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Trends in America defy traditional beliefs about women in the military. While women cannot be required to register for a draft, a growing number of women are volunteering for military service. In 2002, there were 212,000 women on active duty serving in nearly every type of unit, including combat units. Over 40,000 women fought in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and one out of every five women in uniform was deployed in direct support of the troops in Iraq and Kuwait...
...Bison offense, which outshot Harvard 35-27, was a different story. The unit distributed the ball well and saw eight different players score, including Worthy Sanders, who figured in two of the first three goals...
...your head / So don’t push me / Fill your ass up with lead / So don’t push me,” he threatens on “Don’t Push Me,” with Eminem and Lloyd Banks of his posse G Unit backing him up. This is not surprising coming from the guy who recently told Rolling Stone that “I shot people before. But I ain’t gonna tell...
...could have been worse. Four Kurdish soldiers, known as peshmerga (those who face death) were saved by their meal break. They'd been called for lunch at their unit's small command post on the other side of the road as the taxi approached. Another soldier, sitting in his gun emplacement overlooking the site, had watched his comrades cut down, unable to help. In the confusion afterwards a dozen armed men wandered among the wreckage, stepping gingerly through the human remains littering the asphalt. "We're distraught, this was a good man who died here, our friend...
...Kurdish trenches are hit by mortar and heavy machinegun fire from the Ansar lines on a daily basis. On Monday night, TIME's correspondent had sheltered with a peshmerga frontline unit through a four-hour barrage. But the resort to suicide tactics shifts the boundaries. Some of the soldiers present during the attack at the Zamaqi roadblock claim a suicide bomber struck the Halabja bazaar last year. However, a Kurdish political officer assigned to oversee the Ansar front, Burhan Saeed Sofi from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (which controls the Kurdish region's eastern half) says that attack...