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US military taking supplies to Liberia BY JENNIFER H. SVAN AND JOSHUA DEMOTTS Stars and Stripes
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — The first U.S. military aircraft based here departed early Monday for Liberia on what is expected to be one of many flights taking supplies to West Africa to help with the Ebola outbreak. Before daylight, airmen loaded six pallets of cargo, including bottled water and portable food rations — Meals, Ready to Eat — onto the rear ramp of a C-130J Super Hercules on Ramstein’s flight line. The effort is part of what President Barack Obama has called an “air bridge” to take people and supplies to western Africa, said 86th Airlift Wing spokesman Maj. Tony Wickman. The plane, carrying aircrew, loadmasters and security personnel, was expected to stop in Spain and Senegal before landing to unload some or all of its cargo in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. Crews were expected to spend only a short time on the ground. “It’s exciting to get to do this and help out in any way we can,” said Capt. Brian Shea, a pilot with the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein and the mission’s aircraft commander. “It’s big for our unit, big for the air wing” to help U.S. Africa Command with the mission. Pentagon officials have said the United States could send nearly 4,000 military personnel to West
Water, MREs and other supplies to be used in the U.S. Ebola mission in Liberia are loaded onto a C-130 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Tuesday. Africa in the coming weeks to help with the fight against the Ebola virus. The virus is spreading rapidly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and has killed more than 3,400 people since March, according to the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Total cases so far total more than 7,400. It’s not certain whether the supplies being ferried by the 37th Airlift Squadron were designated for U.S. military personnel supporting the humanitarian effort in West Africa or for other international relief agencies, Air Force officials said. At this stage in the Defense Department’s response, “We
can’t clarify or identify who the supplies out of Ramstein are meant for,” said Air Force 2nd Lt. Henry Lancaster, an 86th Airlift Wing spokesman, in an email. More than 200 U.S. military personnel are already in the region, according to the Pentagon. Pentagon officials have said the risk of American servicemembers getting infected is relatively low since U.S. troops won’t be taking direct care of Ebola patients. Shea, the C-130 pilot at Ramstein, said he wasn’t worried about exposure to the virus. “No real concern,” he said. “We’re trying to minimize our time on the ground in that area for now. Later down the road, we’ll see
what changes.” The squadron expects the airlift mission to West Africa “to be a regular run for us, almost weekly,” he said. Crewmembers heading out Monday were briefed and trained “on how to handle the situation,” he said. “We have several medical members in our unit assigned to us. They give us all the advice we could ever need on how to handle Ebola, malaria,” Shea said. He said malaria — a virus that can be spread by the bite of an infected mosquito — “is our biggest threat down there.” svan.jennifer@stripes.com demotts.joshua@stripes.com
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An unmanned, rigid-hulled inflatable boat from Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock, Md., operates autonomously during a demonstration of swarm boat technology held on the James River in Newport News, Va., on Aug. 12. JOHN F. WILLIAMS /Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
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WASHINGTON — Two months ago, the Navy launched a fleet of “swarm boats” against a simulated enemy target – with no sailors on board. The successful demonstration of unmanned boats offers a view how the Navy could fight in the decades ahead, and they could be fielded by next year.
The test and the tech The August exercise simulated the transit of a large Navy vessel through a strait. The mission of the swarm boats was to protect the high-value ship as it navigated the narrow waters. During the demonstration, a manned aircraft flying over the river identified a vessel that posed a threat to the capital ship and sent a signal to 13 swarm boats below. The boats sensed their environ-
Navy debuts unmanned robotic boats with new swarm capability ment, planned their routes and maneuvered — without the assistance of a human operator — toward the danger in a synchronized fashion without hitting any of the dozens of ships and obstacles on the river. The boats’ paths were determined by sensors. “Each boat was sharing situational awareness information and ... seeing a fused picture of the other vessel traffic on the river. ... They were working as a team,” Robert Brizzolara, program manager at the Office of Naval Research, told reporters at the Pentagon last week. Once the swarm boats got close to the target, they blocked the path between the enemy and the American ship. “We were able to take our
unmanned surface vessels, leave the ... high value unit, engage the threat, encircle the threat, set up a barrier and then allow that HVU to proceed on safely,” Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, the chief of naval research, said. In this case, the enemy was a single ship that remained stationary during the exercise, but Klunder said the swarm boats have the capability to thwart multiple moving vessels if deployed in large numbers. Klunder envisions using up to 20 swarm boats at a time in tactical situations. During the August test, the swarm boats didn’t attack the enemy vessel because the purpose was to prove the complex maneuvering technology. But the boats
