Word: trooper
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...more troops. The Pentagon says it's half that. But a new study by consulting firm Deloitte makes clear that fighting inside a landlocked country where the Taliban has shut down much of the meager road network has drastically inflated even routine costs. The average U.S. trooper in Afghanistan requires 22 gal. (83 L) of fuel a day--but the cost of buying a gallon of fuel and shipping it to the deepest corners of the country averages $45. That's nearly $1,000 a day per soldier...
Retired Kentucky state trooper Gilbert Acciardo, who worked with Sparkman at the elementary school, told the Associated Press that he'd cautioned Sparkman about the Census work. "I told him on more than one occasion, based on my years in the state police ... when you go into those counties, be careful, because people are going to perceive you different than they do elsewhere." But Roy Silver, a sociology professor at Southeast Community College in Harlan County, told the wire service that he doesn't think "distrust of government is any more or less here than anywhere else in the country...
...experience under her belt before she turned 18. She befriended mob bosses, champion boxers, and politicians—including JFK. But this didn’t seem to prevent her from being imprisoned at various points by the Chicago Mafia and “an overzealous State Trooper...
SARAH PALIN, Republican vice-presidential hopeful, when asked about an Alaskan legislative panel that concluded she abused her power as governor by pressuring Walter Monegan (below), then the state's public-safety commissioner, to fire a state trooper over a family dispute...
...have come sooner. After being fired in early July from his position by Governor Sarah Palin, Monegan quickly asserted that the reasons for his firing were unethical and unjustified. He maintained he was dismissed because he refused to succumb to pressure from the Palin administration to fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was at that time going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann. Monegan claimed the governor's office had contacted him more than two dozen times pressuring him to fire Wooten...