Word: units
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...your head / So don’t push me / Fill your ass up with lead / So don’t push me,” he threatens on “Don’t Push Me,” with Eminem and Lloyd Banks of his posse G Unit backing him up. This is not surprising coming from the guy who recently told Rolling Stone that “I shot people before. But I ain’t gonna tell...
...could have been worse. Four Kurdish soldiers, known as peshmerga (those who face death) were saved by their meal break. They'd been called for lunch at their unit's small command post on the other side of the road as the taxi approached. Another soldier, sitting in his gun emplacement overlooking the site, had watched his comrades cut down, unable to help. In the confusion afterwards a dozen armed men wandered among the wreckage, stepping gingerly through the human remains littering the asphalt. "We're distraught, this was a good man who died here, our friend...
...Kurdish trenches are hit by mortar and heavy machinegun fire from the Ansar lines on a daily basis. On Monday night, TIME's correspondent had sheltered with a peshmerga frontline unit through a four-hour barrage. But the resort to suicide tactics shifts the boundaries. Some of the soldiers present during the attack at the Zamaqi roadblock claim a suicide bomber struck the Halabja bazaar last year. However, a Kurdish political officer assigned to oversee the Ansar front, Burhan Saeed Sofi from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (which controls the Kurdish region's eastern half) says that attack...
...absurd. How dare an agency that has failed the American people so badly form its own secret Special Operations Group? It seems probable that the U.S. military's special forces will be pushed aside for the CIA's newer unit. With all due respect to the special-ops soldiers, they seem no different from the Army's Delta Force, and I see no reason for two highly skilled units to compete for the same missions. ADAM NETTINA West Friendship...
According to Belkin, earlier defenses of the policy were based on the theory of “unit cohesion,” which says that allowing open gays to join the military would break down trust in groups, causing them to perform badly...