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Since IFF transponders are impractical for ground forces, aircraft flying close support stay in constant radio contact with forward air controllers, whose job it is to track the shifting battle lines and point out enemy targets. Before an attack plane can launch its missiles at a Iraqi tank, an FAC must identify the target, declare that particular plane "hot" and switch on the targeting authority on the plane's computer. "The complexity is that you've got human beings in the chain," says Army spokesman Major Peter Keating. "And at night, when everybody's moving and talking on the radio...
...choral group in a rendition of "Dominum Salvum Fac," which is the traditional presidential song because it includes the phrase nostrum presidentae, "our president." The laughter this generated attracted a wandering television crew, which unfortunately missed outon the chance to catch Bok with his baton up. Bokand his assistant maestros had already returned toMassachusetts Hall...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fac-filled discussion of scientific progress in the eighteenth century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...they resemble Penn and Cornell [who, with Harvard, are the fac to take the 1984-85 Ivy League title] and this shows what we can do against teams like that...
...Leonard L. Bailey, the California surgeon who supervised the pioneering transplant last month of a baboon heart to the infant Baby Fac, Predicted soon after the procedure was completed that his tiny patient would lead a "long and healthy" life...