Fear at the Front (article)

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All soldiers are brave in the face of battle?until the battle breaks out. The war of nerves, and how the troops preparing for conflict with Iraq are coping with it.

?I want to go to combat,? says Sgt. Mathew Figley of the Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division, as he slouches in the back of his Bradley Fighting Vehicle in the desert wastes of northern Kuwait, a few miles from the Iraqi border. Figley may get his wish.