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...lunch, the "livin' innies"-as he calls the resident troops who use the mess-will hoe into offerings like beef stroganoff, BBQ pork chops, chicken ? la king, Swiss roll and pavlova. Steak's "an old favorite," and there's a potato option at every meal. But the modern soldier is at ease with terms like parmigiana, and unfazed in the face of quiche. He's not slow to criticize, either: "You are only as good as your last meal," says Benstead. "If a meal was substandard, you hear about it. And you hear about it fairly heavily...
...Deciding what to cook isn't just a matter of walking through the markets and seeing what inspires. Food must be ordered a week in advance through the Army supply system, and menus must conform to the Basis of Issue, the per-meal allowance for each soldier of meat, eggs, cheese, fish, sugar-all calculated to the gram, with nutrition as well as economy in mind...
...Israeli army is based on two laws: a wounded soldier would never be left behind and neither would a captured soldier. It's a part of how the army has been able to defend itself against millions of Arabs. It's not political; it's a special spirit. We know we won't be left wounded or captured. The issue that these captured soldiers were just an excuse for Israel to start this war - maybe it's true. But almost every big war was started with an excuse...
President Bush watched Gonzalez, himself an immigrant Army vet, swear in the three new soldier-citizens last week. Specialist Sergio Lopez, originally from Mexico City, moved to Bolingbrook, Ill., in 1998, and joined the Army in 2003. "He put his life on the line each day driving between observation posts and his unit's forward operating base in the Baghdad area," Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want...
SURRENDERED. Johnny Htoo, left, child soldier who, along with twin brother Luther, led a band of ethnic Karen rebels known as God's Army against Burma's military junta in the late 1990s; in southern Burma. Htoo, believed to be about 18 years old today, turned himself in to government forces along with eight fellow rebels earlier this month, according to reports. The brothers, revered by followers who believed they had mystic powers and could not be hurt by bullets or land mines, fled to a Thai refugee camp in 2001, where Luther reportedly still lives with his wife...