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...address the issue of cadets who are not quite so committed to a lifetime in uniform, the latest West Point innovation is Branch for Service, a program cadets took to calling Branch by eBay. It solves several complex problems with a simple trade. The Army's problem is that too many officers are leaving after their minimum five-year commitment. The cadets' problem is that if you don't have excellent grades, you often can't get the branch you want. The problems intersect because studies have shown that cadets who got their first choice were 10% more likely...
...they had earned, at least not yet. "People really loved to tell us that we're great Americans," she recalls, "but I really didn't think we were all that great. We're just college kids." Strangers started coming up to her on the street when she was in uniform, thanking her for what she was doing. "I tried to be gracious about it," she says, but she kept getting the feeling she was being thanked for a sacrifice she had not yet made. Eventually she stopped telling people that she went to West Point...
...West Point in the first place. The "five and fly" kids who hoped to pass through the Army on their way to riches now found that the road to Wall Street might include a detour through Baghdad. Their families had some strong feelings--strong but by no means uniform--just as the cadets did. Parents who were once proud that their kids would enter adulthood with great skills and no debts now told them, "Hey, we sold our house at the top of the market. We can afford to send you anywhere you want to go. Maybe we should talk...
...Everyone agrees that what happened at Abu Ghraib was horrible and tragic,” Downer said. “But...by portraying American foreign policy as targeted specifically against Islam, the play disparaged our men and women in uniform in an extreme and dishonest way. Certainly making these statements and arguments are within their rights, but I think it represents a new low in responsible dialogue on the issue...
...Ballymurphy estate, and John Dunn, a former British soldier with uncomfortable memories of his tours of duty in Ulster. Moran's eldest son, Sean, has joined the 40 or so prisoners on his block in the Maze who are on "dirty protest" - living naked rather than wearing a prison uniform, and smearing their excrement on their cell walls. Dunn has returned to Ulster as a prison officer in the Maze, drawn by good money and hopes of finally settling down with his Protestant girlfriend. The two characters never meet, but their parallel lives converge when the antagonism within the Maze...