Word: armoring
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...Army has taken a lot of heat lately for sending tens of thousands of soldiers into Iraq without adequate protection. Lawmakers and troops and their families have all complained that the G.I.s lack the latest bulletproof vests. Too many of the U.S. military's humvees don't have enough armor to protect the soldiers inside. The CH-47 Chinook helicopter that Iraqis downed Nov. 2, though equipped with the standard package of defensive flares and chaff, was not carrying the newest and most sophisticated antimissile system, which might have protected it from the shoulder-fired missile that apparently brought...
...pits the humans against a swarm of the Matrix's sentinels--those metal octopests, those enemy anemones that chased the humans in M1 and M2. They're back in megaforce, forming a snake shape that rears and strikes at Zion. So the human soldiers get outfitted in gigantic robot armor--clinking, clanking, clattering collections of collagenous junk...
...American soldiers in the current Iraq war have a better chance of surviving those wounds and getting back home than any other soldiers in history. Better protection, faster evacuation and improved medical techniques at the edge of combat have dramatically reduced battlefield mortality. At the same time, although body armor and wound-sealing potions have made it less likely that soldiers will be killed in battle, they have also increased the likelihood of certain kinds of injuries, especially amputation, because a soldier's extremities remain vulnerable to the kind of homemade munitions the Iraqis are routinely deploying. The Iraqis lack...
...same training as we had before," he says, standing guard outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have yet to get uniforms or the Glock pistols promised by the U.S. The bluff policeman, 46, claims the spiraling risk to men like him only "makes me stronger." But he's not sure his salary of about $100 a month--three times his former pay--is enough...
Bazooka Tooth, the star of Aesop Rock’s fifth album, embodies modern humanity’s dark side with mechanical precision. He’s a cyborg with “diamond-cutter spine” and “armadillo armor that bends around the blades,” an arrogant pimp who rocks Timbs and spits “low-life game...