FORT LIBERTY, N.C. – A retired U.S. Army colonel led a task force that safely removed more than 550 metric tons of Iraqi uranium in 2008. Retired Col. Barrett “Barry” F. Lowe was chosen to ...

R ANDY GEORGE joined the US Army in 1988. It had overhauled itself after the trauma of Vietnam.It had written a new doctrine, known as AirLand Battle, to defeat the Soviet Union in a war in Europe.

When he died at 28 he was probably the youngest man in the U.S. Army to wear a colonel’s eagles. He went from the ranks to become a flying cadet, got his commission and his pilot’s wings in 1939.