Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first offensive tackle named captain in eight years. He is a silent soldier on the gridiron who sees himself as a leader on the field--not in the locker room...
...weirdness and a sort of emergency-issue nostalgia, as if Americans were rummaging through old LIFE magazines, dipping back into the lore of World War II to discover the styles of leave taking, of sweethearts' goodbyes. Television-news shows offered small touches of the USO, airing video postcards from soldiers newly arrived in the gulf, grinning and sweating and reassuring Mom. Said a soldier, cheerful and earnest: "We're here fighting for America and our way of life. Airborne!" Will Bob Hope be in Riyadh for Christmas? ("Hey, guys, I wanna tell ya, that gal's veil sure didn...
...only three still photographers in the Pentagon press pool, Brack has taken some of the most powerful photographs ever published of an army preparing for battle: a column of fresh-faced G.I.s striding purposefully into * the Saudi sands, a lone soldier trudging toward a tent sculpted to look like a sand dune and, in this week's issue, a muscular-looking F-15 Eagle fighter preparing for takeoff, fully armed and ready for business. Under the rules of the pool, all pictures taken by Brack must be shared with other U.S. newsmagazines and wire services; this explains why his work...
Soon the men reach what seems to be their destination. Two soldiers begin digging a position from which they could fire a 5.56-cal. machine gun at approaching Iraqi vehicles. But another soldier appears out of the darkness and tells the machine gunners that their platoon has ended up in the wrong place. It is too close to the road. In fact, it turns out that the platoon would be in the fire zone if the 82nd were to launch a mortar attack...
...Genovese soldier Vincent (Fish) Cafaro, in 1988 Senate testimony...