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...Iraq. A precedent has already been set by Captain David Rozelle, a 33-year-old amputee who lost his right foot after his Humvee rolled over a land mine in Iraq in June 2003. He headed back to Iraq earlier this month to command a 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment troop. Aside from those daily slow-drip shrapnel and bullet wounds, there are the times that Landstuhl's doctors call simply "surge modes" - stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers...
...what U.S. commanders hope will be the future of combat in Iraq. Two years since the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. is scrambling to train and equip a new Iraqi army to take over combat duties and pave the way for a reduction in the size of the U.S. troop presence. After a slow start, the training program appears to be picking up momentum: last week the Pentagon announced plans to trim the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from 150,000 to 105,000 by early next year, a move that reflects the improved capabilities of the Iraqi forces...
...list," says Bob Smyser, who sometimes ushered with Rader at Christ Lutheran. Rader was known as an attentive father who used to take his kids, now both adults, camping and fishing. An Air Force veteran, he had been a scout leader for his son Brian's troop, with a particular skill for tying knots...
...informed TIME that the rebels have told diplomats and military officers that they support a secular democracy in Iraq but resent the prospect of a government run by exiles who fled to Iran and the West during Saddam's regime. The insurgents also seek a guaranteed timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal, a demand the U.S. refuses. But there are some hints of compromise: insurgent negotiators have told their U.S. counterparts they would accept a U.N. peacekeeping force as the U.S. troop presence recedes. Insurgent representative Abu Mohammed says the nationalists would even tolerate U.S. bases on Iraqi soil...
...does not have a troop shortage; it has misdeployed the troops. The thousands of active-duty U.S. service members sitting on their duffs in Europe and Japan far exceed any alleged shortage in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the slow-moving, bureaucratic Pentagon would take the obvious step and redeploy some of those troops, there would be no talk of a shortage. Frank Bubb Boca Raton, Florida...