Word: ak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rangers drifted toward the airstrip in their chutes, the Cubans met them with AK-47 automatic-rifle fire. Armored personnel carriers, filled with either Cuban troops or ammunition, suddenly appeared within 400 yds. of the Ranger landing sites. They aimed mortars at the invaders' positions. The Rangers took cover and returned small-arms fire. U.S. gunships protectively sprayed the resisting forces. "They were waiting for us," recalled First Lieut. Michael Menu, who was wounded in the initial attack. "We could hear the shooting and the bombs, but we could not see anything," said Sergeant Terry Guinn, who lay wounded...
...soldiers were battering the kitchen door with gun butts. The students fled to a bathroom, then feared that if they surprised the intruders by being there, they might be shot. Doyle took off his U.S.A.-emblazoned T shirt, walked into the kitchen and found himself facing 30 soldiers carrying AK-47 rifles and dressed in battle fatigues. The soldiers set up portable radios and turned the house into a small battle center. After three hours of captivity, the students were released without harm. Said Doyle about the soldiers: "I asked them to please lock up when they left." (He later...
...first surprise awaited us as we stepped onto the shore to be met by a military Jeep. The soldiers were not, as the radio had promised, U.S. Marines, but Grenadians, wearing East German helmets and carrying AK-47s. Overhead the calm was shattered by deafening shooting and rocketing from U.S. helicopters as we quickly scrambled ashore. It was only noon Tuesday, the week had barely begun, and Big Alfred was already headed back to the open...
Other Marines spoke of their frustrated desire for revenge. "I think we ought to start shooting first," said one. Pointing across to the nearby slum Hayes Sullum, the source of sniper fire that had killed two Marines a fortnight earlier, he added, "You see guys running around there with AK-47 rifles and grenades. We should hit them." Yet others realized that punishment should be meted out only to those directly responsible for the attacks and that finding them would be impossible. "We just want to hit back, but hit back at whom?" asked another Marine...
...army and the Shi'ite Amal militia. When the army moved into Amal strongholds in Beirut's southern suburbs, masked gunmen representing several Muslim factions took control of their neighborhoods in West Beirut, sending civilians scurrying to the safety of their homes. Armed with rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47 assault rifles and light mortars, they attacked Lebanese army guardposts, barracks and convoys. In response, the Lebanese army dispatched 10,000 troops, backed up by tanks and armored personnel carriers, to regain control of the city. Supported by tank rounds and heavy machine-gun fire, infantrymen crept up alleys...