With her Buddhist and Celtic tattoos, a literature degree, drug-taking teenage years and penchant for punk music, Kayla Williams was never going to be your typical "grunt". The former United States Army sergeant, who finished a five-year stint in military intelligence in June, has applied to attend graduate school at Georgetown University in Washington to further her Arabic studies after being an army interpreter. Yet between leaving the army and getting married last week to a fellow soldier who suffered brain injuries in Iraq, Williams, 28, has also found time to launch a book. Her prose is uncompromising. Gun in your hands, and you're in a special place. I've come to look forward to that. Among the plethora of military memoirs and weblogs about frontline life, Williams's book stands out as the first to be written from a woman's perspective.
The base is located in Abu Ghraib, in the Anbar province. It is only 32 km away from the Baghdad downtown and just 15 km from the international airport of the Iraqi capital. It […]. The base is relatively small and is adjacent to another base nearby — Dreamland.
That was among the findings in an investigation into child sexual abuse by the Afghan security forces and the supposed indifference of the American military to the problem, according to a report released on Monday by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, known as Sigar. The report was finished in June , but it appears to have included data only through , before the Trump administration took office. Sopko, the special inspector general. When Congress passed the Leahy laws they prioritized the issue of gross human rights violations. As our report clearly shows, both agencies failed to live up to that task.