Word: armoring
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Army General Barry McCaffrey, "but not to a soldier who's extremely concerned about the safety of himself and his buddies." Rumsfeld compounded the gaffe by adding that "you can have all the armor in the world in a tank, and a tank can be blown up." On Capitol Hill, Democrats ripped Rumsfeld for his insensitivity. "By that logic," says Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, "we should send our troops into battle on bicycles...
...soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" SPECIALIST THOMAS WILSON, of the Tennessee National Guard, to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in a town-hall meeting with soldiers at Camp Buehring in Kuwait; later a reporter revealed that he had prompted Wilson to ask the question...
...army camp. Since then more than 30 people have been killed by unknown attackers in what Buddhists fear is an escalating campaign to drive them from southern Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with sleek Italian-made shotguns, the businessman?who doesn't want to be named?takes out a Walther PPK pistol and deftly...
Winding their armor through the desolate buildings bound for their first target--Objective Bud, identified as a congregating point for foreign fighters--the Wolf Pack started taking fire immediately. A Bradley vehicle piloted by Sergeant First Class James Cantrell shuddered and filled with dust as it ran over a roadside bomb. The blast was so powerful it was at first mistaken for a bomb dropped by one of the many warplanes screeching overhead. "Goddam," said Fitts, locked down inside the mechanical beast, his shotgun nestled under his chin...
...meantime, Harold Erickson is on the job. He spent much of his 22 years in the military organizing and shipping vital supplies like ammo and armor to thousands of soldiers all over the world. Though he recognizes that his current shipments for UPS clearly don't have that life-or-death urgency, Erickson knows what the customer expects. That's why UPS has an on-time delivery rate that's better than 99% for Royal Canin's upscale pet food. Erickson admits, "I was surprised that UPS did this sort of thing." If Eskew has his way, people...