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14 Talks impudently to 20 Banished people 21 Loop in one’s pocket 22 Straighten, as a hose
98 Floor layer, at times
17 Officer’s honorific
75 Appeal
57 Suffix in many internet addresses
100 Start of a Tolstoy title 101 It makes soap strong
18 Univ. major of many writers
76 Like a philanthropist’s heart
58 Third little pig’s material
103 Wash the floor
19 Wild blue yonder
77 Fourth month
105 Skiing type
28 Handled roughly
108 Wiped out
31 Fair grades
78 Colorful parts of the eyes
112 Giraffe cousins
33 Enhance with decorations
79 Your sister’s daughter, to you
35 High-___ graphics
80 Chimps and such
36 What drinkers shouldn’t do
81 It could lead to a reduced sentence
37 Refuge in the desert
82 Paris subway system
39 Pierced in the bullring
84 Botanical gardens
118 Pain reliever
40 Jungian “self”
85 “We ___ Overcome”
119 Shoelace opening
41 Dental woe
87 Block found on a farm
43 Matured, as wine
88 Feminine subject
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23 Asian peninsula
63 This puzzle’s theme word
24 It was spoken in Iran
65 Gallery showing
25 The “E” in E = mc2
66 Mouths, slangily
26 Drama unit
70 Wee, as hours
27 Have an evening meal
72 Stir from sleep
29 Stack-blowing feeling
75 Short theatrical offering
30 Concerning base eight 32 Not this 34 Curved paths 36 Aspirin allotments 38 Old exclamation 42 Promissory-note receiver
74 Sound from 46-Across
78 Lacking fairness 80 Adore 83 Decorative flap on a garment 84 Emulate Amelia Earhart
114 Wave from the shore 115 Certain prison guard 116 Folded-back garment part 117 They have 88 things apt for this puzzle
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10 Language of Ireland
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11 Start for “wit”
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64 Adolescent
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68 Peel-removing gadget
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CARACaS’ advanced software and sensors, which Klunder calls “the secret sauce,” is what gives the device such high-tech capabilities. “The excitement about this technology is it is autonomous,” he said. However, the employment of CARACaS-equipped ships would be similar to drones in that a decision to use lethal force would be made by people, not machines. “We have every intention to … destroy [the enemy] if necessary, but always with a human in the loop,” Klunder said. He said he expects CARACaS to be fielded within a year. “This train is moving really fast,” he said.
The future The successful demonstration of the swarm boat concept has significant operational, technological, manpower and ethical implications for the Navy in the coming years and decades. The advent of unmanned naval systems means that fewer sailors will be needed to accomplish some missions. Instead of using three or four sailors to man human-piloted smarm boats — as the Navy does now — the operations of the autonomous vessels could be overseen remotely by just one sailor. The lower manpower requirements means more patrol boats can be put in the water to combat threats, according to Klunder. “That is the future,” he said. Using autonomous vessels also enhances the safety of sailors. “By using unmanned systems, you take humans potentially out of harm’s way,” Samuel Brannen, an unmanned systems expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Stars and Stripes. Brannen said swarm boats could prove immensely useful if Iran ever tried to use small vessels to wage asymmetric warfare against U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf or Strait of Hormuz. “That’s been a nightmare scenario for the Navy for some time,” he said. Klunder said a key motivation for creating the CARACaS system was to prevent terrorist attacks similar to the USS Cole bombing on Oct. 12, 2000, in which al-Qaida operatives used a small boat filled with explosives to kill 17 U.S. sailors
JOHN F. WILLIAMS/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
The success of the swarm boat demonstration has significant operational and ethical implications for the Navy. and injure 39 others off the coast of Yemen. “If we had … this capability there on that day, I’m sure we would have saved that ship,” he said. “We don’t want to see that ever happen again.” Navy officials and outside experts see the CARACaS technology being used for a variety of military and civilian tasks, including minesweeping, anti-submarine warfare, supporting special operations and port security. “Swarm can be thought of as just one example of a behavior of this team of unmanned surface vehicles. The important point is CARACaS is flexible enough that we can use it to accomplish a number of different behaviors,” Brizzolara said. “Swarm is just one example of a behavior.” Unmanned systems also have budgetary implications. At a time when the Pentagon is facing fiscal constraints and ballooning personnel costs, reducing manpower requirements through the use of new technology could free up money to be used elsewhere. “When you think of what a sailor costs … for a variety of tasks it
