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The future of the UK's Trident missile deterrent could be affected if Iran develops nuclear weapons, Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells has said. Mr Howells said any such development would throw the question of nuclear deterrence "back into the boiling pot". But Iran would not be able to produce nuclear weapons for "some time yet", he added. Trident received a £1bn boost in July to ensure the system is reliable. Mr Howells was speaking as Tory MPs voiced concern over Iran's regime. Mr Howells, responding to a question about the future of Trident, said: "If Iran does develop a nuclear...

Tony Blair and George Bush have "far more blood on their hands" than the terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings, George Galloway said today. Mr Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green, said that the attacks on the capital by Islamic extremists could not be separated from the invasion of Iraq and Britain's treatment of the Muslim world. He said that the "al-Qaida phenomenon" had arisen directly as a result of western policies in the Middle East. Mr Galloway had already attracted criticism for remarks made to Syrian television, attacking Arab governments which collaborated with foreigners in the "rape"...

Today I had the honor of supporting President Bush's agenda to further improve international relations with Russia! Today I worked with a Russian MP for several hours on a "SFOR - Safety Checkpoint".. FReegards, DavidIn this picture I am showing the Russian MP (left) how to use our radar (speed measuring device) Russian Cadet Soldier/Translator (right)

Federal judges here have dismissed hundreds of traffic tickets over the past several months since a federal appeals court ruled that streets on military bases and their access roads are not public highways. Weekly traffic dockets in the court have dropped significantly, along with revenue from fines that help support the justice system. example, two defendants didn't even bother showing up on misdemeanor charges of driving on a suspended license. But it didn't matter: The charges were dismissed. In another case, a judge threw out a felony habitual offender case. "I've noticed we've dismissed several hundred of these cases," Magistrate...

Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, 617th Military Police Company, Iraq FEMALE SERGEANT WINS SILVER STAR Terrorists Humiliated By Woman Warrior From Hell A female military police soldier was awarded a Silver Star Thursday in Iraq for helping to fight off insurgent forces that ambushed her convoy in March. Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester of the 617th Military Police Company, a National Guard unit out of Richmond, Ky., is the first woman since World War II to receive the prestigious award for bravery under fire, according to a Defense Department press release. Hester, 23, received the award along with two other soldiers from...

Anti-war politician George Galloway has accused Oona King, the Labour MP he defeated at the General Election, of "sour grapes" and said it was he, not she, who suffered from intimidation during the campaign. Mr Galloway, who won Bethnal Green and Bow for Respect in one of the biggest upsets of the night, disputed a claim by Ms King that the campaign had been dirty. He told BBC News 24: "Well, she would say that, wouldn't she? "She was the loser of the election and it's sour grapes. "In fact, in so far as there was intimidation in Bethnal...

A married MP promised to stay with his wife yesterday after admitting that his personal assistant is having his baby.John Hemming, 46, a newly elected Liberal Democrat MP, said Emily Cox, 27, a city councillor with whom he has had an affair for six years, was expecting their child in November. He said his wife, Christine, was "not best pleased" when he broke the news to her but he had no intention of leaving her. Mrs Hemming said that even though she felt "betrayed and hurt" and that the pregnancy "sends out a disgraceful moral message", she would stand by...

Sergeant, 23, Is First Woman Awarded Silver Star Since World War IIBy John J. Lumpkin Associated Press Writer Published: Jun 16, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - A 23-year-old sergeant with the Kentucky National Guard on Thursday became the first female soldier to receive the Silver Star - the nation's third-highest medal for valor - since World War II. Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, who is from Nashville, Tenn., but serves in a Kentucky unit, received the award for gallantry during a March 20 insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq. Two men from her unit, the 617th Military Police Company of Richmond,...

TAJI, Iraq (Army News Service, June 8, 2005) – The Iraqi Army’s Operation Lightning resulted in several detainees and weapons confiscations in Taji and across Iraq, said military officials. Searches in Taji are part of the larger Iraqi Army operation to disrupt the enemy’s ability to attack the legitimately-elected government and innocent citizens of Iraq. The first few days of the operation have provided several good leads. Elements of 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division; 1st Battalion, 13th Armor Regim----

IN A SENSE, the showdown between George Galloway, the antiwar British member of Parliament accused of receiving "oil allocations" from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), chairman of the investigations subcommittee that made the accusation, was a classic clash of British and American political cultures. Mr. Galloway did what many British politicians do well: He used fiery rhetoric and clever phrases, calling the committee "a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists" in advance of his testimony, then accusing Mr. Coleman in the Senate of inventing the "mother of all smokescreens," deliberately designed to "divert attention...

