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"I want you to shoot me," he said. He must have been joking. It was a struggle to drive, never mind listen to rubbish like this, but he was serious. I was following an American Humvee in the middle of a Kuwaiti night in 2003. ...
"I want you to shoot me," he said. He must have been joking. It was a struggle to drive, never mind listen to rubbish like this, but he was serious. I was following an American Humvee in the middle of a Kuwaiti night in 2003. ...
The Afghanistan war started over ten years ago. We"ve seen maps and graphics on the news, but without Googling it, can you name the capital? What languages do they speak? Which countries border Afghanistan? Could you name three ...
If you were drawing up plans on how to run a private members" club, a larger society, or even a country, military life provides some good ground rules. SELECT YOUR MEMBERS CAREFULLY AND TREAT THEM WELL You wouldn"t want ...
Some soldiers are meant to join the elite forces, become spies, and swing through windows shouting and shooting. Some aren"t. That we"re all equal is one of the greatest lies ever told. Kids are told they can become anything ...
Sex and soldiers are the forces of life and death crashing into one another. It gets animalistic. It gets filmed. Luckily for me, the Ministry of Defence had decided to treat the British Army to single-man rooms by the time I"d ...
"They"re racist and they"ll kick your head in," a white man named Paul warned me outside a convenience store in Burnley. He"d heard I was starting basic training the next day. I"d been buying a few last things: ...
We used to joke about PTSD in the army. We used to call it the "new backache," meaning something doctors couldn"t prove but would get you out of work. Malingerers aren"t appreciated in the military. The ill were called ...
He saw people stare, but he looked right through them. His mind was on something satisfying. A distant thought made him smile. The bands on his right wrist read "Parachute Regiment" and "Walking With The Wounded." His ...
The word "hero" should not apply to every man and woman serving in the military. To blindly term everyone a hero takes away from those who do something extraordinary. It's like saying "our boys"; it takes away from ...
There are over seven thousand dead in Syria now. What are the Syrian soldiers thinking? The last post Marie Colvin made before her death tells us they"re "shelling a city of cold, starving civilians." Soldiers are taught ...
Should we seek the deeper meaning in the video of US Marines urinating on Taliban combatants’ dead bodies in the wilds of Afghanistan? What does it tell us about our country? What does it say about Washington and the hypocrites in ...
Ten years ago, I watched the Twin Towers fall. A San Francisco Examiner headline the next day summed up my feelings fairly well: “Bastards!” Of course we had to fight back. I thought there’d be a bit of a scuffle, much like the ...
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