ASSIGNMENT - BATTLE COMPANY IS OUT THERE

1. Does the writer hold your attention through a long article? If she does, how did she do it? If not, why?

No. It’s too long that I don’t understand it much. Not suitable for readers who can’t stand reading very long articles, like myself.

2. Quote the most vivid and vigorous sentences in this feature.

Kearney kept his soldiers on a tight leash at first. Col. John Nicholson, a brigade commander with the 10th Mountain Division, had promised the Afghans he would not bomb their homes. When Kearney and the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team officially took over from the division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team on June 5, they kept that promise. “My guys would tell me they didn’t know which houses they’re shooting from, and I’d tell them they can’t shoot back into the villages,”

“They hated me.” The insurgents were testing the new captain, he suspected, by deliberately shooting from homes.

The soldiers don’t hesitate to call in Big Daddy (who, in today’s military, often flies in with the voice of a female pilot). But while these flying war machines are saviors to the soldiers, they cannot distinguish between insurgents and civilians.

3. Write this feature as straight news, 100 words maximum.

Note: To be quite frank, I really don’t know much about this article…