WASHINGTON —He is the U.S. Army’s most decorated living soldier and one of the more outrageous figures to emerge from the Vietnam War. Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army-ret.) gave 25 years of his life to the military, and when visitors ask why, he lets them have it right b...
hard helmets quickly came back as as the militias rose in power and thearmy's ability to control events in Basra waned. The palace became a magnet forinsurgent attacks and the last 550 troops there had been surrounded bymilitants in what was described as a 'cowboys and Indians' situation....