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Nasty weather slows Charlie Company's gear loading By RON MARTZAtlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Related:• GIs get combat stress counselings• Wednesday's Brant Sanderlin photos from Kuwait• Revisiting Charlie Co. in Iraq CAMP NEW YORK, Kuwait -- The weather that was merely annoying for Charlie Co. soldiers on Tuesday turned downright nasty Wednesday. Working in high winds under brownout conditions that at times made it impossible to see more than a few feet, the soldiers labored through customs inspections required before sending tons of gear back to Fort Stewart."This wind is tough. It's like getting beat up all day and not...

Slowly, sombrely, the pallbearers walked the length of the tarmac. A light breeze caught the edge of a Union flag, draped over the walnut coffin of one of 10 dead British servicemen. Members of the Royal Navy carry the coffin of one of their comrades at RAF Brize Norton The band played Bach - silver trumpets reflecting hazy midday sunlight - while the parents of the first British casualties of the war stood in silent sadness as they watched their sons come home. At RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, 10 coffins were carried from a C17 cargo aircraft - a poignant...