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...where the Army's Special Operations Command has its headquarters, looking for Green Berets interested in even more unconventional work and higher pay (a starting SOG officer can earn more than $50,000 a year; a sergeant in the Green Berets begins at about $41,000). Special-forces soldiers, Navy seals and Air Force commandos are routinely dispatched to the agency on a temporary basis to provide special military skills that the CIA needs for specific missions. If a soldier is assigned highly clandestine work, his records are changed to make it appear as if he resigned from the military...
...have to volunteer for this?" Then she looks at him and answers her own question. "He's a really good man, and it means so much to him." When he was seeking to re-enlist, the Army offered more options than the Marines, especially to an older soldier. "In the Marine Corps," Tracey notes, "the philosophy is, if they want you to have a family, they'll issue you one." So now this family finds itself at Fort Stewart, about to be ripped in half...
...look as if they were meant to be temporary back in 1941. It's cold this week at Camp Swampy, down in the 20s in the morning as the last-minute training picks up and the clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter-inch hole in a soccer ball at 100 yards. They must make sure the right equipment is shipped--from helicopters shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect them from the salt air on the ships heading...
...close to cool as regulations allow. Not that it touches his ears, but his hair is probably the longest in the company. At 31, he is a dozen years older than some of his 140 men--women can't serve in infantry units like this--and has been a soldier longer than that if you count his years at West Point. C Company Private Adam Harting is six months out of high school, with wide blue eyes in a still forming face. He knew that joining the Army could mean going off to fight, but he didn't really expect...
...just a dogface soldier With a rifle on my shoulder, And I eat raw meat for breakfast every day. So feed me ammunition, Keep me in the 3rd Division, Your dogface soldier...