Word: tented
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...open 7-ton truck-lined with sandbags in case we hit a mine-for 17 hours. Their base, Camp Viper, in south-central Iraq, had a team of 44 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, medics and corpsmen. I toured the two 40-ft. by 40-ft. operating tents, each reinforced with two layers of tent canvas and a solid floor. They were clean and sanitary, as any operating room should...
...embarked for Kuwait on board the U.S.S. Rushmore in early January. The last time he wrote to his foster mother he complained he couldn?t keep the sand out of his tent or food. Less than a month later he was dead...
...subscribe to the theory that the attacker had an accomplice and I do not want to give any of our fine soldiers the impression that we don't trust them." He learned about the guard when he was challenged for a password while returning to his own tent, late in the evening. One officer jokingly asked Col. Hodges how he got past the guard without a password and received the reply, "I tried to overwhelm him with the sheer force of my personality. When that failed, he eventually saw the logic of letting me into my tent so he could...
...rear-echelon camp of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was rocked by a grenade attack early Sunday morning, local time. TIME's Jim Lacey was 20 yards away from the tent when the attack occurred; he reports 10 people were injured, six of them critically after two grenades were thrown into a tent. Lacey says the grenades targeted the tent of one of the commanders of the 101st...
...last SCUD alert of the day came while hundreds of soldiers were eating in the mess tent. About half of the soldiers left on their own, but the rest had to be ushered away from their chicken dinners by the non-commissioned officers. Eventually, most of the soldier left for the nearest bunker, except for one who resisted all entreaties to leave and continued to eat his meal. "Dinner is the one meal of the day that should be eaten in a dignified way," he said, "And I refuse to be rushed...