Word: sergeant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...often sexually charged ?techniques? employed in a prison that was a sordid, antique, ill-situated (it was almost daily under mortar fire), ill-equipped and ill-supplied. He also - very tellingly - observes that when the truth about Abu-Ghraib came out, no one above the rank of Master Sergeant was ever successfully prosecuted for any of the obviously illegal activities that went on in the prison...
...main character and the dog.In his stories about the military, on the other hand, Wolff beautifully zeroes in on the minutiae of life—and as a result, they’re probably the best of the bunch. In “Awaiting Orders,” a sergeant meets the sister and son of one of his soldiers who has shipped out for Iraq. Although the sergeant is “no longer able to imagine himself as a civilian—the formlessness of that life, the endless petty choices to be made?...
...flights, more than half of its daily schedule, affecting 273,000 passengers after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the carrier to ground 300 planes for inspection - are the aviation equivalent of a traffic cop behind on his quota blanketing a street with tickets to avoid catching heat from his sergeant. Woe unto thee unlucky enough to double park...
...heart sinks, but I know they can't hurt him anymore.' KEITH MAUPIN, father of Staff Sergeant Keith Matthew Maupin, who in 2004 became the first U.S. soldier in Iraq to be declared missing in action, after his son's remains were identified Numbers
...heart sinks, but I know they can't hurt him anymore.' KEITH MAUPIN, father of Staff Sergeant Keith Matthew Maupin, who in 2004 became the first U.S. soldier in Iraq to be declared missing in action, after his son's remains were identified...