Word: patroller
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...neatly tended rose garden, is ringed by high walls, double checkpoints, machine-gun emplacements and blast barriers, and guarded by 50 men. The Taliban mostly avoid face-to-face battles with ISAF and Afghan forces, preferring ambushes and stealth attacks with suicide bombs and roadside mines. So the troops patrol in heavily armored vehicles or in jeeps bristling with machine guns...
...always used her Jordanian cell phone as a clock, and when its battery petered out because her charger didn't fit the wall socket, she lost all track of time. She didn't know how to let her relatives know she had arrived safely in the U.S. Police patrol cars appeared regularly at the complex, and loud fights broke out in the hallways. Even the boisterous schoolkids getting off the bus, clowning and shrieking, spooked...
Commanders on the ground draw their money from CERP (Commander's Emergency Response Program) funds. CERP funds are meant to cover everything from condolence payments to water and electricity infrastructure improvements. They also can give out micro-grants to neighborhood patrol and checkpoint contracts. The CERP budget for fiscal year 2007 was $750 million and while no cutbacks are expected for 2008 the money hasn't been authorized yet by Congress, which means the army's top brass is playing it safe and tightening its belt. According to Lt. Col. Gerry Messmer, A U.S. civil military operations officer in Baghdad...
When he is out on patrol, primary schoolchildren dash across the street to greet Cook, running past armed neighborhood guards to proudly show him their report cards. "Hellow meestah Cook!" they shout. "Zien, zien!" Cook says, ("good, good") encouraging them in Arabic. Armed plainclothes gunmen - volunteers Cook helped organize - checked inside cars passing through the crosswalk...
...Mather House junior was arrested early on Dec. 16 for hitting and kicking a police officer and breaking the window of a patrol car, according to Harvard police logs...