Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dawned warm, dry, sunny, a typical October morning in Cairo. In the modern suburb of Nasr City, tank and truck engines were coughing to life as the troops began their final preparations for the big parade: the President, as every soldier knew, demanded nothing less than crisp precision and split-second timing. Already the six-lane parade route had been cleared of traffic, and 2,000 portable chairs were neatly arrayed in the reviewing stand across from the pyramid-shaped monument that is Egypt's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
Normally, Sadat, a man who had spent much of his early life as a soldier, relished the pomp and flourish of military power on display. On this morning he was not enthusiastic. Complaining of fatigue to his Vice President, Hosni Mubarak, he said he wished he did not have to attend the parade. Mubarak urged him to stay at home and rest. But Sadat's sense of duty won out. He would go, and afterward, in his Nile Delta home village of Mit Abu el Kom, visit the grave of his brother Atif, a pilot killed on the first...
...must have of the new Stealth desks. Lucky you asked me about it here, where we're all stripped down to our gym shorts and can talk man to man. As an officer, I would have had to give you the old 'no comment' on that one, soldier...
...quite a long story, soldier, but in a nutshell, the Air Force started out with Stealth for planes; the Navy wanted it for subs; the Army couldn't thing of anything so it asked for more tanks; the commies said it would cost too much; and some smart ass in the Senate found out it wouldn't be ready for anything larger than a desk until 1998. So we didn't improve national security, but for only a million per unit, we've leapfrogged the Russians on office technology...
...wouldn't, soldier. It's kind of like the B-1 bomber: it wouldn't do us any good under any conditions, but we don't know what else to do with the money until we get a new idea. Lets people around here feel a little better about themselves and keeps the Russians guessing...