GEORGE Galloway yesterday failed in his attempt to convince a sceptical US Senate investigative committee that he had not profited from oil dealings with Iraq under the UN’s controversial oil-for-food programme. Despite a typically barnstorming performance full of bluster and rhetorical flourishes, the former Glasgow Kelvin MP was pinned down by persistent questioning over his business relationship with Fawaz Zureikat, the chairman of the Mariam Appeal - set up to assist a four-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia. And it was a Democrat senator, Carl Levin, rather than the Republican committee chairman, Norm Coleman, who gave him the hardest time...

Fighting talk as Galloway meets Senate accusers By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 17/05/2005) George Galloway MP arrived in Washington last night, promising to turn the tables on his accusers in the US Senate today when he meets them face to face to reject allegations that he profited from the sale of Iraqi oil under Saddam Hussein's regime. George Galloway arrives in Washington yesterday The powerful Senate permanent sub-committee on investigations plans to question the MP on his alleged dealings with the regime during more than a decade of campaigning for the lifting of United Nations sanctions. Arriving in Washington,...

~~snip~~It is those voters, overwhelmingly Muslim, who should concern us at least as much as Mr. Galloway. Across the country, city after city with a large Muslim minority showed an above average swing against Mr. Blair and Labor. It seems pretty clear that the great majority of Britain's 2.5 million Muslims obeyed the instructions of their imams or community leaders and voted en bloc for whichever antiwar party seemed to have the best chance of defeating the Blair government. The Muslim defection from their traditional allegiance to Labor cost Mr. Blair up to half of the seats he lost and...

CAMP BUCCA, IRAQ -- U.S. military police Friday thwarted a massive escape attempt by suspected insurgents and terrorists from this southern Iraq Army base that houses more than 6,000 detainees when they uncovered a 600-foot tunnel the detainees had dug under their compound. "We were very close to a very bad thing," Major Gen. William Brandenburg said Friday after troops under his command discovered the tunnel that prisoners had painstakingly dug with the help of makeshift tools. Within hours of the discovery on the first tunnel, a second tunnel of about 300 feet was detected under an adjoining compound in...

FORT HUACHUCA - It was early, it was dark and there was a cold bite in the air. But that didn't phase a small group of soldiers from the 18th Military Police Detachment. They had a mission to do Wednesday, and it wasn't associated with law enforcement. The soldiers were putting more miles on their boots, preparing for the Bataan Memorial Death March next month. "Each will have more than 100 miles on their boots," Capt. Randolph Morgan said. Morgan is included in that group. He is the captain of the MP detachment's five-man Military Heavy Division team that will...

An attorney for a U.S. Army soldier court-martialed in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says he's frustrated that he was not allowed in court to try to link the prison abuse to top-ranked military officials, including the incoming Fort Huachuca commander. Paul Bergrin, a New Jersey lawyer, said Monday that he will press his efforts to link the scandal with higher-ups to the Court of Military Review and, if necessary, the Court of Military Appeals. His client, Sgt. Javal S. Davis of Roselle, N.J., pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty, lying to investigators and battery last Tuesday as...

MP's wife introduced him to Saddam sympathiser, writes CAMERON SIMPSON and AARON HICKLIN GEORGE Galloway first met the shadowy figure of Fawaz Zureikat through his Palestinian wife. The fateful meeting was to propel the man who goes under the soubriquets of "Gorgeous George" and the "MP for Baghdad Central" into one of the biggest crises of his colourful career. Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, 36, a Jerusalem-born scientist who married Mr Galloway in a secret ceremony in London in February 2000, had gone to the same university in Jordan as Mr Zureikat. Mr Zureikat's name first surfaced in a letter from Mr...

A Jordanian business man, Fawaz Zureikat, whose name was revealed yesterday as an allegedly business intermediary between Labour member of Parliament George Galloway and Saddam Hussain's regime, has been detained in Amman. George Galloway MP, a familiar face to Arab public, is at the top of the news once again, but this time as having been, allegedly, on the pay-roll of Saddam Hussain's regime, at least since 2000. The allegations, claimed to have been uncovered in "secret documents" found by a reporter in two charred boxes at the first floor of the looted foreign ministry in Baghdad are many and...

FORT HOOD -- In his quarter century working in military courts, attorney Guy Womack can count on the fingers of one hand the times he has allowed a client to testify. "My knee-jerk reaction is never to do that," said Womack, an ex-Marine Corps lawyer based in Houston. "I've never regretted not doing that." But he may make an exception to his rule for Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the Army reservist accused of leading the much-publicized abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He says Graner, whose trial begins with opening statements Monday, can explain better than anyone...

