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...bridge hanging in Fallujah were Blackwater employees—but that they are unnecessary and disruptive to the ideal and the exercise of America’s volunteer military. Let’s put that $800 million toward better protecting, compensating, and relieving our own soldiers and National Guardsmen by increasing pay, equipment, and recruiting efforts.It has been estimated that over 1,000 private contractors have died in Iraq since 2003. According to the Department of Defense’s Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, 3,783 soldiers have died in the same period. And nearly 1,000 more have died...
...huge inland sea of snow of eastern Colorado, people are in harm?s way but the cattle are being devastated. In Baca County, National Guardsmen are delivering medications to nursing homes and the elderly. But Baca has only an average 1.8 person per square mile. There are approximately 35 cattle per square mile here and nearly all of them are in deathly trouble. At one feedlot, an estimated 2,500 cattle are dead. And more snow is in the forecast. As many as 340,000 cattle in Colorado are at grave risk. The herds in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma will...
...three days this week, Black Hawk choppers hovered over Colorado prairies covered by four feet of snow, drifts reaching 15 feet high. The choppers carried 20 bales of hay at a time, National Guardsmen and ranchers trying to throw each bale precisely within reaching distance of the stranded herds so they wouldn't starve to death while looking at the food. So far, 80 tons of hay - 3,000 bales - have been distributed. But the war in Iraq has stretched National Guard forces thin. Weekend maneuvers were scheduled. Winds created inhospitable skies. As of Thursday night, no more airlifts...
...summer heat. Just hours later and a few blocks away, a quadruple homicide takes place, sending shock waves through the neighborhood. In the middle photo, Juanita Thomas, aunt to three of the victims, breaks down. In the early morning hours the next day, in the Fifth Ward, National Guardsmen, deployed to help police the city, interrogate a suspected drug dealer. Robbery and homicide numbers in New Orleans are nearing pre-Katrina levels, despite the drop-off in population. As drug dealers and gangs return to town, fierce turf battles have convulsed low-income neighborhoods, adding to the fear and uncertainty...
...Republican strategists attribute the turnaround to Schwarzenegger?s return to the centrist persona that got him elected. He has made a show of distancing himself from the unpopular President Bush, including rejecting a White House request to boost the number of California National Guardsmen patrolling the border. Schwarzenegger also extended a loan to fund stem cell research in the state following a Bush veto of a federal funding bill. Additionally, he has worked with the Democratic-controlled legislature to get four bond proposals on the fall ballot intended to finance his multibillion-dollar infrastructure overhaul plan. Then there...