Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Textron Inc. 's Bell Helicopter Division (Fort Worth), Huey and Cobra combat helicopters; $60.3 million...
...experienced all-volunteer basic training at Fort Ord, Calif, in the spring of 1974, and the picture Bell paints is totally unrecognizable...
Either the Army has changed a great deal in a few months, or Fort Jackson is a unique trainees' paradise, or Mr. Bell's vision is highly clouded...
...past four months, five million blackbirds have screeched and wheeled over Christian County, Ky., ever narrowing their circle until, with a final frenzied flapping, they settle into their roosting spot-30 acres of pine trees in the midst of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division base at Fort Campbell. At dawn the birds (mostly starlings and a scattering of grackles, cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds) take off to feast at local farms and feed lots. Again the sky darkens; again the air is filled with raucous cries...
Distress Calls. All this argues for action, and the Army has indeed tried. When the birds first arrived in October, choosing a roost near Fort Campbell's barracks, soldiers played recorded starling distress calls and set off firecrackers. The blackbirds moved to the 30 acres of pines, where their comings and goings have since daily halted plane take-offs and landings. Hoping to move the birds again, the Army thinned the stand of trees, thus reducing the habitat. The birds merely perched closer together...