Word: servicemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unimaginative and bureaucratic, their troops uninspired and all too frequently undisciplined. After the fall of Saigon, still more fiascoes fairly shouted of Pentagon ineptitude. An attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran broke down in the desert in 1980. In 1983 a terrorist's truck bomb killed 241 American servicemen, forcing the U.S. to beat an embarrassing retreat from its peacekeeping role in Lebanon...
More primal desires can be satisfied at the Mustang Ranch, a legal bordello near Reno, which is offering gulf heroes a free day with a floozy. Some 800 servicemen have already signed on. Soldiers will be soldiers...
Being stationed in the gulf doesn't mean you can't send Valentine's Day flowers back home. Several hundred servicemen have placed orders with Calyx & Corolla, an innovative mail-order flower company in San Francisco. The troops get a 20% Valentine's discount...
...GULF WAR: Staring out from photographs, the first U.S. servicemen to die in ground combat seem full of life and promise. As they are laid to rest across the nation, the real cost of the conflict comes home to America...
...pair of jeans in a current Wrangler advertisement. Operation Desert Storm's answer to Betty Grable is actually a Provo, Utah, police officer who moonlights as a model. Her unofficial fan club began when a few Utah reservists took copies of the ad to the gulf. Before long other servicemen started tearing the photo out of magazines and pinning it up in tents, bunkers and just about every Marine military-police station in Saudi Arabia. Says Guibord: "If I can be a temporary diversion for our boys overseas, I'm flattered." Spoken like a real trooper...