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  • 8/12/2019 Asbury Park Press front page June 16

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    Team USA meetsGhana in its rst

    match today.

    SPORTS, D1

    2014 WORLD CUP

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    UP

    U.S. FACESFIRST TEST

    An M1A1Abrams tank in Iraq.PHOTO COURTESY AGIFA CONSTABLE

    For tankers, their Abrams is their home. In Baghdad,they live in the heat, sleeping on the tank on top of un-rolled sleeping bags in the heart of the city. They soakthemselves in bug spray nightly. When it rains, theysleep in the tank, arranging themselves as comfortablyas they can. Because of insurgent attacks, suppliesdwindle. At one point, the four-man crew of Bandit 44lives on only two bottles of water and two MREs, mealsready-to-eat, a day.

    In the tank, sweat drenches their clothes and soaks

    their boots. The stale odor of the other men pervadesthe tank. So does the dank smell of fuel and hydraulicfluid.

    Outside on this day, it is 110 degrees. Behind the ar-mored walls, temperatures soar higher, sometimes by20 degrees.

    It makes them wish they could shed their protectiveclothing. That includes their Vietnam-era fragmenta-tion vests better body armor will come later in thewar and balaclavas. Flame-resistant Nomex fibergloves protect Lightner and Constables hands frompossible burns from the blow-back of propellant firedfrom the tanks 120 mm gun.

    Ordinarily the intense heat brings fatigue and dis-traction.

    Not now.An adrenaline rush triggers intense focus and a hun-

    Second in a series

    Friendly convoy ambushed by a large number of enemy. One KIA and

    three casualties. Within weeks of crossing into the war zone of Bagh-

    dad in May 2003, Army Spc. Agifa Constable and Sgt. Bobby Lightner hear that tense

    call through the tangle of radio traffic. About nine miles away from their M1A1

    Abrams tanks position south of the city, they hear, enemy fighters have just killed a

    platoon leader and left three American troops wounded, using an IED and small-arms

    fire. The call sends Constable and Lightner, and their code-named Bandit 44 tank,

    into combat for the first time.

    By Ken Serrano @KenSerranoAPP

    SeeIRAQ, Page A5

    After several months, signs of PTSD emerge;Constable credited with saving fellow soldier

    CHAPTER 3

    INTO IRAQ

    Visit veterans.app.com to read prior chap-ters, other stories, view videos and see aninteractive graphic about PTSD.

    About this series

    The Asbury Park Press this week examinesthe emotional and physical toll the decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan havetaken on veterans.

    Army Spc. Agifa Constable in Iraq around 2003. He was in combat there for 17 months. PHOTO COURTESY OF AGIFA CONSTABLE

    RETURNING HOME: LIVING WITH PTSD

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    MONDAY 06.16.14

    VOLUME 135

    NUMBER 143

    SINCE 1879

    ADVICE C6

    BUSINESS A8

    CLASSIFIED D6

    COMICS C7

    LOCAL A3

    LOTTERIES A2

    OBITUARIES A9

    OPINION A11

    SPORTS D1

    WEATHER D14

    USA TODAY A LOOK AT THE HEROIN SMUGGLING PATHS USED BY MEXICAN CARTELS. PAGE 1B

    a 7.5 acre parcel will submit their summationsWednesday and zoning board professionals are expect-ed to comment, Gertner said.

    Rabbi Ephraim Birnbaum is seeking a variancefrom the zoning board to build the school in a residen-tial area of mostly one-acre lots, where schools are not

    JACKSONDuring the last eight months, thousandsof residents have attended four public hearings aboutwhether an Orthodox Jewish high school in Lakewoodcan build a new facility in a residential area of the town-ship.

    On Wednesday, a decision finally could come.

    The township zoning board is likely to decideWednesday on the proposal to build an all-girls Ortho-dox high school on Cross Street, said Sean Gertner, at-torney for the board.

    I fully expect a determination to made on Wednes-day barring unforeseen circumstances, he said.

    Attorneys arguing over the proposal to constructOros Bais Yaakov a two-story, 400-student school on

    Ruling expected Wednesday on Orthodox high school in JacksonBy Brett Bodner @brettbodner

    SeeJACKSON, Page A4

    NBA FINALS 2014

    SPURS PUT AN END TO HEATS REIGN

    Led by MVP Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio beats

    Miami,104-87, at home to win its fifth NBA

    championship, 4 games to 1.

    Sports, D1

    MIDDLETOWNTrinity Hall will appeal the planningboards denial of its plans to build a campus for its all-girls private high school on Chapel Hill Road.

    Officials from the school announced Friday that

    they intend to appeal the denial, which came earlyThursday morning after a six-hour hearing Wednesdaynight. The board voted 6-3 to deny the application.

    As a Middletown resident and Trinity Hall board oftrustees member, I am disappointed in the decision ofthe Middletown Planning Board, which seems arbi-trary and contrary to township ordinance, Donna Win-chell said in a prepared release. The school is commit-ted to being a good neighbor and has given back to thecommunity through almost 500 hours of communityservice in just nine months.

    In a release, school trustees said they are confidentin the merits of their case and anticipate this decisionwill be reversed. The trustees said the board directedthe application be submitted without variances fromthe zoning ordinance and that Trinity Hall accepts rea-sonable additional conditions or amendments, which

    Girls school

    wont abandonbid to expandMiddletown planners reject

    Trinity Halls building proposal

    By Larry Higgs @APPLarry

    See EXPAND,Page A4