The parents rode in buses for the eighty-mile journey to Maiduguri, the state capital, with staff members from the school, some girls who had escaped the kidnappers, and armed vigilantes serving as guards.
One of General Miller's recommendations was that the American military police, serving as guards at Abu Ghraib, become "actively engaged in setting the conditions for successful exploitation of internees," according to an internal investigation by an Army major general.
The document says the investigation into the two deaths "is continuing with recent re-interviews," both of military intelligence personnel from Fort Bragg and of Army Reserve military police officers from Ohio and surrounding states, who were serving as guards at the facility.
The year of service could take the form of soldiering at frontier garrisons protecting the borders against nomadic enemies, serving as guards in the courts of kings or as guards under the Minister of the Guards in the capital.
Shamefully, clergy members took a voracious dive into the bloodbath, serving as guards, commanders and executioners at the 40 camps, most famously Jasenovac, the Holocaust's third-largest yet least spoken-of camp.
PTSD remains a prevalent problem for men and women returning home from war zones around the world, but it can also affect US troops serving as guards and medics in highly dangerous situations including those deployed to Guantánamo Bay.
During the census proceedings, a collection of citizens, among them military men serving as guards, are taking part in a religious rite, the suovetaurilia (from sus [pig], ovis [ram], taurus [bull]): a ceremony during which livestock were sacrificed to the gods.
He got three Rottweilers to serve as guard dogs.
The clear implication was that the dogs were to serve as guard dogs for Mr. bin Laden.
On 3 November 1914, she transferred to the Humber to serve as guard ship there.
