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...Iraqi prison couldn't be further from home for those facing career-ending charges in the scandal. The 372nd Military Police Company, a unit of reservists based in a one-story brick building in Cresaptown, Md., draws most of its members from small, down-at-the-heels towns in the green valleys of Appalachia. Many sign on as teenagers, as England did, to get college benefits. Others, like Staff Sergeant Ivan (Chip) Frederick, are eager to see a bit of the world. Patriotism runs deep in this part of the country, and recruitment ads for the armed services constantly stream...
Members of the 372nd were a tight-knit group that was deployed to Bosnia in 2001, according to Kerry Shoemaker-Davis of Fort Ashby, W.Va., who left the unit that year but whose husband remains with the 372nd in Iraq. After drills, she relates, members would head to the Big Claw bar near headquarters for beer, buffalo wings, karaoke and the raunchy jokes that the mostly male company loved to tell. "Oh, yeah, we would party," she says. "We would take the place over" and often shut it down...
Meeks said he hopes to return to Iraq. But, he said, “it depends on whether my unit is deployed before my injuries heal...
Moulton was deployed to Kuwait in January 2003 and fought with the First Marine Regiment in the attack on the Iraqi capital. “Once the ‘war,’ as we knew it, was declared over,” Moulton said, his unit moved south to the town of Hillah...
Forgive the No. 34 Harvard women’s tennis team if today’s six starters don’t quite recognize each other. After all, they’ve only played together as a unit once before...