Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...valley in eastern Bosnia, American Special Forces troops with blackened faces silently slip out of a tree line to point laser beams at Serbian artillery pieces, ammunition stores and fuel dumps. The F/A-18 Hornet and A-6 Intruder aircraft from the carriers roar in, lock on to the laser spots and send their bombs streaking toward the targets...
...sooner does Bruce (Jason Scott Lee, no relation) conquer the little world of kung fu than he moves on to the larger -- well, anyway, flashier -- world of show biz. And, of course, more troubles that need braving out: he plays Kato on The Green Hornet TV series, but it gets canceled; he has a million- dollar idea for another series, which is swept out from under him because the network doesn't want the Chinese hero played by a Chinese actor (hence the lead in Kung Fu goes to David Carradine). Bruce returns to his roots, from which he draws...
...Hornet Field...
...April 18 proved such a surprise that Tokyo schoolchildren waved cheerily at the bombers as they roared overhead. Aiming for military targets, factories and power stations, Doolittle's planes dropped bombs on the Japanese capital and made symbolic strikes on five other cities. Lacking fuel to return to the Hornet or to reach any safe haven, the American pilots had to head for Nationalist-held areas of China, bail out and hope for the best. Most of them made it, but three were killed in crashes and eight captured...
Pentagon officials, while delighted with the gulf-war performance of weapons like the F-18 Hornet and the Tomahawk cruise missile, have privately concluded that some other important systems were maddeningly unreliable. Secret Navy memos disclose that shipboard communications computers, the key link to General Norman Schwarzkopf's headquarters, were dangerously slow and out of date. Crucial orders from Riyadh were transmitted to some naval vessels at pokey telex speed, often arriving in more than 20 separate pieces and taking up to six hours to be completed. (Personal computers found in many homes can transmit data 10 to 20 times...