Word: billeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks following the end of the war, islanders complained about the exhaust-spewing military trucks that were taking parking spaces on Ross Road, the capital's main street. Residents who had to billet the soldiers, sleeping as many as four to a room, only half jokingly expressed fears for the women. Now the troops live in three large "coastels," self-contained floating barracks, each housing up to 930 men. The facilities have mess halls, gymnasiums and a squash court; they purify their own water and generate their own electricity. Says Major General Keith Spacie, commander...
About two hours later we decided to seize the opportunity to move to the relative safety of TIME'S office, located beneath the street level in an adjacent building. As we made our way down the stairs in the darkness, we found that the army billet in our lobby had suffered a direct hit. The ceiling had collapsed. The doors of our mailboxes had been ripped off their hinges. Not a window on the ground floor remained intact. We hastened to the TIME office 50 yds. away. As the night wore on, the fighting flared up again. Sleep...
President Reagan accepted blame for the deaths of the 241 Marines blasted from their billet in Beirut last October [Jan. 9]. If Reagan is personally responsible, was President Franklin Roosevelt liable for the thousands of naval personnel lost in the sinking of the fleet at Pearl Harbor? He definitely did not think so, even though he stationed them in Hawaii. F.D.R. summarily relieved the local commanders. Without question, they were guilty of not adhering to the standing operation procedure prescribed in military doctrine. This Beirut fiasco was a "failure of command" beginning at company or higher unit level...
...national dish. And now, with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades ago when the United Nations forces were trying to hold the Pusan perimeter...
Among Soviet garrison troops, morale appeared to be high. "We have everything here we could possibly need," a swarthy, French-speaking 2nd lieutenant from Uzbekistan cheerily assured TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, outside his billet. His men were all delighted to be in Afghanistan, he said, mostly because of the perks. "This is a poor country so the only thing we purchase locally is fruit," he said with a smile. "We've brought everything else from the Soviet Union-in our cook tents it's just like eating at home." Best of all, he said, was the special combat...