Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kelley, the R.D.F.'s first commander (he is about to be succeeded by Army Major General Robert Kingston), pared down lists of the supplies that his troops would lug into battle. Kelley even discovered that an Air Force ground crew is regularly supplied with ten times the quantity of beer and soft drinks that Army forces get. Units assigned to the R.D.F. will lose such amenities...
...them: at least $130,000.) During the flight, they produced a maximum of 2,700 watts of power, less than 4 h.p.; that is roughly one-thirtieth the power of a small, gasoline-driven aircraft. But it was more than enough to drive Challenger's two beer-can-size electric motors, mounted directly behind its big prop...
...worry too much about competing. Everyone reached the top of this puny hill eventually, although a few fell once or twice. When they reached the lip of the peak, their bikes would jump into the air and they'd land on the back wheel, cackling. Stop for a beer, watch a few others come up, and then go right back down and start over again. "Do you practice this much?" I asked one man, who stood at the top in his cycle club colors. "Practice? Shit, man, this is for fun. Why would we practice...
...trooper would head for the bar and order a beer. "You got ID?" the bartender would demand. Well, it was the nation's first teen-aged war. An adolescent might be old enough to look upon (even to perform) horrors that would make Goya turn away. But back home, he was not old enough to drink. And in a day or two, if the soldier stayed in uniform, a fellow American would ask some stunning, stopping version of: "How many babies did you kill?" For many Viet Nam veterans, the moment of return, that bleak homecoming, was the beginning...
Just before dawn, a pack of Times Square ruffians comes running wildly after a terrified, nearly naked young man. The mob is close behind, screeching, cursing, lobbing bottles and beer cans at the victim...