Word: snipering
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...AWACs radioed the B-1 the location of its new target, aircraft commander Captain Chris Wachter and his crew set about triple-checking the coordinates with the controller. "We want to make sure that we're able to be very precise with our weapons, much like, say, a sniper rifle where it's one shot, one kill," says Wachter. There was silence in the cockpit as crew members handled their assigned tasks. "When we got the word that it was a priority leadership target, you get kind of an adrenaline rush," says Lieut. Colonel Fred Swan, senior weapons-system officer...
...Marines are video-game twitchy. They shoot up a minivan with a woman and child, fearing it is full of explosives. For an hour or so, the stress of the morning threatens to unleash lethal chaos. It isn't until American sniper teams set up on rooftops that order is restored. "These guys are more on the edge because they're sitting out in the open with vehicles coming at them," says Staff Sergeant Dino Moreno, a sniper. "We can fire into the grille or the tire. We're trying to prevent as many civilians from getting killed as possible...
MEMOIR He's one war behind, but this former Marine sniper's bestselling chronicle of a soldier's life in Gulf War I has helped readers grasp this...
...cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing to win. Okay, so granted that bingo, a favored pastime of Britain's comfy slipper set, will never pass for an extreme sport. But recently the industry has been working hard...
...DELIVERIES Navy Special Warfare forces swept the waterways around Iraq's lone deep-sea port at Umm Qasr for mines and sniper's nests. By the end of last week, they had secured the port, paving the way for British vessels carrying food and other supplies for civilians in the south...