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After graduating today, Cromwell will spend seven months training in Texas before heading to Germany as a second lieutenant in the air defense artillery, where he will be responsible for eight HUMVEEs that fire stinger missiles to protect ground troops...
This is not to say your plane could not be brought down by a suicide bomber of another sort. It could. It could also be brought down by a meteorite. Or by a Stinger missile fired by Vermont dairymen in armed rebellion. These are all possible. But because they are rather improbable, we do not alter our daily lives to defend against the possibility...
...Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine...
...understanding of freedom's cost in duty and sacrifice. He acknowledged that the soldiers he was sending into battle were not just warriors but daddies; and he was sending them to fight a suicidal enemy in a country that was a garden of mines, abuzz with old U.S. Stinger missiles waiting to bring down a helicopter. No one expected them all to come home alive. But hardly anyone said not to send them...
...Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine...