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“These people are a little like Texans”
As the Queen’s Royal Hussars decamp from their 3-year-old permanent camp in Maysan province, Iraq and set out to be a constantly mobile force in the Iraqi desert because of constant mortar attacks by insurgents, regiment commander Lt. Col. David Labouchere had this quote of the day:
“Maysan is and will always be a problem child,” [...]
Marine of 1995 Okinawa Rape Commits Murder-Suicide
Kendrick Ledet of Smyrna Georgia, one of the three U.S. servicemen convicted for the notorious rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl in 1995, was found dead last week from self-inflicted knife wounds in the apartment of a 22-year-old college student who had been raped and then murdered by strangulation and a blow to the head, [...]