might make more sense to invest in autonomous systems,” Brannen said. The CARACaS technology could move beyond the surface fleet as the Navy contemplates an emerging operational concept: multidomain robotic warfare. In the future, Klunder said, the Navy will have unmanned surface ships, submarines and aircraft patrolling the seas. Experts said the next step is to link them up. “The next generation of this is … you blend together different unmanned systems so it’s not your unmanned surface vessels acting cooperatively, but it’s them acting cooperatively with a larger family of unmanned systems,” according to Peter Singer, a technology expert and futurist at the New America Foundation. Swarm boats, which can be armed, illustrate a ethical dilemma that has emerged with advances in autonomous systems: Should they be allowed to decide when to pull the trigger and kill people? “We still believe that there should be a human that makes that decision,” Klunder said. Some experts say views on that
subject could change. If technology advances at the rate it has been, “it’s going to be more and more tempting to think about scenarios” in which it would be advantageous to take unmanned systems off the leash, Brannen said. Despite the advances, Singer believes powerful elements in the Navy may spoil the hopes of those who see a brave new world for unmanned systems in coming years. “The choppy waters ahead are more organizational, bureaucratic, cultural, essentially people questions than they are technologic questions,” he said. He believes there are “tribes” and bureaucratic interests in the service who haven’t fully embraced unmanned technology and are still wedded to manned systems that don’t have as much potential. Recent Navy budgets reveal that autonomous systems aren’t as much of a priority as they should be, according to Singer. “The real key is do they make it past the valley of death” when programmatic decisions are made, he said. harper.jon@stripes.com Twitter: @JHarperStripes
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General Howe’s first major battles against his American counterpart, General George Washington, included the Battle of Bunker Hill. The famous phrase, do not shoot until you see the white of their eyes, was in reference to the Bunker Hill battle. The Colonials did not have the ammunition they needed to properly defend their position, so it was critical they did not waste ammunition. The British Army made three assaults on the Colonial position, the third assault succeeded largely because the Colonials were retreating due to their lack of ammunition. As it happens some Colonials had defied orders and set up defenses on Breeds Hill instead of Bunker Hill as ordered. Breeds Hill did give the Colonials a better position to fire on British forces coming ashore, but it left them too far from their only point of retreat, the Charlestown Neck, to be able to defend it properly. If the British army had been more aggressive, they could have taken Charlestown Neck, the only escape for the Colonials. Securing that would have led to the capture of
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attitude hardened, perhaps best reflected by Sir James Adolphus Oughton, who wrote “the sooner they (colonies) are made to Taste Distress the sooner will (Crown control) be produced.” The hardening of the British position led in the Colonies to an increase in support for the rebellion, the cause of independence gained important backing that would see it through the challenging years ahead. Images courtesy of Wikipedia Commons For more check out Wikipedia: The Battle of Bunker Hill
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Iraq-Syria war likely to avoid budget cuts BY TRAVIS J. TRITTEN Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has been issuing dire warnings that the military is fast approaching a severe money crunch — a problem compounded now by the war in Iraq and Syria. With mandatory defense cuts looming next year and new war costs mounting, Congress will almost certainly reach for an ANALYSIS old standby accounting solution to keep money flowing — the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, a so-called war credit card. The OCO account, separate from the base defense budget and exempt from spending reductions set to remain in place until 2021, allows the military to respond quickly to unforeseen crises. It also allows Congress to sidestep tough budget decisions such as trimming troop benefits and eliminating weapons systems the military says it no longer needs while paying for a war that the Obama administration says could last years. Critics say relying on the fund also enables the Pentagon to avoid the rigid cost controls and spending reductions that were the goal when Congress agreed to mandatory spending caps to reduce the growing federal debt. “There is currently no limit on OCO, so there is as much room as they need,” said Todd Harrison, a defense budget senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington. Spurred on by budget cuts, the military has proposed freezing troop pay raises at 1 percent, slashing commissary benefits, overhauling Tricare health care coverage and retiring hardware such as the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft and the USS George Washington aircraft carrier. The CSBA recently esti-
mated the military could soon face $300 billion in mandatory cuts. Meanwhile, war costs are quickly mounting since bombing began in August. The Pentagon says it is spending up to $7 million to $10 million per day on an air offensive against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria that is likely to be long and difficult. Lawmakers also authorized the Obama administration to begin training and arming Syrian rebels into a proxy ground army, which will take years and could eventually cost over $1 billion. Analysts estimate the annual cost of the war could range between $2.4 billion and $18 billion. Congress will almost certainly pay that bill using the OCO account, said Gordon Adams, an analyst with the Stimson Center and a professor at American University. “It is like a drug. It is the magic feel-good for anybody’s budgetary needs,” he said. Lawmakers must hash out a new defense spending plan by Dec. 11, when the stopgap spending measure they passed just before leaving Washington for midterm elections expires. The White House has already requested $65.8 billion in OCO funds for the coming year. “If they don’t come back sometime after the election and bump that [OCO budget] up $10 (billion) to $15 billion, I will be shocked,” Adams said. That means Congress will not have to shoehorn the cost of the war into the base budget. It has so far rejected many of the cost-cutting measures suggested by the Pentagon, which military leaders say are necessary to keep the services ready to protect the country but often mean painful hits to lawmakers’ home districts. The Air Force put the A-10 aircraft — beloved by infantry troops — on the chopping block but it was protected in
