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the setting: to capitalize on any bit of notoriety to lure visitors to the area, had incorporated the prison angle into its promotional brochures with the phrase “Doin’ time in Leavenworth.” Federal dollars rolled through this part of Kansas and jumped the border into Missouri like a flood of green paper locusts, boosting the local economy and filling the coffers of businesses that provided the soldiers with smoked ribs, cold beer, fast cars, cheap hookers, and pretty much everything in between. JOHN PULLER HAD his M11 pistol pointed at the man’s head. A fancied-up Beretta 92—known in the military as an M9A1—was pointed right back at him. It was a twenty-first-century duel that promised no winners and portended two fatal losers. He had his weapons, because if he didn’t have his weapons then he must be dead and someone had forgotten to tell him.