Word: eglin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military plans to start test-launching ballistic missiles from our fabled ecosystem. On your next vacation visit, you'll be able to watch 12-ton Hera rockets blast out of the wetlands and get shot down in a blaze of glory by Patriot-type missiles launched from Eglin Air Force Base, about 700 miles away. Our new slogan is "See the Lower Keys before they're debris...
...doing everything possible to ensure that your Lower Keys missile-watching experience will be a safe and happy one. I personally spent two weeks trying to get the Air Force to answer a question about whether the Patriot-like missiles that will be coming at us from Eglin will be carrying warheads capable of blowing us up if they should miss the target missiles. To which I eventually received, in writing, the not entirely soothing reply, "The interceptor [Patriot-like] missiles are 'hit-to-kill' design or are a proximity-fused design which carries conventional explosives in shaped configuration...
...Army Ranger training exercise killed four soldiers at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The trainees died after spending several hours in chilly chest-high swamp waters. The men had previously completed training in rugged forest, desert and mountain terrains. Four separate investigations of the deaths are under...
...Department dispatched four amphibious warships carrying 2,000 combat-ready Marines to the waters off the coast of Haiti. The Pentagon revealed that three weeks ago Army Rangers and Navy Seals had conducted practice runs for an invasion of Haiti: staging a mock attack on an isolated airfield at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and "capturing" a port along the Gulf coast. The exercise, which one military expert described as a "final rehearsal," was similar to maneuvers conducted just before the U.S. invaded Panama in December of 1989 to overthrow Manuel Noriega...