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...medevac helicopter, relieves a unit pinned down by a superior Iraqi force. In the course of this operation her craft is downed, and she and her crew fight off enemy attacks all night long. The next morning, though wounded, she stays behind to cover their withdrawal to a rescue chopper and is killed...
...insurgent like Forbes." There's also "a sense that Dole is carrying too much Washington baggage to change things," says Joe Johnston, Dole's co-chair in Hancock. "And people can't see how reducing the deficit is good for them. He's coming across as just a head chopper...
...olestra. Because the stuff has not been approved by the FDA, each of us has signed a Procter & Gamble "informed consent" release, which we notice with some discomfort bears the 800 number of a doctor to call in case of emergency. This fellow, whose name is Sweeney, will chopper in with a medevac team if something goes wrong. Or so we assume...
...brass when she complained of the Navy's malfeasance in probing her charges, says Greene's alleged behavior, while it may seem almost innocent, can be unnerving. "It's intimidating coming from a boss, but that's something a lot of men just don't get," the unemployed former chopper pilot said last week. Coughlin's experience does not make her optimistic that the Greene case will lead to enlightenment. Although more than 140 Navy and Marine officers were cited for wrongdoing at the Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton, none was convicted at court-martial...
...were permitted to land. More than 25 minutes of circling Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' craft, however, brought no reply from inside the gondola, which was covered with thick canvas. After firing warning shots, the helicopter pilot became convinced that the craft was unmanned. Ordered to bring it down, the chopper fired about 20 bullets, enough to send the balloon and its gondola plunging to the forest below. Belarussian officials then kept silent for 24 hours while they sifted the wreckage and identified the mangled bodies...