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Wahlmeir sat in the armory near the Great Bend airport with two of his fellow soldiers, Staff Sgt. Joseph Shuey of Great Bend and Sgt. Michael Potter from Hoisington.
All three are preparing for their third trip abroad with the Guard. Peacekeeping missions in Bosnia in 1996 and Kosovo in 2000 have prepared them for the work they will do when they arrive in Iraq in a few months.
The orders are for 545 days of duty — more than 15 months away from their families, twice as long as each of their previous missions.
Although they are experienced soldiers, it's not any easier to leave their families the third time around.
"I'm getting more used to him
preparing to go," said Darla Shuey, Joseph's wife. "But emotionally, it never gets easier."
Their unit — Battery E (Target Acquisition), 161st Field Artillery — uses radar to track enemy fire.
In the past, the unit's soldiers have tracked snipers and mortar fire. Once they identify the source of the shooting, other troops attempt to take out those sites. They will do the same in Iraq.
Because the soldiers wear a patch that looks like cross hairs on their left shoulders, some of the Kosovars thought they were snipers.
Shuey and Potter will work in the back of a Humvee, in a contraction that "looks like a camper shell on the back of a pickup." Potter said.
"That's the only way I know how to describe it," he said.
They'll be in relative comfort at work. Wahlmeier will work in a large, air-conditioned building. The Humwee will be air-conditioned as well. Shuey said.
"It's really more for the electronics than for us," Shuey said. "It won't be too bad, though."
The battery is a mixed group, with new soldiers who have never been deployed. Others have been to the Persian Gulf before; others are like these
three men and have been deployed but not to that area.
"We all try to help each other out," Shuey said. "Our experience with what we've done before helps us to know how to protect ourselves better. We pass that along in our training."
Darla Shuey is in charge of the "family readiness" regiment. She and other family members stick together during deployments.
The families at home operate under the same strategy, the soldiers said.
Training sessions are available to help wives get used to paying bills or keeping a budget, especially if those were tasks delegated to their husbands.
A teddy bear signed by each soldier will be the mascot, proudly displayed at each function.
"I've made lots of friends here," she said. "We do a lot together. And there are some wives who have never gone through this, so those of us who have will help them out."
Special events at the armory will provide opportunities for fellowship and support.
"If something happened to me, my wife could run the house," Shuey said. "If something happened to her, I'd have to hire someone to help me."
Moments later police walked up the hill with a second suspect, Phillips and Taylor said, a blonde-haired woman who was about 5-foot-7 wearing a white tank top and pajama pants. Bailey said there were no injuries during the entire incident, but several witnesses said the woman was favoring one leg and grimacing in pain as she walked up the hill.
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Bailey said the woman was not present when the KU student was robbed. The male suspect picked the woman up sometime between the gunshot and when police spotted the victim's car on Sixth and Iowa streets, Bailey said.
Before the chase started, the victim called her mother, a Lawrence resident.
HOLDUP: No injuries reported Car recovered at 12th and Indiana
The victim did not tell her mother that she was threatened with a gun.
Though shocked and scared, the victim's mother said she was relieved because the situation could have been a lot worse.
The victim's roommate was leaving the GSP-Corbin parking
lot when the victim called her, saying she had been held at gunpoint and had her car stolen.
"She was bawling, and I just ran over here," the victim's roommate said. "We've been best friends since we were 4 years old."
There are no security cameras in the area where the victim's car was stolen, Bailey said. Cameras have been proposed in the past for parking garage serving GSP-Corbin, a dimly lit multi-level garage near the residence halls.
Bailey said the process of installing cameras was under way before the incident.
"It's scary because we park our car there all the time," said Brittani Hall, Dallas freshman and GSP-Corbin resident.
Hall and a friend, Sonya Hargin, Mound City, Mo., freshman, were coming back to GSP-Corbin after getting ice cream when they heard a loud noise. They later found out it was a gunshot.
Hall and Hargin eventually made their way up to the picnic benches in front of Yello Sub, where several onlookers milled about as police secured the area around 12th Street.
— Edited by Janette Crawford
HISTORY: Director worked with Reagan, Dole
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Q: What was former President Ronald Reagan like?
where you have 80 or 90 percent of the voters participating, but it needs to improve.
A: He struck me as being somebody who was very down-to-earth, very amiable and easy to get along with. He struck me as somebody who had a clear agenda of what he believed, but who was genuinely interested in hearing what students had to say about issues, too. In other words, how would I say, clearly conservative but a very open-minded person and very approachable. And I found that to be true in all my dealings with him.
Editor's Note: Lacy first met President Reagan at Vanderbilt in 1975 at a dinner with students and faculty. Reagan had been invited to speak at the University.
Q: What is your fondest memory of President Reagan?
A: One of my fondest memories actually is in 1988 when, during the presidential campaign, which I was running in California for then Vice President Bush, President Reagan agreed to come in and campaign at the very end, the day before the election. And I got to meet up with him and fly on Air Force One. And that was
his last day that he ever campaigned for anybody as President. And that was really neat to be there and be part of that and everything. You kind of had the feeling of being a part of history.
Q: What was working for former Senator Bob Dole like?
