Word: basic
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...flexible--he was trained in field artillery but found himself immediately doing convoy operations in humvees. The mission is changing, he warned Pae; get ready to change with it. Pae has noticed a shift in tone, through the tips on which books to save for reuse in officer basic training and in the half-hearted jokes about Iraq's being better than West Point. His friend seems less like the goofy cadet Pae remembers and more like a sober officer steeling himself for the times ahead...
...know it sounds funny, but we've been training for this for a long time." Over in one corner, a table of massive men in camouflage are talking to some cadets; Pae eyes them with a mixture of awe and ambition. They are the commanders of armor officer basic training, which Pae is looking ahead to. "It's really rare to be able to talk to the leadership over a beer like that. You won't be able to do that when you're down there," he says...
...media executive, he was drawn to military life because he wanted something more than just a good job. He originally had his heart set on going into the Navy to become a fighter pilot, but when he visited West Point, he fell in love with its emphasis on the basic relationship of leader to soldier, its elemental emphasis on men, not machinery. He didn't focus on just the dreamier ideals. The minutiae of leadership and the daily self-assessment--Am I doing enough to prepare myself?--became an obsession. As he rose into his first leadership roles during sophomore...
...another survivor from his special-forces team--seems to give him license to act as a great counterweight to the misty-eyed patriotism of West Point. He was recruited to teach international relations--and the realities of war. "Major Amerine doesn't sugarcoat anything," says Cadet Jonathan Lum. "His basic lesson is, There's a percentage of you that will...
...name them--have gone smoothly. But according to U.S. cable operators and cable-television executives, the limited number of slots are nearly full for all-news channels on major U.S. satellite systems, and it will not be easy for al-Jazeera International to find a place on so-called basic-tier cable packages either. "There are not many of us out there, but it is very, very competitive for distribution, advertising and, of course, audiences," says Richard Sambrook, director of BBC World Service and Global News Division. But, he adds, "al-Jazeera has deep pockets, and therefore they are going...