Word: artilleryman
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...design, which he calls "combative." Its logo is a silhouette of someone charging with a flag, and "the whole military theme of the site is very on purpose." Moulitsas spent part of his childhood in El Salvador during the country's civil war and was an Army artilleryman in Germany for three years, a background that, he says, makes him comfortable with throwing verbal bombs as well. "I'm not The Nation," he says. "I'm not afraid to use swear words. If people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate...
...Artilleryman Joe Penkala, 32, completed his active duty and required IRR time in 2002 yet remained in the IRR by choice. In May, the same week he got engaged, Penkala was given 30 days to report to Fort Sill, Okla., and was told he'd be back in uniform for at least a year. "I supported the President's decision to go to war. I would be a hypocrite if I didn't serve," says Penkala, a lawyer from Bristol, R.I., who is to depart this week for the Middle East. "However, I think [the call-up] shows the need...
...Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld left work one night recently for a stag dinner right out of a buddy movie. Back in January, their wives out of town, Franks and Rumsfeld hit a Georgetown sushi bar after the multimillionaire Pentagon chief decided to give the Oklahoma-born and Texas-reared artilleryman his first taste of raw fish. As Franks recalled it, "About midafternoon he said, 'Let's go eat sushi,' and I said, 'Eat what?' I told him I'd be proud to do it if he'd show me how, so he did." Both men enjoyed themselves that evening...
...brown shalwar kameez his mother had ironed the night before and carried a spare in a plastic shopping bag. "All he said was that he was going to a public rally," recalls Ahmed, who had taken care of Siddique's family ever since the lad's father, a Pakistani artilleryman, was killed by Indian soldiers in a firefight in Kashmir in 1980, when Siddique was just...
...Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P.'s right wing began to whisper out loud that the one-time Army artilleryman was soft on defense. Now leading the short list is retired Indiana Senator Dan Coats, a former Senate aide to Dan Quayle, whose selection would make the conservatives happier...