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...helicopter to a U.S military hospital near Baghdad. Doctors judged that Woodruff's head injuries were too serious at present for him to be evacuated to a U.S. military hospital in Germany. A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said he was still checking to see if any American servicemen were also injured in the attack...
Caffeine's real power kicks in, though, when you're tired. That's of obvious interest to the military, which counts on servicemen and -women to make life-and-death decisions even when they have been in the field without rest for days. "When you're sleep deprived and you take caffeine," says Lieberman, who has carried out extensive tests on Navy SEALS, among others, "pretty much anything you measure will improve: reaction time, vigilance, attention, logical reasoning?most of the complex functions you associate with intelligence. And most Americans are sleep deprived most of the time." Again, caffeine doesn...
...unprecedented partnership by co-sponsoring “Support Our Troops Week” at Harvard. “Support Our Troops Week” seeks to promote the often underrepresented message among the Harvard community that all Americans should acknowledge and understand the dedication and sacrifices of U.S. servicemen and women both at home and abroad. That regardless of your political affiliation, U.S. troops dedicate their lives to protecting America. Supporting U.S. troops who protect America is not about the war in Iraq, it is not about whether one agrees with President Bush’s policies...
...limitations if the book is well written and the film is well made. All experience, when put into literature and film is moved through memory, and then through art. THC: What about the cultural resonance of the war in which you fought, particularly with the three generations of servicemen in your family; what do you think can be passed on? AS: I didn’t listen to the lesson my father tried to teach me, which was to not join the military…my father saw, as most men who served in Vietnam saw, rather brutal and heinous...
...Some of us have not been lulled into a coma of patriotic contentment. Every time the newspaper publishes the names of our servicemen and service-women killed in Iraq, I read them aloud. I say the names of the fallen to acknowledge their lives and their deaths. I am calling the roll of the dead that this President must answer for. Karyn J. Powers Wausau, Wisconsin...