Word: ammo
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With the Taliban fleeing through the ravines, Delta Company is told that the operation on the ridge will take "just several hours" and they need to haul only their weapons and ammo onto the Chinooks. But like many missions, this one doesn't go according to plan. The first night, Delta Company's men are spectators. Once special forces pin down the Taliban, A-10 Thunderbolts light up the canyon with a barrage from their Gatling guns and several 500-lb. bombs. At about 2 a.m., an Apache helicopter roars overhead, dumps out a body bag and clatters away...
When folks at the Arsenal on the Charles mention 15 and 35 millimeter, they’re not talking about ammo. Or at least, not anymore...
...Center came to the 47-acre office park two years ago, discussion of film reels has replaced talk about bullets. But just a decade ago, the sprawling Watertown commercial center was home to one of the busiest munitions plants in the country. The Arsenal churned out ammunition, small arms, ammo cartridges, and light armor for the U.S. Military until it was decommissioned in 1995. The site was subsequently cleaned up and developed into a multi-use office park, which Harvard acquired in 2001 for a modest $162 million...
...relative quiet of an arc of Sunni tribal lands around the capital. That is the true heartland of the resistance, where it draws on massive weapons depots secreted in river valleys and deserts. The nationalist fighters who control the area supply Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's networks with the ammo they use for their deadly operations, according to U.S. military intelligence. Even as more attacks took place last week in the run-up to the election--including mortar rounds on the U.S. embassy that killed two Americans--the Iraqi government announced the capture of several key al-Zarqawi lieutenants, including...
...rush to Baghdad. Although that suggests there were insufficient U.S. forces on the ground, some military leaders believe that even 100,000 more troops would not have made a difference. In October 2003, Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, then commander of the ground forces in Iraq, said, "You have ammo dumps [in Iraq] that are 15 km by 15 km. To physically guard every single bunker is impossible." But as the Administration learned last week, it takes only one to set off damaging charges. Reported by Andrew Purvis/Vienna, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow, Simon Robinson/ Johannesburg and Mark Thompson/Washington