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...SENTENCED. Staff Sergeant IVAN L. FREDERICK II, 38, highest-ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in jail by a court-martial; at Camp Victory in western Baghdad. His sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, a corrections officer in civilian life, is one of seven charged in the scandal and the third to be convicted; his sentence is the longest to date...
...Harry (David B. Rochelson ’05), a mild-mannered businessman who cuts through the play’s apathy with a brief moment of genuine despair when no one tries to stop his suicide attempt. Rochelson is reincarnated in the second act as Larry, a drill sergeant who forces the family into a semblance of normality while ignoring its real problems...
...need you to raise pure hell," Specialist Amber McClenny said in a message on her family's answering machine in Dothan, Ala. Six of their trucks were scheduled to be removed from service because they were so outdated, and none could go faster than 40 m.p.h., according to Sergeant Larry McCook, who phoned his wife in Jackson, Miss. Specialist Major Coates told his father in Charlotte, N.C., that the platoon had been sent out earlier that day in a 40year-old truck that broke down before it even left the base...
...Ramadi operation, launched at 4 a.m., is designed to end before sunrise, before morning prayers. The Marines expect resistance, but as the 36th breaches the gate of Ramadi's main mosque, the city remains quiet. Sergeant Jose L. Carillo of the 2/5's Whiskey Company looks out from a position on a nearby rooftop. "These guys fight when they want to fight, not when we want them to fight," Carillo says of the insurgents, as he peers through night-vision goggles. "They just keep on recruiting. And, I don't mind saying it, we don't have enough people...
...insurgents and monitor the places where they hide, which is why these Marines are hunkered down in a bullet-pocked building overlooking the Grand Mosque, scanning the streets and rooftops for rebel gunmen. It's exasperating work. "They tend not to get us because they're lousy shots," says Sergeant Jeremy Barone. "We tend not to get them because they run away...