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...Through four hours of battle, I saw U.S. forces drill the three Ansar positions with mortars, heavy machinegun and anti-aircraft artillery, 40mm grenades and 500 pound bombs dropped from planes overhead. Still, the fire was returned by an enemy clearly visible through binoculars. At one point, three Ansar fighters simply stood on a mountain ledge, not flinching at the torrent of fire poured at them. At one stage one defender screamed "God is Great," even as grenades and heavy rounds peppered the cave he had ducked into...
...drill simulated a transformer explosion in which a Harvard Medical School dorm became “contaminated” with hazardous material, he says...
...forgotten how to put it back together. "I used to be able to do this in two minutes," she says, with an embarrassed smile. An instructor who arrived with the rifles gives her a few clues, and she soon remembers which parts go where. She goes through the drill again: It's closer to 10 minutes than two, but her confidence is returning. "When the Americans come," she says, her lips pressed in determination, "I will be ready for them...
...works: McArthur River uses two horizontal floors, above and below the uranium-ore zone. One floor is 1,740 ft. underground and the other is at 2,100 ft., where Powder was stationed on the day of our visit. To start mining a new section of ore, a drill is used to dig a 15-in. pilot hole from the upper level to the lower one. Once the drill bit punches through the ceiling of the lower horizontal shaft, the drill is removed and a 10-ton, 10-ft.-wide reamer with tungsten-carbide teeth is attached. At the upper...
...stop Saddam this time, the Pentagon has contacted fire fighters like Boots & Coots International Well Control of Houston, which helped snuff out oil-well infernos during the Gulf War. It could take those operators a month to start work, especially if they are forced to drill for water to put out fires in arid regions of Iraq. The Pentagon hopes that won't be necessary. U.S. troops, including special forces, plan to descend on Iraq's oil fields in the conflict's early hours. "We would like to be able to very rapidly gain control over as much of that...