PERSIAN GULF WAR
Infantry patrol involved
in skirmish with Iraqis
NORTHKKN SAI D! ARA
BIA (AIM A i>t Infantry Di
vision patrol skirmished ear
ly Tuesday with an Iraqi re
connaissance patrol that at
times acted as if it planned to
surrender, unit officers said
The 1st Infantry patrol
played cat and mouse with
the Iraqi patrol for about four
hours before firing mat bine
guns at the Iraqis, reportedly
hitting at least one
"We started to pick them
up in ones and twos through
our thermal sights." said I.t.
Col. Skip Baker.
lie said one patrol leader
appeared to he holding a flag
as if trying to attract the at
tenlion of t' S soldiers to
surrender
But as the patrol advanced,
it would periodically drop
down into small ditc hes and
disappear. then reappear
elsewhere
After repeated similar ini i
dents and with the patrol still
heading south. Maker said he
dei ided the unit had given it
ample opportunity to surren
der.
"We fired them up," Baker
said.
"We know we hit one. we
could see >i pool of tdood in
the thermal sights." said
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Bill unfair to U.S. servicewomen
WASHINGTON (AIM Defense IVpartment
offii dais '..nil Tuesdai that a bill In prevent the as
signmeiit ol l«itl> military parents of vmmii i hil
dren to .1 war /one would turn American
serve nwomen into sei ond class military i iti/ens
Ibis legislation threatens to turn hack the
i lot k to the time when marriage and motherhood
caused a discharge or discrimination in assign
ment." said Christopher Jehn assistant secretary
of defense for fori e management and personnel
Ihe comments by the Pentagon of fit ial < ame
as a House Armed Services sulx nmmittee exam
med several hills pending in Congress to limit or
prohibit sending both parents or a single parent
to a i onihat area
The war in the Persian Gulf and the images
of both parents leaving small ( llildrcn for servile
in tin1 gulf prompted the introdur lion of nuttier
mis hills
The Defense Department has said in. too
sole-i ustodv single parents, and l.-’UO couples
with children, have been deployed in Operation
Desert Storm
As the sulx ommiPee on military personnel
and compensation reviewed the issue. Defense
Secretary Die k Cheney, testifying elsewhere on
Capitol Hill, reiterated his opposition to reversing
<i IVntiigon polit.\ allowing the militiirv In simul
taueously assign both parents of a small i hilcl to
the yyar
What nr need from a military standpoint is
the ability to deploy units, and ne nould have to
begin disi rimiuuting against people based upon
whether or not they have dependents ot .1 certain
age Cheney told reporters .liter testifying before
another Mouse ( onunittee
Karlier this month, in a letter to Senate Nta
jorilv header (ieorge Mitchell. I) Maine. Cheney
said all memhers of the armed forces are colon
leers yvho assume an obligation that they yyill be
put in barm's yvay it 1 ailed upon
Among the lulls rey ievved by the House panel
are a measure sponsored by Rep liarbara Hover.
I) ( aid that nould require the military to dr< ide
in time of yy.ir whether to send a mother or father
ot 1 hildreu under age IH to a 1 umbel zone
Hover noted that in Ifltili. Cheney, then a fa
tber of young ( luldren. sought and rei eived a do
ferment from the draft for the V ietnam War
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