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Born in Kenya but raised in Somalia and Luxembourg, the Winthrop House resident spoke six languages and was learning a seventh. Her desire to develop a greater understanding of humanity led her to study social anthropology...
...where the reservist, 53, is a battalion surgeon doing trauma assessment and triage with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "He's three for three," says his wife Monterey, who has been taking his calls and referring his patients elsewhere for the past nine weeks. "First the Gulf War, then Somalia and now Iraq." This time, Monterey says, it has meant a pay cut of about 35%, and it will take months to get the practice going again. But, she acknowledges, that leaves them far better off than many other reserve families...
...Despite all the hardships involved, reservists and their families say service pays in ways that may not be so easy to understand for those who have never had the experience. Monterey Brookman estimates that her physician husband's service in Somalia "probably cost us a million dollars." But, she adds, "we would pay every penny of that because it was, for my husband, worth a million and then some to be fulfilling his mission as a doctor and an American...
...Normandy and Okinawa. When a military operation departed from those norms--as in Vietnam and at the battle of Mogadishu in 1993--it was dismissed as a mistake, the consequence of political meddling rather than a cool decision by the military to use force. In fact, the ambush in Somalia by armed men indistinguishable from peaceable civilians is more relevant to our future than a full shelf of books on the World War II heroics of the "greatest generation." Given the conventional power of the U.S. military, any probable adversary will choose unconventional tactics. The fighting in Afghanistan, for example...
...manual for defeating the Americans. The film tells the story of the 18 U.S. Army Rangers who were killed by Somalis while attempting to rescue comrades from two helicopters downed in Mogadishu in 1993. The casualties prompted the U.S. to wind up its military operation in Somalia. The Iraqis may hope that similar scenes of Americans being bloodied in the streets of Baghdad would bring the same result...