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...Brown liked to assure people he is a “regular guy,” said JoAnne Bass, the chief master sergeant of the Air Force....
...And you think about Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. What do I do if this doesn’t work, or if that breaks? You have a kind of mental machinery that prepares you.”...
...Master Sergeant Sean Bittick, 30, a Virginia National Guard airman originally from Mississippi, said he was touched to learn that people were queueing up to donate food....
...“Big protest in D.C. on January 6,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on December 19, one of several posts advertising the event. “Be there, will be wild!”...
...The victim himself, Vernon C. Waters, duly takes centre stage as he berates and manipulates his men with a cascade of racist epithets that point to his own self-loathing....
...His less illustrious successor, Bruce Rioch, had a sternness that was attributed to his sergeant-major father....
...Alvin York – a Tennessee native whose heroism was depicted in the film Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper – wrote in his diary about making friends in a platoon populated by “Greeks and Italians and New...
...dramatic prisoner swap last week in Afghanistan, in which the US agreed to hand over five senior members of the Taliban to Qatar in return for freeing the sole remaining US prisoner of war in the country, Sergeant...
...The politics behind the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, however, have been anything but straightforward....
...Royal Australian Air Force loadmasters sergeant Adam Roberts and flight sergeant John Mancey launch a self-locating data marker buoy from a C-130J Hercules aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean as part of...
...Some US officials have played down the idea that such attacks are a “recruiting sergeant” for militants....
...“For a short period of time, you can stand on your head and swallow peanut butter,” says Wayne Saint Louis, a retired command sergeant major from the 101st airborne division, and vice-chair of the military...
...I told the drill sergeant supervising our training that I was sorry for my performance. And he shot right back with a laugh, “I know you are sorry, so what? Now keep trying until you get it right!”...
...“In Colombia, I am a simple corporal who might end up in jail, and earn $1,100 [a month], but [in the UAE] I will [be] a sergeant and earn $3,300 with much better benefits overall,” says a Colombian elite...
...It quoted a retired sergeant-major who was there: “Whatever you heard was probably true. It was awesome.”...
...Anti-western protests erupted in February after burnt copies of the Koran were found at a US base, while the killing of 17 Afghan civilians, apparently by a US army sergeant, in Kandahar province in March...
...But the murder in Kandahar on Sunday of 16 men, women and children, apparently by a US army sergeant, has confronted him with a dilemma of an entirely new magnitude....
...John Henry Browne said the soldier – who has been named as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales – could not remember the incident and that there were gaps in his memory....
...Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was also charged on Friday with six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault, said Colonel Gary Kolb, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan....
...The sergeant detained on Sunday is accused of going house to house in a remote community near Kandahar and shooting men, women and children....
...The sergeant’s killing spree may have even more profound implications in the west, reminding audiences of the dehumanising cost of war....
...However, if the region is a military camp, Australia is very much the Sergeants’ Mess....
...Any unilateral US operation would trigger a fierce anti-American backlash in Pakistan, potentially destabilise the fragile civilian government and serve as a persuasive recruiting sergeant for Islamist militant...
...In Washington, more uniformed and undercover Capitol Police officers are being deployed, as well as hazardous material and K-9 dog units, said Sergeant Kimberly Schneider, public information officer....
...Sergeant is now writing a book about the three years she has so far spent with Tuggy and the gang. She has grown to love them as though they were part of her family....
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