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Timothy Nein, Leigh Ann Hester, and Jason Mike

by Sydney J Freedberg Jr
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007


On the morning of March 20, 2005, Staff Sgt. Timothy Nein was a frustrated man. A veteran of the 2003 Iraq invasion, he had voluntarily switched from one unit of the Kentucky National Guard to another so that he could return to the battlefield. He made his squad of military police -- seven men, two women -- spend their one day off every week cleaning and maintaining their three armored Humvees. "I had a dry-erase board on the wall [at the base]," Nein said, "and every intersection, we would have a plan for, just like a football coach before a game."


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