Word: armoring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...military planners are marveling over the success of a key piece of battlefield equipment, worn for the first time by U.S. troops in combat. The new lightweight Kevlar vest, officially dubbed "interceptor body armor," is being credited for holding down casualties in the just completed battle for Shah-i-Kot. Some soldiers pinned down in fire fights survived AK-47 and other small-arms fire to their chest and back because of the new vest. After the battle, soldiers noted that most of the wounds suffered by U.S. troops were in the arms and legs...
Much that was hidden has come to light. At the top of the Last Judgment, two angels dressed in armor roll up the heavens - and we can now see that planets surround the sun and moon. While restorer Enrichetta Capodilista was working on the Massacre of the Innocents, she noticed that five of the women, whose children are being torn from them, have dark streaks on their faces. Her colleagues thought the marks might be water stains, but after she cleaned the women's faces with cotton swabs and distilled water their significance became clear. They are the desperate tears...
...Chinooks headed for Ginger, at the southeast corner of the valley, where American forces had met intense opposition two days before. As the choppers prepared to set down, they came under heavy fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, one of which bounced, without exploding, off the armor of a Chinook. In the same bird, a hydraulic line was cut, and the pilots radioed back to Bagram that continuing with the mission would be suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place...
...Chinooks headed for Ginger, at the southeast corner of the valley, where American forces had met intense opposition two days before. As the choppers prepared to set down, they came under heavy fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, one of which bounced, without exploding, off the armor of a Chinook. In the same bird, a hydraulic line was cut, and the pilots radioed back to Bagram that continuing with the mission would be suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place...
...President was on the move, underground. The rest of us had stopped in our tracks, no idea where we were or what it meant. And so it was up to Giuliani to hold off despair long enough for the rest of us to get our balance, find our armor and join in to fight at his side. That day and the days that followed, he managed to sound realistic and optimistic at the same time. The danger has not passed. Our defenses are not perfect. Our enemies are cunning. He knew the difference between information and inspiration and never substituted...