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...going to die!" yells Staff Sergeant David Bellavia as his rattled platoon of soldiers takes cover from machine-gun fire in the streets of Fallujah. The platoon has been ordered to hunt down and kill a group of insurgents hiding somewhere in a block of 12 darkened houses. It is 1:45 a.m., and the soldiers have been running from fire fight to fire fight for 48 hours straight with no sleep, fueled only by the modest pickings from their ration packs. As they searched through nine of the houses on the block, the soldiers turned up nothing. When they...
Reaching the barred window near the front door, Bellavia tells two soldiers to perch by the house corner and watch for insurgents trying to leap out the side window. He looks at Staff Sergeant Scott Lawson and says, "You're f______ coming. Give suppressive fire at 45 degrees." Bellavia and Lawson step nervously into the house. From the living room, Bellavia rounds the corner into the hallway. The insurgents are still alive. Their AK-47s fire. Bellavia fires back, killing them both. "Two f_____s down," he says...
...later recounted to Law School classmate Paul J. Karch ’78, Gonzales protested to his sergeant that “all people do here [at Point Barrow] is drink and gamble—and I don’t like either on of those...
...sergeant advised that Gonzales enroll in correspondence courses. The instructor in Oklahoma to whom Gonzales mailed his assignments was so impressed that he called the military to recommend that Gonzales be admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs...
Harold Erickson knows his pet food. Every week he doles out thousands of pounds of Royal Canin therapeutic chow for every kind of pet, from aged Afghans to plump Persians. After Hurricane Charley blew through Florida late last summer, the former Army sergeant knew work might get hectic. He had no idea. On Aug. 16, French-based Royal Canin called with an urgent order, and within the hour Erickson, 46, and his co-workers mixed, packed and shipped a whopping 500 lbs. of premium dog and cat food--which can cost up to $30 per 16-lb. bag--to panicked...