Word: ammo
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...Browning rifles, Leupold scopes and $800 Excalibur crossbows. They're wily and they're stealthy, like the deer stalker Nores apprehended a few years ago. He was trawling Saratoga, Calif., an enclave of million-dollar homes, in his wife's new Honda, a $2,000 rifle and low-noise ammo hidden under his kids' coloring books in the backseat. "Sometimes it's almost like an addiction with these guys," says Nores...
...oversight. Not only is the military dispatching a high-powered investigative team to Iraq to look into past malfeasance, but it's also creating a senior Army panel to examine what systemic problems may be contributing to the plunder. No evidence has yet surfaced that the missing arms or ammo ended up in the hands of the various militias and insurgent groups that have been battling U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies. But the lack of accountability comes just as some of those Iraqis--and police forces in the U.S.--are complaining about lacking sufficient weapons and ammunition...
...organize missions and react to ambushes. Staff Sergeant Robert Paul Rosell, a California National Guardsman who works as a mentor to the Afghan battalion led by Waris and Ahmad, says, "The hardest lesson is getting through the idea of 'one target, one shot.' They tend to go blacko on ammo." Other military trainers call it the "spray and pray" school of target practice...
...couldn't. Military officials recently told Congress that 45,000 ground-combat vehicles - a good portion of the entire U.S. inventory of tanks, helicopters, armored personnel carriers, trucks and humvees - are now in Iraq. They are spread across 15 bases, 38 supply depots, 18 fuel-supply centers and 10 ammo dumps. These items have to be taken back home or destroyed, lest they fall into the hands of one faction or another. Pentagon officials will try to bring back as much of the downtime gear as possible - dining halls, office buildings, vending machines, furniture, mobile latrines, computers, paper clips...
...scenes as taut as they are acutely observed. Moss spends most of his sorry time being chased and shot at: as he tries to ford a river pursued by a varmint posse and a killer dog, or jumping out a second-story hotel window with some of Chigurh's ammo in his gut. Joining the chase, of both Moss and Chigurh, are the venerable, philosophizing Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) and a wise-ass DEA headhunter (Woody Harrelson). And every bit of this way, I'm admiring and loving...