June 20, 2002 I wasn’t prepared for the size. Most maps put a little box with Alaska and Hawaii down in the left hand corner, off the coast of southern California, and proportionally, Alaska looks about the size of Utah. You know it’s bigger than that. But...
December 10, 2003 ABC-News producer Mike Gudgell and I were walking along a dirt road at Camp Udari, Kuwait, just days before we headed into Iraq, when something large and lethal passed us from behind. A 20-ton, eight-wheeled, lightly armored Stryker. We...
March 26, 2003 His cot is across the tent from mine. As I look at it now, every camouflage green bag containing Army-issue clothes and Army-issue ammunition and Army-issue gadgets is neatly zipped, strapped and stacked. His towel hangs perfectly straight...
July 27, 2002 On the gigantic canvass of the Kuwaiti desert an abstract painting is being created by the churning tracks of M1-A1 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and mechanized howitzers. It’s an ensemble piece, the artists being U.S. Army drivers and...
July 27, 2002 The road to Kuwait City is a six-lane superhighway populated by exotic European luxury cars and the latest SUV’s. It has pedestrian overpasses, well-designed exit-ramps, and trash-free grassy medians that rival anything the U.S. has to...