No one is indispensable. As we all know, MP Carolyn Parrish was booted out of the Liberal caucus after her vitriol, usually reserved for the "bastards" and the "idiots" to the south, was spewed at Prime Minister Paul Martin and his inner circle. And as nature abhors a vacuum, it was only a matter of time before a successor stepped up to the plate. In the wake of the horrific tsunamis that ravaged parts of South Asia, Acting Prime Minister Bill Graham (acting in the sense that Graham appeared to be the only relevant cabinet minister that felt that a...

OTTAWA -- Unhappy with RCMP answers about what was seen as excessive security during last week's presidential visit, members of Parliament are setting their sights higher up the Mountie chain of command. MPs hauled an inspector and a sergeant-major on the carpet Tuesday to explain why some members and senators had a hard time getting through security lines during the presidential visit. They weren't happy with the answers and decided to call Dwight McCallum, assistant commissioner and director of protective policing, and Line Carbonneau, chief superintendent for protective operations, to appear next week. A suggestion to call Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli,...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. .................................................................. .................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should...

Carolyn Parrish was accorded a free ride for her anti-American tirades--until the Drudge Report checked in. Drudge prominently displayed the infamous picture of Parrish’s expensively booted foot crushing a George W. Bush doll over the story of her upcoming Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) foot-stomping stunt. Today the Liberal MP’s debut on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes foot-stomping antics takes the backseat as a marginalized Parrish rendered her swan song from the abysmal ranks of the Canadian independent. Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin finally got around to firing his mean-mouthed backbencher yesterday–and that story is up on Drudge too. The...

The Prime Minister Paul Martin-led Canadian Liberal Government is about to have a good laugh on the rest of us. With the help of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stooges, they’ve got it nailed down to a fine science. The controversy over their backbench MP Carolyn Parrish grinding her boot on a George W. Bush doll on CBC’s satirical This Hour Has 22 Minutes tomorrow, could not have been carried off without Liberal government approval. CBC is a Crown Corporation–bought, paid for and sustained with millions of tax dollars by the Liberal Government in Ottawa. The outrage of the government over...

It’s too bad Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn’t get to read the legions of letters that pour into Canada Free Press from angry Americans, fed up with the barrage of anti-American sentiment emanating from that heckling country next door. But it’s unlikely Martin even gets to read his meeting agendas, surrounded as he is by minions more interested in seeing that he always tows the politically correct line on which his nation has come to lean so heavily. You can depend that Martin reads every line that comes out of the prolific, politically correct United Nations. UN Secretary General Kofi...

We simply must find out what shoe store Carolyn Parrish patronizes (“matronizes”?). Her selections must be very tasty, considering the number of times she takes one out of her mouth for the sole purpose of replacing it with another. She is the Liberal Member of Parliament who made headlines some moons ago by calling Americans “bastards.” This was followed up with a speech at a political rally a few months later when she referred to U.S. President Bush’s “coalition of the willing” as a “coalition of idiots.” So, it would appear that her disdain encompasses Brits and Aussies as well...

From Canada Free Press newspaper today, One upmanship factor in "Coalition of Idiots" MP mail response shows the anti-American hatred by Canadian Liberal politicians. Here is the first bit of it: One upmanship seems more important than sincerity when Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish responds to email and letter writers complaining about her anti-American rhetoric. In fact, people writing letters of complaint about her latest anti-American slurs get form letters in reply, Canada Free Presshas learned. Letters to Parrish are computer rated as "positive", "constructively critical" or "crude, vile or threatening" before writers get a response.

08-30-2004 I've been here a week, and it feels like a month. We're in a transition period because the company we're taking over for is leaving soon. This is the quiet before the storm. After the changeover, we'll be busy. Our company is spread all over Iraq. Our commanding officer and first sergeant went to visit some of our Marines stationed elsewhere, and they told us we have it really good down here. Have it really good?? I can only imagine the conditions those others are living in. It's hot here. I feel like I'm getting a tan inside my...

Why I Serve: The Memories Keep 'Sarge' Going By Master Sgt. Jack Gordon, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service LOGISTICS SUPPORT AREA ANACONDA, BALAD, Iraq, Sept. 20 2004 – "I've been taking taxpayers' money all these years, and I can't refuse duty. It would be like me telling my mom and dad 'thanks for the money' without giving them anything back for it." Army Sgt. Jack Cormack of the 362nd Military Police Battalion, Ashley, Pa., uses a speed gun to track speeders on Logistics Support Area Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. The bullet hole in the unit's patrol car –came from...

