Word: parachutist
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...burqa and tossing it to the ground. "I train soldiers. I am Khatol!" Hearing that name, the guards apologized and, too flustered even to salute, opened the gates. Khatol Muhammadzai is the highest-ranking woman in Afghanistan's air force and the country's first and only female parachutist. That day, after more than five long years of forced retirement, Khatol had come back to work...
What you wrote about was not "normal" Marine hazing. It was the special pinning ceremony engaged in by Marine Force Recon, one of America's toughest and most elite warrior units. These men are all volunteers and eagerly look forward to the day when they win their gold parachutist's wings. I doubt that many look forward to the "ceremony" that accompanies the wings, but all look back with pride on enduring it. The ritual is not unlike the ceremony that American Indians went through when they entered manhood. GARRETT C. DAILEY Oakland, California...
...solve a political problem. Many experts see Chechnya's independence bid as an internal security problem and suspect that the use of military force was pushed by the Federal Counterintelligence Service, successor to the KGB. Other senior officers are contemptuous of Grachev, whom they consider a jumped-up parachutist elevated to Defense Minister because he is loyal to Yeltsin, not because he is good...
...during a competition in Portland, Oregon. She withdrew from the event and has traveled with bodyguards ever since. (It apparently has not distracted her; she won the women's championship at the nationals last weekend.) The vulnerability of even 200-lb. bruisers was demonstrated sensationally last November, when a parachutist disrupted the heavyweight championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe in Las Vegas...
...shocking and bizarre upset in Las Vegas, challenger Evander Holyfield took back the heavyweight boxing crown in a decision over previously undefeated champ Riddick Bowe. The fight was interrupted for 20 minutes during the seventh round when a parachutist came down into the outdoor ring at Caesars Palace. He landed on the ropes, bounced into the $800 ringside seats, was pummeled by irate spectators and wound up in the hospital in fair condition. Bowe's pregnant wife Judy fainted and had to be taken away, but her husband, for understandable reasons, was not told. Holyfield became the third fighter (after...