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...Army. He served in the 1991 Gulf War as a Bradley fighting vehicle gunner and immediately thereafter volunteered for the Special Forces (Green Beret) qualification course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. But he didn't make the grade and left the Army in 1ate 1991 with sergeant's rank and an honorable discharge...
...only if they come under fire but even if they are just threatened. American G.I.s specifically can fire if anyone points a gun at them in a menacing fashion. And the order to fire need not come down any chain of command. It can be given by a sergeant on the spot...
...land-mine-awareness lessons, troops are instructed never to take a short cut when navigating unfamiliar terrain and never to try to defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with a red bicycle flag and white tape so that, in the words of Sergeant First Class Charles Bradley, as he conducted an outdoor course in Schwetzingen, Germany, "even the dumbest guys in your unit can identify...
...general--go beyond this recent incident. Though the Army today is nearly 30% black, overt racism still takes place at some bases, according to a report issued by the House Armed Services Committee last December. Fort Bragg itself has been linked to other violent outbursts. In October an Army sergeant opened fire on colleagues, killing one and injuring 18. In August 1993 a soldier from the post killed four people in a local restaurant. And in 1991 Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in last April's bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma, arrived for a 21-day Green...
...More than 20 flights came in today, most of them carrying equipment. The planes landed, soldiers rushed out, unloaded them and, in less than ten minutes, they were off again." Stiglmayer says that two of the flights carried troops from the 325th Infantry who will provide airport security. "One sergeant told me how happy he was to be here," reports Stiglmayer. "`We've been waking up at two and three every morning for the past four days, getting on the plane, flying to Tuzla, circling in the fog, then heading back home,' he said. `It's good to be here...