the House by Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., whose district includes Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, which has the highest concentration of the aircraft in the world. Barber is locked in a tight midterm race with a retired A-10 pilot. The OCO has been criticized for years as a kind of budget credit card and a slush fund for wasteful spending. There was a move among some lawmakers and advocacy groups to have it abolished earlier this year, but that move gained little traction. “I think the biggest negative long-term consequence is it completely eliminates budget discipline and planning in the Pentagon,” Adams said. He said supplemental wartime spending over the past decade has contributed to a bloated military bureaucracy where civilian jobs outnumber uniformed positions. While Congress is likely to sidestep difficult budget decisions, Adams said, serious Pentagon reform and cost-cutting will also be derailed if OCO spending increases for the war. “If you don’t do it (reform) now, wait to see the disaster you have when this war is over,” he said. Jim Hasik, a defense analyst with the Atlantic Council, called the OCO fund an “accounting workaround” used to avoid the mandatory budget caps imposed by Congress and said it has potential drawbacks. But he said overall it makes good sense to separate defense accounts that have different goals. The base Pentagon budget is aimed at long-term military preparedness and daily operations, while the OCO pot can provide the spending flexibility needed to deal with sudden and unforeseen threats. That flexibility can prove critical to the fight and protecting troops. When improvised explosives became a top threat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. spent $50 billion
to field 24,000 mine-resistant vehicles that could survive the blasts and protect occupants. With the threat receding, those mine-resistant trucks and other vehicles may cost the government $100 million to ship back from Afghanistan, according to a Government Accountability Office report. Many of the trucks should simply have been destroyed or given away because upkeep is not economical, auditors said. “There is absolutely potential for more overspending any time you use a supplemental account, sure. In a sense, that is actually part of the plan,” Hasik said. “You worry less
about checking up on the waste and abuse and you just worry about getting it done fast.” For now, the top concern is whether the Obama administration has a strategy that will ultimately win the war against the Islamic State group and not whether more reliance on the OCO account will cause problems, Hasik said. “I’m not worried that the door is open (to irresponsible spending) because somebody is talking about using supplemental funding,” he said. “I’m worried that there is no logical end game.” tritten.travis@stripes.com Twitter: @Travis_Tritten
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U.S. European Command has directed its Army, Navy and Air Force components to consider limiting where and when their members can wear military uniforms off Defense Department installations in Europe to ensure the safety and security of personnel and their families. The command did not cite any specific threats against U.S. servicemembers or their families overseas, though the terrorist group Islamic State, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria, has called for “lone wolf” attacks against Americans and Europeans. In a statement, EUCOM Navy Capt. Greg Hicks said the command continually assesses threats to its forces and takes “appropriate measures based on those assessments.” “We will not get into the spe-
cifics of those threats nor the assessments,” Hicks said. The component commands declined to share details of uniform restrictions being put in place at various posts. However, the Army garrison at Baumholder, part of the larger U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, posted new rules on its Facebook page Thursday telling soldiers not to wear uniforms in “off-post commercial areas such as shopping malls, theaters and other high population venues,” such as festivals or pedestrian zones. The rules, which apply to the entire Rheinland-Pfalz garrison, allow soldiers to be in uniform off base for some nonessential or convenience-related stops, but warn personnel to “remain vigilant of their surroundings at all times and make sound judgments regarding the time and location of uniform wear.”
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A memorial of their own Roses sit in a star-shaped fountain, from which a perpetual flame burns, at the new American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, dedicated in Washington on Sunday. The memorial includes a black granite reflecting pool, glass panels with quotes from wounded veterans and photos. Each of the star’s points represents a branch of the military.
