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Captain Echols and his 180 men and women are a new kind of American fighting force: the almost full-time part-time soldier. The Pentagon called up 12,039 more National Guard and reserve members last week, bringing the total on active duty to 188,592. It's the largest reserve call-up since 1991's Gulf War. These weekend warriors had planned on giving up a weekend a month and two weeks a year for war games in exchange for pay and help getting a college education. But for many the part-time commitment has become a full-time...
...most urgent job would be the search for hidden biological and chemical weapons. Special-forces teams from the Navy SEALs, the Air Force, the Marines and the Army's Delta Force would hunt down and secure such sites. Major General John Doesburg, who heads the Soldier Biological and Chemical Defense Command, which trains the forces that will decontaminate the sites, says his goal would be to secure all suspect weapons sites for inspections, rather than blow them up and risk spreading toxins in the air. "Our experience from the first Gulf War was that Saddam Hussein mixed things...
...arms and hands were also stained- possibly with blood. There was also a line of congealed blood running across his eyebrows and down the right slope of his nose. He was lying on a sofa-sized red cushion as a man off camera reached to take his pulse. The soldier appears to be in some agony; the grimace gives away his pain, and he's not saying a word...
...this point, the Iraq TV interviewer, who seems to be in green military uniform (but whose face is off camera), begins asking the soldier questions. As he puts the Iraq TV mike to the soldier's mouth, the interviewer applies his thumb and forefinger to the soldier's head to steady it for the camera. Then to make his face more visible, the interviewer uses his hands to lift the soldier's head up, and eventually the soldier sits up on his own steam. He appears relatively calm and the questioning goes like this...
...then there is a fourth soldier, sitting in a chair; he's extremely nervous, as if he fears he'll be shot at any second. His head is darting around as he looks at the people around the room. His voice is almost breaking when he speaks, but he does not look injured. His questioning goes like this...