1.   Exhausted soldiers, their uniforms drenched and their boots caked with the red mud, lay on top of army packs along the wall.

2.   For two days the streets had been overwhelmed by exhausted soldiers, many manning checkpoints or crowding by the dozen into pickup trucks and roaming the roads.

3.   That allowed the Army helicopters to return and evacuate the exhausted soldiers.

4.   A group of tired Chechen fighters sat under a tree Thursday, slumped over their weapons and ignoring a squad of equally exhausted Russian soldiers further down the road.

5.   An exhausted former soldier completed a feat he said was a first when he reached the western coast of Ireland Wednesday after kayaking across the Atlantic Ocean.

6.   Exhausted Rwandan soldiers inspected tons of ammunition, guns and an anti-aircraft battery the Ugandans had left behind.