Word: units
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...John Roberts by videophone, on the move with the 1st Marine Division in southern Iraq. "Oh, sorry. It's a line of camels." Many important early operations, like special-forces missions, went on without media witnesses. And although watching Fox News's Rick Leventhal report while a Marine unit fired heavy artillery gave us a personal, frightening glimpse of the immediacy of war, all it objectively told us was that somebody somewhere was shooting at someone or something. All that live video sent the stirring message that the planes were unleashing hell, Saddam's palaces were burning, and the caissons...
...cable, Fox News's patriotism found, if it were possible, an even higher gear. The network's onscreen graphics referred to "our troops," and contributor Oliver North, reporting with a 1st Marine Unit, said, "Every Marine out here watches Fox News ... because it portrays them the way they are: American." Fox's coverage was not the most neutral, but perhaps because of its pro-G.I. attitude, soldiers seemed to open up most to its correspondents. CNN's depth of international reporters showed, and it got some remarkable white-knuckle reporting in Baghdad from Nic Robertson, barking out a blow...
...Iraqi forces. As their convoy roared toward the Tallil airfield south of Nasiriyah, the brigade's gunners and dismount crews oiled their M-16s and readied the grips on their .50-cal. turret machine guns. But the brigade commanders ordered the convoy to stop its advance. Mitchell and his unit sat on a highway shoulder for hours. When they finally arrived to seize their main target--the Tallil airfield, an Iraqi military installation--the company found only a weed-strewn apron of rusting, wrecked Iraqi warplanes. "It's just plain embarrassing," Major Richard Des Jardin muttered...
...south, Alex Perry and photographer Christopher Morris traveled with a combat unit of the 3rd Infantry Division. Simon Robinson and photographer Robert Nickelsberg camped outside Basra with the 1st Marines Division. In the gulf, Meenakshi Ganguly watched bombers take off from the deck of the U.S.S. Constellation for runs at the Iraqi mainland. Brian Bennett, with the 332nd Expeditionary Wing, monitored troop movements from an air base south of the Iraqi border. Sally Donnelly was in Qatar to cover General Tommy Franks, while Terry McCarthy waited in Kuwait to join the second wave heading for Baghdad...
...Besides serving as a supply depot staging area, chemical- and biological-weapons detection lab, and a medevac point, the liberated air base now has a hospital. Behind the newly erected surgical unit, hospital chief Colonel Harry Warren shows me three large crates full of Iraqi gas masks found on the base; stamped inside the unused masks are the words made in Germany...