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...have left other careers. Among his colleagues, there are an ex-paralegal, ex-talent agent, ex-chef, ex-engineer, ex-international banker and ex-Governor's aide. First Sergeant Terry Horton, 47, retired from the Army three years ago. Currently, instead of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or traveling with the Army drill team, he teaches the 160 boys and girls enrolled in Chamblee's Junior ROTC. "I have a great rapport with the kids," he says. "They respect me, and I respect them." And, he adds, "there is not a day that goes by when...
...letters published here for Memorial Day evoke the same emotion in a plainer poetry of their own. Dating from World War I through the Vietnam conflict, they are the last letters the soldier-authors are known to have written, living testimonials from ordinary men who only suspected they were about to die. There is no vainglory of war in these missives, just the eternal mystery of man's preference for the call to arms over the Golden Rule. These epistles haunt the soul the same way the best war poems do--perhaps even more poignantly, because we know what their...
NANOTECHNOLOGY New processes will help create lighter, tougher body armor. Tiny sensors embedded in the fabric will detect wounds and report the soldier's status to medics...
Source: U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center Text by Kathleen Adams
...secret, high-capacity Internet helped keep up with the detailed top-down guidance and changing politics directed by an alliance of 19 sovereign states--all as the world's media looked on. After 78 days, the opposing leader gave in to NATO's demands, without a single NATO ground soldier having to fight his way into Serbia...