For the Record

Troops: An article in Monday's Section A about overweight troops in Iraq incorrectly assigned sailor Emmitt Hawks the rank of specialist. Hawks is a mass communications specialist with the rank of petty officer first class. The article also described Hawks as saying that he couldn't blame a friend of his who holed up with some junk food after seeing the trailer next to his hit by a mortar shell, killing the soldier inside. No soldier was killed in that explosion.