A: Bob Dole is somebody who I've always respected enormously for his service to the country and enjoyed being around. Dole has a kind of running joke that everybody who has ever worked for Bob Dole is part of Dole, Inc. or Dole Incorporated. People identify with that and they're very proud of that fact that they worked with him. The guy clearly is an American hero.
Q: Do you have any memories that
Q: Do you have any memories that stand out to you about Dole?
A He had a very strong sense of what was the right thing to do the commitment to do it regardless of the political consequences. Back here in '95 when President Clinton wanted to send troops to Bosnia, Sen. Dole sat down with a group of us who were involved in his campaign to kind of give us a chance to air our views. Now I basically said to him, "Senator, you understand what the polls say. The polls say that the American people are not interested in sending troops to Bosnia and you need to understand that there's going to be a political fallout and a
political cost if you choose to support the president." And he made it very clear that he fully intended to support the President. That he felt the President was the Commander In Chief and it was his responsibility to do so. And that it wasn't a political issue and that his election campaign was not the issue here; it was the issue of what was the right policy for the country. And, you know, I always admired that.
what were some of the perks of working in the White House?
A: Air Force One is neat. They've changed Air Force One since President Reagan. Air Force One was a 707 and is now a 747. I have not been on the New Air Force One, which is really quite a bit bigger than the old one. But that was neat because you had little cards laying out on the seat that you were supposed to sit down in. You had an assigned seat, but you didn't have a boarding pass or anything like that. You just had a little card that showed where you sat. And then they had little boxes of M&Ms with the presidential seal on them that you could munch on.
The other perk that was nice was the Executive Mess. That was where you could eat any of your meals. You could carry-out at dinner if you wanted to. That was really neat because you
could do breakfast and lunch there and that was right in the West Wing of the White House, which was very accessible from my office, in the Old Executive Office building which is literally just right across the street and inside the White House security compound. But that was nice because you could always go there and get a good breakfast or get a good lunch and you wouldn't actually have to leave the facility.
There was one day during the Reagan years that was really great. I forget which day it was, but it was "Mexican Day." They'd serve Mexican food that day and people would always go there and eat. And of course, everybody wants to eat in the White House, so anybody you wanted to have lunch with, you'd invite them and they come. They show up because they want to do that and that was a neat perk.
Q: What advice would you give President George W. Bush for the 2004 presidential campaign?
A: I think I would tell the President, if I were advising him, to be very focused and prepared on the debates. He tends to do very well in the debates because he tends to exceed his expectations. I would tell him that he should do that and otherwise. I think that there are some positive signs of what's going on right now for his campaign and it will be interesting to see how
that turns out
Q: What advice would you give Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry?
A: Try to come up with a creative theme to really utilize in some of the debates against the President. Try to take advantage of the debates, to stake out what are the key distinctions in policy and to use between he and the President during this campaign. Try to take advantage of that forum to delineate what he feels are his strongest issues and to do that probably with Iraq and to do that with the economy. And to do that in stark terms, showing his differences from the President.
that turns out.
Right now the President is enjoying an advantage because people feel that he's there and he's better qualified to deal with problems that, generally speaking, face us on a foreign level. It's very, very late in the process to actually make a difference. Debates typically don't decide the outcome of an election, but they can and they have. I think if I were in Bush's shoes, I would want to be prepared for the debates, get through them exceeding my expectations and pretty much stay on his current message. And if I were Sen. Kerry, I would want to use the debates to try to shake up the campaign and get people to take a different look at him.
Student's car stolen with someone inside
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The male took off on foot after the Yukon stopped on Alumni Place, about a block away. Lawrence Police do not have any suspects in the case, Ward said. Neither the KU student nor her boyfriend sustained any injuries, and the vehicle was not damaged.
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Lawrence Police arrested three adults and two minors Sunday night in connection to two Pizza Shuttle robberies, Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department said. The incident is being investigated further and Ward said more charges and possibly more arrests will be made. A male Pizza Shuttle employee was approached by several individuals Sunday night as he was delivering a pizza in the 3800 block of Shady Brooke Lane. He was beaten and the suspects took the pizza and his cell phone, Ward said.
LAWRENCE Delivery driver robbed but suspects arrested
Police traced the number the individuals used to order the pizza. The number came from Hy-Vee. 3504 Clinton Parkway.
Police were called back to Hy-Vee around 4 p.m. when the suspects were spotted at the store. One of the individuals resisted arrest and an officer had to use chemical spray to subdue him, Ward said. The officer sustained scrapes on his elbow and on his head.
Nikalaus Moore, 22; Cyrus Mueller, 19; and Phillip Richardson, 18, as well as two minors, are in custody. The suspects are being questioned about the theft Sunday night as well as a similar incident that happened last week with another Pizza Shuttle employee, Ward said.
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The Yukon's security system, however, only allowed the car to travel a short distance before it shut down. A driver must enter a code to disable the security system.
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A 19-year-old female University of Kansas student reported a theft and kidnapping to the Lawrence Police Department Thursday night in the 1400 block of Ohio, Sgt. Dan Ward said. The student and her boyfriend, a 22-year-old Avila College student, were traveling on Ohio Street when more than one person slapped the rear-view mirror and the body of the vehicle, a 1996 Yukon.
The student's boyfriend stopped the vehicle and got out of the car to assess if there had been any damage. A brown-haired male in his 20s then got into the vehicle with the KU student still in it and drove off.
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