Jeremy Healy served his country for 12 years in the US Army Reserves from 2001 to 2013. He was discharged as a sergeant.
His basic training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma began in somewhat dramatic fashion. âThings were a little relaxed when I first got there. I was signing my dog tag papers, when all of a sudden an air raid siren went off and they took us to a fieldâ¦said we could go home now if we wantedâtwo planes had just hit the World Trade Center. 9/11 had happened. From then on, they made things more intenseâ¦used live rounds of ammunition and trained us like crazy.â
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As US troops prepare to pull out, a look at the war in Afghanistan by the numbers
Biden to announce that U.S. troops will pull out by 20th anniversary of Sept. 11
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US defense chief makes surprise Afghanistan visit
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan as the U.S. nears a May 1 deadline to withdraw American troops from the country. Massoud Hossaini/AFP via Getty Images, FILE
President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday that all American troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Willie Sutton (Slick Willie) was an early 20th century Brooklyn-born, Irish American villain who was the product of the Roaring Twenties, a decade of economic prosperity, carefree living and women’s suffrage that ended in 1929 with the stock market crash and the advent of the Great Depression.
Sutton did a lot of things in his long career of chicanery, most notably as a bank robber, before he died in 1980 at the advanced age of 79, after having spent close to 40 years in and out of Federal prisons.
We invoke this colourful character here because of the oft-quoted aphorism he nonchalantly proffered to a reporter who at one time asked him why he robbed banks. Sutton responded simply: “Because that’s where the money is”. That pithy rejoinder went on to become known as the Sutton Rule, which states that when wading through a problem, or facing a challenge, one should first consider the obvious, as, say, contained in the adage, “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebra
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