Word: ramps
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There were 22 people in my particular LCA [landing craft, artillery]. We were under fire as we neared the beach. When the ramp of the LCA went down, I was the first one to step out. As I was getting off, I was shot in my side, but the bullet only went through muscle--it didn't hit any joints--so I was able to keep going. When you're a leader, you've got to see to it that everything gets done. As long as you can stand up, you keep going. After getting shot, I stepped...
...Private 1st Class Jonah Bishop, exhausted, his face filled with dust, his eyes as red as his round cheeks, collapses on the back ramp of his M-113 Track. "That's one thing about this place," he tries to explain, shortly before passing out. "Time doesn't matter. Days don't matter," Bishop frowns. "It's like being in Indiana...
...Netvigator Pro media PC clock in at a combined $7,000. Prices won't remain so high forever; analysts expect PCs with media-center capabilities to be available for $600 in the next couple of years, while flat-panel TV prices should drop in 2003 as companies ramp up their production. The microchip has infiltrated the living room and it's here to stay, at least until wireless streamlines everything else away. Does this mean we can finally order pizza through our TVs? Now that's progress...
National ID cards aren't here yet, but the Federal Government is about to give us a foretaste. Soon to appear: Transportation Worker Identity Cards (TWICs). Envisioned as a universal credential to be carried by everyone in the transportation industry, from airport ramp workers to truckers and longshoremen, they are a response to complaints that despite new security measures, the various IDs that many ports and other facilities use are too easy to steal or fake. The agency is ready to begin testing several types of cards at the ports of L.A.--Long Beach, Calif., and Philadelphia--Wilmington, Del., according...
...could probably be argued that we've been on alert since September 11th, 2001, so I'm not really sure this change has changed anything. All of our emergency response teams were already on highest alert before the warning, and I don't think there's any way to ramp up from there, either in terms of manpower or budgets...