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MANAMA, Bahrain — The Bataan amphibious ready group is heading home after an eventful, eight-month deployment to the region. Navy officials said Oct. 3 that the Norfolk, Va.-based ready group — comprising the USS Bataan, the USS Mesa Verde, the USS Gunston Hall and the embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit — has left the 5th Fleet area of responsibility, where its air combat element had been conducting strike missions against the Islamic State in Iraq, and flying intelligencegathering missions over Iraq and Syria. The group has been replaced in the Middle East by the San Diego, Calif.-based Makin Island amphibious ready group after a 21-day extension in the region. On its way home, the Bataan group is expected to participate in international exercises and to make routine port visits aimed at strengthening relationships with partner nations, the Navy said in a news release. Navy officials expect the ships to arrive home in late October. The more than 4,000 sailors
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The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, flagship for the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, and the guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt transit the Persian Gulf on Sept. 22. and Marines who are part of the Bataan group left home Feb. 8 on a regularly scheduled, eight-month deployment. Much of the group’s time has been spent in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea, where it has been poised for potential crisis response. In May, days into the Bataan’s participation in a largescale, annual, multinational exercise in Jordan, it was ordered to the coast of Libya to be ready for a possible evacuation of U.S. personnel because of escalating fighting there. In June, as fighters with the Islamic State, which seeks to create a caliphate across swaths of Syria and Iraq,
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threatened Baghdad, some of the group’s assets were ordered into the Persian Gulf. Additionally, the Bataan ready group completed two rescues at sea and a number of support operations, officials said. The Bataan set a near record with a 135-day stretch at sea between port visits. An amphibious ready group’s diversified assets give the U.S. military crisisresponse capabilities that can be tailored for a wide range of situations, from disaster relief to combat. For this reason, the group is often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of the joint forces. simoes.hendrick@stripes.com Twitter: @hendricksimoes
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athleen Rodgers re-released as a paperback, won her first writing and her second novel, “Johnaward for feature nie Come Lately,” is due out in stories about UFOs February. for her high school newspaper Both her books have miliin Clovis, N.M. Now she laughs tary themes, and Rodgers said about that and the stories she she often uses pieces of her wrote about Bigfoot. After life, even when writing fiction. high school, she interned at a “I take everything I’ve ever local paper while taking night lived, plus my imagination,” classes. By then, she was being she said. “I stir it in a big pot stalked by another monster and out comes a gumbo.” — one that was very real — an Rodgers and her husband, now eating disorder called bulimia. retired, live in Texas. Their “But that was a secret,” said sons are grown — one an artRodgers, and a mystery even ist, the other a soldier. she didn’t understand. ConJohnnie Kitchen, the heroquering the eating disorder ine of “Johnnie Come Lately,” took several years and wise also lives in Texas and has a counsel from a good doctor, son who’s an artist and a son who helped her discover the who’s a soldier. Also like her roots of her behavior. Until creator, she has fought — and then, she didn’t know it had a won — a battle with bulimia. name, that it wasn’t about food It’s the first time Rodgers has and that she wasn’t alone. explored After learning that hurt SPOUSE CALLS the subject and anger from her childhood through were at the heart of her illfiction, and ness, Rodgers was determined she said not to let her past dictate her she didn’t future. By then she was marknow when ried to Tom Rodgers, an Air she began Force pilot, and still dreamed writing of a writing career. Johnnie’s The death of her brother life to mirand the birth of her first child ror hers to solidified Rodthat extent. Terri Barnes gers’ resolve “It was an to be healthy. Join the conversation with Terri at evolution,” Soon she and stripes.com/go/spousecalls she said. “I Tom had two wanted to sons, and write about Kathleen’s growing career as someone who has struggled a freelance writer allowed her with something, like an adto work at home. diction, and comes out on the In her 30s, recovered, satisother side and will never go fied with family life and her back, yet is aware of potential writing successes, Rodgers triggers for that behavior,” she knew there was still a story said. she needed to write. Reflecting on that dark “I wrote about a lot of chapter of her life is difficult, things,” she said, “but I but Rodgers writes with a purrealized I was writing around pose. When the initial magathe bulimia, and I’ve always zine article about bulimia was prided myself in writing the about to be published, she truth, emotional truth.” said she got “cold feet” about Rodgers had written a exposing her personal story to couple of stories for Family the world. Circle magazine, as a military “I went to my church and wife writing about military asked my ministers to pray subjects. She decided to apwith me,” she said. “I’ll never proach her editor there about forget what the associate minwriting a first-person story ister said. She said, ‘Rememabout bulimia. The editor reber, you are stepping out in sponded positively to her query faith, and your story is going and published Rodgers’ story, to give people hope.’ ” “Dying to be Thin,” in 1994. “That’s what I’m trying to She’s written many more do with Johnnie, too,” she said. stories since then, including An adapted version of two books. Her first novel, “Dying to be Thin” is avail“The Final Salute,” first able at herwarhervoice.com. published in 2009, was just Search for “Rodgers.”
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