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...trainee's Army is like a poor, proud family - all patched-up hand-me-downs and secondhand roses. Nearly everything we touch - our tent, our gas mask, our sleeping bag and our M-16 A2 semiautomatic - is merely gear, to be returned in the same worn, perforated, dinged-up condition it was issued...
...when my family traveled around the country anybody ever took a long look at us and said, "You folks from Kansas City, or what?" For one thing, the organizations that seem to believe it's helpful (or maybe amusing) to publicize urban poundage comparisons hadn't yet got into gear. But I think it's fair to say we didn't give the impression of having missed a lot of meals. The only nutritional theory I ever heard from my father was that you couldn't gain more weight from eating food than the food itself weighed--so a person...
Last month both Champion and Gear for Sports, the two largest suppliers of Harvard merchandise, agreed to disclose the locations of their factories...
...because of the open line, the 911 dispatcher knew for certain--for seven long minutes--that the gunmen were there in the library and were shooting fellow students. At that early stage, though, only about a dozen cops had arrived on the scene, and none of them had protective gear or heavy weapons. They could have charged in with their handguns, but their training, and orders from their commanders, told them to "secure the perimeter" so the shooters couldn't escape and couldn't pursue the students who had fled. And by the time the trained SWAT units were pulling...
...moment of the first report of gunshots at Columbine, SWAT-team members raced in from every direction, some without their equipment, some in jeans and T shirts, just trying to get there quickly. They had only two Plexiglas ballistic shields among them. As Manwaring dressed in his bulletproof gear, he says, he asked several kids to draw on notebook paper whatever they could remember of the layout of the sprawling, 250,000-sq.-ft. school. But the kids were so upset that they were not even sure which way was north...