Word: serviceman
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...looked terrible after a sleepless night that began with a freezing helicopter ride from Baghdad. And I couldn't hide the fear gnawing at me about my time ahead in Anbar Province, where U.S. forces suffer the highest casualty rates in Iraq. Indeed, I saw my first dead U.S. serviceman as I touched down in Ramadi, a shapeless form in a black body bag waiting in the dark to leave on one the Chinook helicopters that had brought me. The image was fresh in my mind as I introduced myself to McClung, the public affairs officer who had arranged...
...TIME: Your previous works have focused largely on women's views of their bodies. Your new play, The Treatment, however, is about a serviceman tormented by atrocities he may have committed while on duty in the Middle East. What inspired the new topic...
...called Rules of Engagement that every U.S. soldier lives under are constantly changing as the insurgents adopt new tactics. As one U.S. serviceman who served in Iraq explains, "The nature of the fight over there has widely expanded the definition of threat. Car drives too close to your convoy - suicide bomber or stupid driver? Male with a shovel on the side of a road at 2 a.m. - coming home late from work or digging an IED hole? On the roof of a house within line of sight of an IED explosion - trigger man, cameraman, or just enjoying an evening...
...Forrest Gump of the military. He ended up in the spotlight through no fault of his own." FREDERICK WRIGHT, father of Lance Corporal Andrew Wright, 21, a Marine who his parents say was ordered, along with a fellow serviceman, to photograph the corpses of unarmed Iraqi civilians allegedly killed by members of their unit in Haditha, Iraq...
...sacrifice for a cause the President has championed? I cannot picture Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton treating Cindy Sheehan that way if she had lost a son in a conflict on his watch. We deserve better in a Commander in Chief during wartime. Cindy Sheehan deserves better. And U.S. serviceman Casey Sheehan deserved better. John Purifoy Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. Iraq's Nervous Neighbor As your report "inside iran's secret War for Iraq" made clear, the Iranians are attempting to gain influence in Iraq [Aug. 22]. I don't blame them. The U.S. saw fit to invade and occupy...