Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morris, living with a 1st Marine Division unit, has spent his evenings for the past six weeks sleeping beneath camouflage netting in a hole in the sand. Notes printed under his captions are the only way the experienced combat photographer can communicate with us. One note read, "Thanks for the candy bars. The unit loved them. Could you send some cocoa and a hot shower, please...
...have U.S.-based Reserve and National Guard units that had been assigned crucial roles in contingency planning for a European war. For the most part, they have acquitted themselves well in the gulf, but there have been embarrassing exceptions. Some National Guard brigades were simply unprepared to fight. In Louisiana dozens of reservists from the 256th Brigade went AWOL for a weekend to protest training conditions, and the commander of the 48th Infantry Brigade from Fort Irwin, Calif., was removed from active duty after his unit performed poorly in training...
...City. By Sunday morning, Eastern U.S. time, the city was on the verge of being taken by allied forces. "So far we're delighted with the progress of the campaign," declared General Norman Schwarzkopf, the allied commander. Schwarzkopf said resistance had been light, with the exception of one Marine unit that ran into and repulsed an Iraqi counterattack. During the first 12 hours of the campaign, Schwarzkopf said, more than 5,500 Iraqi prisoners had been captured. But according to Kuwaiti sources, the actual number of Iraqis surrendering was at least 10 times greater than that...
...planning, superb coordination, perfect timing, uninterrupted communications, pinpoint accuracy, constant high-speed maneuvering by ground forces and well-executed logistics. Getting fuel and ammunition to tank battalions traveling up to 120 miles a day calls for a massive resupply operation that leaves little room for error. The moment a unit stops moving, the battle risks degeneration into a war of attrition in which both sides would take casualties until the less powerful force is worn down...
Next season, when Ivy League seniors like Princeton's Kit Mueller and Harvard's Ralph James graduate, Columbia may very well be a serious contender for the Ivy crown. Rohan graduates only two seniors--Scott Bennett and Steve Livingstone--and retains four members of his current starting five unit...