Word: troop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Closest to the enemy are the lead scouts of the 82nd Airborne Division, whose job is to watch and listen and assemble information on Iraqi troop movements. Fires are outlawed for heating or cooking; hot coffee comes from tiny butane heaters hidden in cardboard boxes. Nights are so quiet that a cough can be heard from 400 yds., and the land is so barren that a single twisted piece of brush becomes a landmark known as the Tree. "It's easy to get lost out here. There are no terrain features," says Captain Scott Barrington, 29, of Chester...
That reaction would not have saved Saddam in any case, though. Strong as the Arab anger was, it was not quite sufficient to shake the governments (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria) that have made major troop commitments to the coalition. The U.S. and its European allies suffered little if any public backlash against the war. In retrospect, generals played down too much the inevitability of civilian deaths in any bombing campaign. But Westerners, while shocked, seemed to accept the explanations that the U.S. was not directly targeting civilians; that Saddam in contrast was deliberately putting them in harm...
...Jungle Love," a musically mediocre number, is redeemed by fantastic choreography and an imaginative set that includes a flaming cauldron and a troop of cannibals wearing bras made of skulls...
...Walsh argued that demonstrations against the war at home are damaging to troop morale on the front line. "To speak for peace, everyone supports it. To pray for peace, everyone supports it," Walsh said. "But there's something about demonstrating when they're out there fighting that seems like we don't support them...
...tempted to lapse, moreover, any number of watchdogs stand ready to pounce. Japan's Asian neighbors tend to bark at the least whiff of what they suspect might be "resurgent militarism." Last March, Major General Henry Stackpole, the commander of U.S. Marines based in Japan, defended America's troop presence there: "No one wants a rearmed, resurgent Japan. So we are a cap in the bottle, so to speak...