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...years ago, while I was embedded with U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan, my humvee convoy stopped in a small village. It was just the moment that the gunner on my vehicle had been waiting for. His grandmother back home in Kentucky had sent him a package of hard candies "for the Afghan children," and he carried them on patrol. As the curious village children crept closer to the parked humvees, he started tossing out the treats. The children were delighted and responded by running closer, cheering, waving and flashing thumbs-up signs. It was a charming moment. The children were...
...Gunner Scott, the director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, said such obstacles made it critical to change existing hate crime and discrimination statutes to cover gender identity and expression...
...blanketing the valley provided the perfect cover for the insurgents. A new command came over the radio: "If you see anyone standing outside of a building, consider it hostile intent and fire at will." "As soon as I can see a building I'll let you know," retorted the gunner. A vicious exchange of gunfire echoed from below the post, silenced only by roar of mortars hitting the insurgent's suspected firing positions. Then all was still. The thin, wavering sound of the call to prayer lifted from the village below. Still, the soldiers could see nothing. They...
...north Baghdad last week. For many of the soldiers in the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, this is a second or third deployment. Even so, they say it's significantly quieter this time than the last time. Sitting in Baghdad traffic, I watched as the gunner in the MRAP casually tossed a Red Bull out of the turret to an Iraqi pedestrian. The man on the sidewalk caught it as the U.S. soldiers giggled. Later at a dining facility at Camp Liberty, a U.S. base, I was stopped short on my way to the salad bar when...
...been on its way to a military base near the airport when they were forced to pull over because a humvee was having engine trouble. It said one of the soldiers on the ground said he thought he heard gunfire and alerted the others through their headsets. The gunner of the first humvee quickly rotated in his turret to face the road and fired on a car that was speeding past the convoy. That car turned out to be Mehdi...