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...start down the descent, it slowly dawns on me that I'm home free. I've got some easy skiing, a shooting stop, and then it'll be my LAST LAP. My clever escape plan fades into the background, and I start thinking how I'll celebrate finishing. This reverses the negative cascade of thinking that has engulfed me for the last 10 minutes, and I start feeling positive and having fun. I don't shoot so well (hitting two out of five), but I have a much easier time on the last...
...does not involve nearly the drama of the 20k. It is shorter, for one thing (12.5k), it does not involve the hill of death, and my body feels like it has actually acclimated slightly. The format is also different, and from my standpoint psychologically favors the shooting component more. During the first race, every missed shot translated into a one-minute time penalty. This format provides an enormous incentive to shoot well, but does not really give the same mental boost as the penalty lap format used during the second race. In the penalty lap format, there...
...training, including military training, to forces in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The Peru aspect of the strategy was controversial then because of Peru?s human-rights record. It?s still controversial because of Peru?s human rights record, and now even more so because of the recent shoot-down of the American missionary plane. I expect Walters will be grilled about this strategy, and asked about its long-term effectiveness when he comes up for confirmation...
Klann said he heard no incoming fire as the squad entered Thanh Phong. He said that when they failed to find the Viet Cong official, Kerrey ordered the SEALs to round up the unarmed women and children in the hooches. Then, Klann said, "an order was given" to shoot them. "We lined up, and we opened fire." A baby was the last one alive, Klann told the Times Magazine. "There were blood and guts splattering everywhere." 60 Minutes II backs up Klann's version with the words of Pham Thi Lanh, identified as the wife of a Viet Cong fighter...
...ever heard in my life," and in most ways, his recall conformed with Kerrey's. In the course of the Friday-night dinner, the rest of the squad agreed on two points: they had been fired upon first, and no one had given or received an order to deliberately shoot civilians. Kerrey himself has insisted over and over that while the massacre was an "atrocity," it had been accidental. "As guilty and awful as I felt," he told TIME, "I have every reason to believe that there were Viet Cong in that village that night. We did not go there...