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Despite having only 25 at-bats last season and a .200 batting average, Way has made great strides in the offseason and has come to lead by example, slugging at a .494 clip and reaching safely often with a team-leading on-base percentage...
...well, guys got on base,” junior captain Tyler Albright said. “We needed to score a few more runs earlier in the game, but we showed fight. We were able to battle...
...1/12's problems were compounded by a practically nonexistent local government, led by a district governor who insisted on keeping his office at the battalion's forward operating base, rather than among the people. "And then the Afghan army regiment we were supposed to partner with was diverted to Helmand province, for the battle in Marjah," says Brown. And the so-called civilian surge - the civil and economic development component of the offensive, led by the State Department - arrived late and weak. "So the 1/12's been out there, pretty much alone," a State Department official based in Kandahar told...
...became clear that the 1/12 was more comfortable with traditional soldiering than with counterinsurgency, the skepticism about its efficacy grew in the higher ranks of the military command. The 1/12 was hunkered down at its headquarters, a remote outpost called Forward Operating Base James Wilson, and the brass wanted it out securing the populace. Since the populace was concentrated in Senjaray, that seemed a logical place to start - and Jeremiah Ellis seemed the perfect candidate to lead the way. "He's one of the smartest officers we have," one of Ellis' superiors told me. "But he can take that enthusiasm...
...It’s really hard to build small talk if you don’t have the cultural base to know what’s going on,” Pollock says...