Word: huntting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used). The middle vehicle was the company's heavily armored Mercedes, used for transporting VIPs. It held two former British soldiers: Simon Merry at the wheel, and Ian Harris riding shotgun. Bringing up the rear of the convoy was Ahmelman, driving a second BMW; with him were James "Jay" Hunt, a former U.S. Army Ranger, and Allan "Johnno" Johnson, the team leader and an ex-British Army medic. Each man had an arc of responsibility to watch and fire into in case of trouble...
...Surette continued firing until he passed out from loss of blood, while Yeager, unable to see the attackers, blasted away pointlessly at a barricade before running to take cover in a ditch on the opposite side of the road. In the rear car, Ahmelman was slumped against the window. Hunt, bleeding to death from a wound to his femoral artery, lay on the ground beside the vehicle while Johnson tried to treat him. Harris, in the armored Mercedes, tried to drive closer to help Surette, but the vehicle sputtered to a halt after about 3 m, apparently damaged...
...wasn't my husband in an armored vehicle?" says Jay Hunt's wife Colleen from her home in Kentucky. "I have an eight-year-old and a four-year-old who don't have a father because someone screwed up." ERSM's Dubai-based managing director, Simon Crane, says the front and rear cars were not armored because there was no garage in Baghdad capable of correctly armor-plating a BMW. "Hindsight can be a terrible thing," says Crane, who served as a British Army officer from 1988 to 2003. The men in the convoy applied "exactly the correct fire...
...Apollo team knew their job was risky. When the survivors returned to their Baghdad house after the firefight, they found laid out on Jay Hunt's bed a farewell letter and gifts for his family. Ahmelman too "knew it could happen," says Cridland, who discussed the dangers with his friend a few days before he left Australia. Ahmelman had prepared for his new job by taking refresher courses in shooting and unarmed combat. "He was a warrior," says Cridland. In war, wrote the Chinese sage Sun Tzu, "he will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared...
...says Pieter Roelofs, curator of the exhibition. "It is the painstaking art, often with one-hair brushes, of re-creating the world they saw on parchment." And indeed, in all 35 miniatures that are assembled, it's the details-the facial expressions of the cavaliers and ladies on a hunt, and even their dogs-that give the viewer the sensation of witnessing the scenes firsthand. tel: (31-24) 3608805; www.gebroedersvanlimburg.nl