They are here to keep the peace, a mission that about 2,700 Fort Carson soldiers will shoulder in March. This area in eastern Bosnia saw some of the worst butchery of the four-year war, much of it committed by Serbs against Muslims. As tempting as it may be, the soldiers' job is not to decide who was right and who was wrong. Chuck Sexton, assistant commander at Dobol. Everyone did bad things in the war.
Evil is evil.
A half-dozen soldiers are ready to roll down to Srebrenica. Sargent Binkley chats with a barber shop owner in the town of Bratunac, on the Serb side of the zone of separation, during a presence patrol. To maintain its low casualty rate, the Army follows strict rules. All the Humvees are outfitted in about 5,000 pounds of armor. And all the soldiers carry loaded M-16 rifles, except the officers, who carry loaded pistols.