The corporal said he served in Iraq last year, guarding supply lines and training Iraqi police officers.
Meanwhile, many soldiers were behind the lines, guarding supply lines from rear-guard attacks and bushwhacking guerrillas.
After a stint in the Marines guarding supply lines in China at the end of World War II, he went to the University of Chicago.
They had spent a relatively quiet weekend at a crossroads near Shumali, guarding supply lines, but joked today that, it being Monday, they were going to work.
Their assignment would be short term and aimed at guarding supply routes for aid shipments, securing airfields, clearing ordnance and ensuring the safety of returning United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations.
With thousands of private security employees now guarding supply lines, buildings and reconstruction projects -- and with thousands more on the way -- they are increasingly being drawn into firefights and other combat situations that traditionally have been left to the military.
The 4th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Mounted Division was deployed guarding supply columns, and prisoners, before being ordered to attack and capture Samakh on the shore of the Sea of Gallilee.
Privately, however, another Spanish antiterrorism official said Goma 2, a gelatinous, nitroglycerin-based explosive that is typically used in mining, has been linked to ETA only rarely since the Spanish authorities began to tightly guard supplies of it in the 1980's.
At schools, teachers were called in to guard supplies and equipment.
Units were diverted from combat to guard supply trains, which were being hijacked all over liberated Europe.
