Word: tented
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...open 7-ton truck--lined with sandbags in case we hit a mine--for 17 hours. Their base, Camp Viper, in south-central Iraq, had a team of 44 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, medics and corpsmen. I toured the two 40-ft. by 40-ft. operating tents, each reinforced with two layers of tent canvas and a solid floor. They were clean and sanitary, as any operating room should...
...Sunday morning when I was awakened by the first blast--a boom 10 times louder than a car backfiring. Ten seconds later there was a second blast, and then soldiers started screaming, "Get out! Get out!" Someone had slipped two hand grenades into the tent housing more than a dozen of the brigade's officers. One woman in my tent, which was 10 yards away from the explosion, yelled, "I'm hit." A piece of shrapnel from the grenade had lodged...
...tent into total chaos. The Scud alarms were sounding, and people were running for the bunkers we use during those alerts. Most soldiers were in uniform, but some were wearing the workout clothes they sometimes sleep in. Realizing the explosions were not Scuds, I walked over to the tent where the grenades had gone off and saw two very badly wounded soldiers--one bleeding from his leg, back and stomach. The medics had not yet arrived, so soldiers were bandaging wounds themselves. I noticed the chaplain trying to comfort the dozen or so who had been wounded. Sergeants were shouting...
...colleagues very quickly witnessed the grimness of war. Last Saturday in northern Iraq, Michael Ware and photographer Kate Brooks were reporting on al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas when a suicide bomber detonated a taxi, killing five people, including an Australian cameraman. Early Sunday, Jim Lacey was sleeping in his tent in Camp Pennsylvania, in northern Kuwait, when he suddenly heard loud bangs. Two grenades had exploded 10 yards away, in the tents housing officers of the 101st Airborne. More than a dozen were wounded, and at least one was killed. The detained suspect: an American soldier. Photographer Benjamin Lowy captured...
...tents were miserable, and the weather even worse. One day, the shamal winds stirred up a huge sandstorm. With gusts to 60 m.p.h., we could hear Marines pounding the loosening tent stakes back into the ground. Despite their efforts, one tent was blown over, scattering all the medical equipment...