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An Introduction to Bravo Battery

2:08 PM, July 16, 2008 | Comments (5)
Bravo Battery soldiers during downtime. Photo: David Botti I've begun my embedding with Third Platoon, Bravo Battery 5-25 FA, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division, a field artillery unit out of Fort Polk, Louisiana. Downtown Baghdad these...

Pat Tillman's Legacy Four Years On

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Trying to Modernize the GI Bill

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  • Best in War Reporting: "Who's Rumsfeld?"

    David Botti | Apr 14, 2008 11:43 AM
    Today we're taking at look at a New York Times article written by C.J. Chivers around the time Donald Rumsfeld resigned from office.  Chivers, a former marine, is able to capture the mood and dialog of a Marine infantry squad in a simple and straight forward manner.  He let's the marines do the talking, and in doing so offers an ironic depiction of how some grunts relate to their leaders.

    The November 2006 piece occurs as Chivers is embedded with the squad in Zagarit, Iraq.  They have been sleeping in the house of a local Iraqi man, Hashim al-Menti, who sees on the television that Rumsfeld has resigned from his position as Secretary of Defense.  He informs the squads sergeant:     More
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