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...four days in Shanghai were also supposed to reassure Americans half a world away that life was getting back to normal. It couldn't have started on a worse day. As the President's chopper took off from the White House last Wednesday, the war at home was breaking out all over. The number of people exposed to anthrax on Capitol Hill was mushrooming, and the leaders with whom he had breakfast that morning were thinking of a temporary lockdown on Capitol Hill. Bush called the Vice President to get an update on the victim count as he flew...
...running commandos into Afghanistan. It can use the bases in Pakistan or Uzbekistan; it can establish a temporary camp in Afghanistan; or it can use the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, now loading up in Oman, as a base for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Army's commando chopper unit. The first is politically sensitive; nobody's eager to do the second; so even though forces may use Pakistani bases for refueling and emergencies, the Kitty Hawk, sailing in the Arabian Sea, is likely to be the primary base of sustained special operations...
Once in theater, much of the work of tracking down bin Laden and his lieutenants will fall to the supersecret Delta Force. Forming into 15- to 21-man troops or four- to six-man teams, they will chopper into place, flying into canyons under cover of darkness. Then, protected by Kevlar body armor, they will fast-rope to the ground, bending under the weight of night-sighted M-4 carbines and grenade launchers, carrying radios and handheld global-positioning gear. Some of the teams will feature snipers; others will race across the desert in specially equipped dune buggies; yet others...
...running commandos into Afghanistan. It can use the bases in Pakistan or Uzbekistan; it can establish a temporary camp in Afghanistan; or it can use the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, now loading up in Oman, as a base for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Army's commando chopper unit. The first is politically sensitive; nobody's eager to do the second; so even though forces may use Pakistani bases for refueling and emergencies, the Kitty Hawk, sailing in the Arabian Sea, is likely to be the primary base of sustained special operations...
...regional business travel, getting to the airport can take longer than the flight. So fractional-ownership schemes that made private jets more affordable are now available for helicopters. It takes only 120 minutes to chopper from New York City to Capitol Hill--without a rush-hour traffic battle at each end. Dallas to Fort Worth? Fourteen minutes. A commuter chopper is as comfortable as a jet, says HeliFlite Shares CEO Mark Ozenick, left. It's also as pricey. A 60-hour share runs about...