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Those elements are present in Spielberg's film. The eight questing men here include a rebel (Edward Burns), an omnicompetent sergeant (Tom Sizemore) and, most important, Upham, an intellectual clerk-typist (Jeremy Davies), who learns more about himself than he will ever be able to confess in the book he wants to write. "He was me in the movie," says Spielberg. "That's how I would have been...
...kill any defectors, men, women or children." John Plaster, who served in the Studies and Observation Group during Tailwind, says, "Nerve agent never was used, and it was not available on call even if we'd wanted to use it." Denver Minton, who as a sergeant first class was second-in-command of one of the three platoons involved in Tailwind, told the St. Petersburg Times, "We weren't there to kill defectors... There was no talk whatsoever about defectors." An airplane did drop gas "to help with our rescue," Minton said, "but I believe it was tear...
...used. He also disputed the allegation made by CNN's sources that the mission's purpose was to kill American defectors. CNN had quoted one officer on the mission saying he had seen and killed two defectors. Questions have subsequently been raised about his credibility. This officer and a sergeant said they were told by their Montagnard mercenaries there were a dozen to 20 Caucasian bodies found. Former special-operations commander John Singlaub told CNN, "It may be more important to your survival to kill the defector than to kill the Vietnamese or Russian." He justified that policy by pointing...
...Dear Penthouse: I'm an Army sergeant stationed in South Carolina who has to sneak off the base to buy your magazine..." The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the ban on Penthouse at the PX, confirming the military's right to ban the sale of sexually explicit magazines on military bases. "The decision shows that the Court continues to give great deference to what the military calls its need to maintain good order and discipline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The military works under a different set of rules from civilian society, and for the most part the Court...
Marijuana and cocaine were this city's illegal substances of choice until about four years ago, when a blizzard of crank swept in. "It's pretty much all we deal with now," says Sergeant Tim O'Connell, who heads the city's multiagency drug task force. For law enforcers, methamphetamine is a tough drug to pin down. It's sold hand to hand behind closed doors, in homes and motel rooms, in the style of a Tupperware party. Worse, its production requires little overhead. Ephedrine, an over-the-counter cold medication, can be combined with a shopping list of chemicals...