemingly studly glamour. "I saw a Marine when I was in high school," Sergeant Robert Sarra recalls in a new documentary. "And I was like, that's it! They're mean, they're tough, they got cool uniforms, and chicks dig 'em." That image barely survived through Sarra's basic training--brainwashing, he and other young men now call it. As for combat, he found it less like a Top Gun video game, shooting MiGs out of the sky, and more like Grand Theft Auto...
...once a week. When they do, it feels like Christmas - mail from home is the only thing that keeps the soldiers at Maizan going. Today's haul saw troops whooping over new Sony Playstations, games, Oreos, cigarettes, Cheese Whiz and even a flea collar for Beebe, the camp dog. Sergeant Florian Barrie, from Watertown, New York, walked off with three cases of Mountain Dew sent by his mom and a friend. Expensive? Yes, but it's these little things that make life bearable in Maizan...
...Army sergeants usually inspire fear. Not Sergeant Star. He's soft-spoken, approachable and, well, kinda cute. Oh, and he's not human. Star is the U.S. Army's newest recruiter--a camo-wearing avatar at GoArmy.com who answers questions IM-style. He's straightforward: Ask "Will I go to Iraq?" and he'll say it's "likely." If he's stumped, Star will direct you to a live recruiter, who is waiting to chat...
...Through his lawyers, Staff Sergeant Frank D. Wuterich, the Marine who was the unit leader in Haditha on Nov. 19, says that, while he was on duty in the makeshift operations center the following day, he never handled the radio operator's green logbook. The logbook, he said, is usually kept by a low-ranking enlisted Marine and simply tracks the time of radio calls in and out of the center. Wuterich says he never took any pages out of the logbook and never "tampered" with...
...anything wrong that day. According to the attorneys, one of Wuterich's commanders told him that he had recommended that Wuterich receive a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal for his actions in Haditha. As TIME previously reported, on Jan. 1, 2006, Wuterich got a promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...