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By Vicki L. Friedman | The Virginian-Pilot Alicia Ahlgrim loves to sleep in.
NEW YORK - On the occasion of Fleet Week, Joe Girardi still looks like the naval commander ordering every sailor out of the bars and strip joints and back to KP duty on the battleship. Girardi swears he's all about fun, yet he looks about as fun as a pre-dawn missile exercise in the heat of a cold war.
FORT BELVOIR, Va. - A homemade wind chime with the word "Whining" under a red slash is made from metal parts put in his leg after a parachute accident. Every Sunday he trims his crew cut. He didn't join the Army willingly, but as Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger prepares to retire, he's grateful he found his calling. Mellinger was drafted to fight the Vietnam War, and the Army believes he's the last draftee to retire, after 39 years. Most did their two years and left. But Mellinger had found home.
Podcast: Layoffs part of city budget plan SAN BERNARDINO - A fire engine crew and more than 30 crossing guards are on a list of proposed spending cuts that give an early look at how the city may hack millions from its next budget.
Mike Whicker had a lot to say about what he did and what he learned during his month as a crewman aboard LST 325. But he kept coming back to the other 37 crewmen -- most of them septuagenarians, some in their 80s -- he served with on the Washington-to-Boston leg of the World War II ship's summer voyage. What kind of people were they ? A story.
So what do the Yankees do now that they know CC Sabathia can't beat the Red Sox and Mariano Rivera still is good for at least one blown save a year in Fenway? They can buy into Joe Girardi's crew-cut stoicism and dismiss the lost weekend at Fenway. "We'll bounce back," the manager said after Sunday night's 3-2 loss in 10 innings. "We always do.
Chances are you've seen him on TV, maybe in between your favorite shows. He's the one with the crew cut, the voice, the "Come join the par- tay!" who makes buying a used car sound like more joy than a day at the beach.
Andrew Rowsey spends more time at VMI than anyone not sporting a gray uniform and a crew cut. The 16-year-old is a rare species on the old military post.
A former dental surgeon from Fort Lee and a crew of alleged cohorts stole bones and tissue from corpses using a secret carving chamber in a Brooklyn funeral home, authorities charged Thursday. Michael Mastromarino, owner of BioMedical Tissue Services, and three other men each face more than 25 years in prison if convicted of enterprise corruption, body stealing, opening graves and unlawful dissection, among other charges in a massive 122-count indictment returned by a Kings County, N.Y., grand jury.
Three firefighters on truck Re "Safety in numbers? Plan to cut fire engine crew size raises union concerns" (Page 1, Aug. 7):
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