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...just gonna go on a little vacation. I'll be back before you know it." PRIVATE FIRST CLASS THOMAS TUCKER, U.S. soldier, in a message to his mother just before he was deployed to Iraq in February. The bodies of Tucker and Private First Class Kristian Menchaca, who had been ambushed and kidnapped by insurgents, were found last week...
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS THOMAS TUCKER, U.S. soldier, on his deployment to Iraq, in a recent telephone message to his parents. The bodies of Tucker and Private First Class Kristian Menchaca, who had been ambushed and kidnapped by insurgents, were found last week...
Kettle Hill Under fire, Roosevelt led the charge, killing one soldier just below the summit. He then led a second charge, joining the fight for San Juan Hill...
...called Rules of Engagement that every U.S. soldier lives under are constantly changing as the insurgents adopt new tactics. As one U.S. serviceman who served in Iraq explains, "The nature of the fight over there has widely expanded the definition of threat. Car drives too close to your convoy - suicide bomber or stupid driver? Male with a shovel on the side of a road at 2 a.m. - coming home late from work or digging an IED hole? On the roof of a house within line of sight of an IED explosion - trigger man, cameraman, or just enjoying an evening...
...President occasionally calls Gottesman "Soldier," needling him for the earpiece he wears to stay in contact with other staff members during presidential events. Lately Bush has been calling him "Harvard" because this fall he will follow in the President's footsteps and enroll in Harvard Business School. Senior adviser Karl Rove describes him as "brilliant," but Gottesman had a notable hurdle: he went to work for the presidential campaign when he was 19, so he didn't finish his undergraduate degree. He found a 1991 Boston Globe article, "Harvard Business School on a High School Diploma," that described cases...