BG Karpinski, the EX-Commander of the 800th MP Bde cries "IT'S A CONSPIRACY!" snip------

Refugee who became Dutch MP defies Islam with film about Koran By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 31/08/2004) After describing the Prophet Mohammed as a pervert, Ayaan Hirsi Ali already needs round-the-clock protection from the Dutch security services. Now the Muslim apostate and rising star of Dutch politics has pushed her luck even further with a film exhibiting verses of the Koran across the chest, stomach and thighs of an almost naked girl. Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mrs Hirsi Ali, who has risen from Somali asylum seeker to Dutch MP in 12 years, produced the film broadcast on Dutch television on...

American military police yesterday raided a building belonging to the Iraqi ministry of the interior where prisoners were allegedly being physically abused by Iraqi interrogators. The raid appeared to be a violation of the country's new sovereignty, leading to angry scenes inside the ministry between Iraqi policemen and US soldiers. The military police, who had been told of abuse, seized an area known as the Guesthouse just outside the ministry's main building. They disarmed the Iraqi policemen and at one stage threatened to set free prisoners whose handcuffs they removed, according to Iraqi officials. The arrival of a second group...

MAIN SUPPLY ROUTE TAMPA, Iraq — The radio inside Sgt. Jim Tomlinson’s armored Humvee chatters out details of a firefight along the road up ahead. The infantryman calls to Spc. Stephen Lord, the machine gunner up top, to be alert. “A unit is taking small arms fire, engaging the enemy on both sides,” Tomlinson yells. “51 Alpha.” Lord knows what that means. Tomlinson’s words, 51 Alpha, refer to an overpass along the highway just inside Baghdad’s North End. A roadside bomb that insurgents planted there recently earned Lord a Purple Heart when it exploded above the 19-year-old generator mechanic from...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- For American military police patrolling the streets of Baghdad, the scariest thing about this war is that they seldom control their contact with the enemy. That contact normally involves the detonation of a roadside bomb, car bomb, or rocket-propelled grenade that comes out of nowhere, fired by insurgents who quickly slip away. It is a contact common to warfare since medieval times, brutal and instantaneous: metal smashing against metal. And that's why MPs rolling out of the gates of Camp Graceland, on the south side of Baghdad, feel safest in a heavily armored experimental vehicle that is...

The MPs of Connecticut's 143rd Went To Iraq To Restore Order After The War Seemed Won. But The Struggle Had Just Begun.Over the course of a year in Iraq, the 143rd would come to know fear under enemy fire. They'd be shot at, cursed, bombed and shelled. They'd do their best to help the Iraqi people, and understand, too, that not all Iraqis welcomed their presence. Some would find love. And though it might be a defining time for their generation, they couldn't wait to have it all done with.

The Pics photographed in Abu Ghraib Kept the news in paroxysms of rage, But in ALL… we could see…. The SAME seven MPs And that SAME cigarette smokin’ babe!

WASHINGTON, May 17 — The American officer who was in charge of interrogations at the Abu Ghraib prison has told a senior Army investigator that intelligence officers sometimes instructed the military police to force Iraqi detainees to strip naked and to shackle them before questioning them. But he said those measures were not imposed "unless there is some good reason." The officer, Col. Thomas M. Pappas, commander of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, also told the investigator, Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, that his unit had "no formal system in place" to monitor instructions they had given to military guards,...

(FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., May 12th, 2004, 12:30 p.m.) -- A military police battalion was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation on Wednesday for extraordinary heroism in Iraq, receiving it for the second time in unit history. The award Wednesday for the 716th Military Police Company was especially gratifying to the soldiers because it contrasts news out of Iraq about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military police officers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "I think you should take this story and put it right over top of the other one," said Terri Dorn, commander of the 194th Military...

Soldiers' Warnings Ignored Failures: The blame for what happened at Abu Ghraib goes far beyond the military police, intelligence soldiers say. "May 9, 2004 WIESBADEN, Germany - The two military intelligence soldiers, assigned interrogation duties at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, were young, relatively new to the Army and had only one day of training on how to pry information from high-value prisoners. But almost immediately on their arrival in Iraq, say the two members of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, they recognized that what was happening around them was wrong, morally and legally..."

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The prisoner abuse scandal has so tarnished the Army's 800th Military Police Brigade that soldiers slated to receive an Army Bronze Star medal have been dropped from the list, the brigade's commander, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, said Sunday. "The vast majority of fine, outstanding soldiers in the brigade are paying dearly," Karpinski told The Associated Press in an e-mail. After the Army started its investigation into abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib penitentiary, "many, many" of the soldiers' recommendations for the Army medal were downgraded, said Karpinski, whose 2,800-member brigade operated 12 U.S. prisons and...

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq - A U.S. Army investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison depicts the military police running the penitentiary as a motley lot, overwhelmed by one of the worst assignments in Iraq and bitter about the military's broken promises of going home. When Pentagon investigators arrived at the prison west of Baghdad, they found fatalistic Army Reservists toting weapons while wearing civilian clothes. Also, command authority had been replaced by old friendships, said a report written by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba. "We were stretched thin and (headquarters) continued to assign us more missions far outside of our capabilities,"...

FORT HUACHUCA - While much of the turmoil involving the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has centered around improper actions by Military Police soldiers, the military intelligence community is not immune. A report by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba highlighted some problems within the intelligence community involving the mistreatment - physical and mental - of Iraqis. Leaders, soldiers and civilians at the Intelligence Center on Fort Huachuca are dealing with the realization that some intelligence soldiers could be involved in the abuse. For many, the shocking news including photographic proof of what MPs did, reportedly by some under orders from intelligence...

ANTIOCH, California (Reuters) - Three U.S. military policemen who served at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison said on Thursday they had witnessed unreported cases of prisoner abuse and that the practice against Iraqis was commonplace. "It is a common thing to abuse prisoners," said Sgt. Mike Sindar, 25, a National Guardsman with the 870th Military Police Company based in the San Francisco Bay area. "I saw beatings all the time. "A lot of people had so much pent-up anger, so much aggression." U.S. treatment of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib has stirred wide international condemnation after the publication of photos in...

(Long read but worth it) Reports of Iraqi prisoner abuse that sent shock waves around the world have touched a nerve in Southern Arizona, the nation's training ground for Army interrogators. In Sierra Vista, home of the school that produced virtually every Army interrogator now working in Iraq, many are reeling from the recent revelations that have implicated, among others, a former Fort Huachuca official. At least two military intelligence officers - including one who held a senior post at Fort Huachuca in recent years - have been identified as key figures in the abuse scandal at Iraq's infamous Abu...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version May 03, 2004, 8:40 a.m. Post-Saddam Crimes at Abu GhraibPunish and learn. By Jed Babbin Saddam's regime made the Abu Ghraib prison complex a place where torture and murder were commonplace. When the Iraqi regime fell, so did most of Abu Ghraib. Now partly rebuilt, it is the prison where hundreds of Iraqi detainees, foreign insurgents, and prisoners of war are kept under the custody of one battalion of the Army's 800th Military Police Brigade. Last year, some military police and intelligence personnel abused a...

<p>By RALPH PETERS May 1, 2004 -- THE United States just experienced its first true disaster in Iraq. As news of the disgraceful mistreatment of prisoners by American soldiers sweeps the world, our enemies celebrate a major propaganda gift. Even our friends cannot defend the indefensible. On the battlefield, we must be fierce. But once an enemy becomes a prisoner of our military, he must be treated justly and humanely. Strictness, yes. Abuse, no.</p>

A Massacre in Kosovo A member of the United Nations police force murders his American colleagues. by Stephen Schwartz 04/29/2004 12:00:00 AM ON APRIL 17, as reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, two American women and an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force in the territory. The male American, who died of his wounds, was Gary Weston, of Vienna, Illinois. The Palestinian, Sergeant Major Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim...

ON APRIL 17, as reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, two American women and an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force in the territory. The male American, who died of his wounds, was Gary Weston, of Vienna, Illinois. The Palestinian, Sergeant Major Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim Ali, was killed when members of the contingent in which the Americans were traveling returned fire. In the days since the first...

A Mount Independence family hopes government officials take action over their concerns for the safety of their son's military police unit in Iraq. Charles (Matt) and Candace Gibbs joined several other families of the U.S. Army Reserves, 372nd Military Police Company, based in Cumberland, Md., at a rally there on Friday, hoping to bring attention to the fears their soldiers have for themselves and their concerns over the lack of equipment and training. Their son, Spc. Russell Gibbs, 23, has been in Iraq for a year, having been activated in February 2003 and deployed to Iraq last May. Prior to...

Mark levy Herald/Review 04-20-04 Sgt. Garrett Davison shovels dirt on the grave of military working dog Pike. The dog was buried with military honors behind the 18th Military Police Detachments facility were the units military working dogs are kept on Fort Huachcua.Herald/Review FORT HUACHUCA - He had a short life, taking his first breath on Oct. 21, 2000, and his last on April 9 of this year. He was a GI, in the real sense of being government issued. But to the men and women of the 18th Military Police Detachment, Pike was like them a soldier - a...