Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Soviet Ambassador Gennadi I. Sazhenev rode one of the Mercedes to the new airstrip, where 126 occupants of the Soviet embassy were to board a U.S. military C-130 transport, a bizarre diplomatic clash occurred. U.S. soldiers insisted on searching the car. "We're looking for bombs," an American officer disingenuously explained. The ambassador grumpily assented. But for nearly eight hours he angrily resisted efforts by U.S. soldiers to search all of the Soviet baggage, including a number of unsealed crates. When he finally and reluctantly yielded, the reason for his obduracy became clear: one crate contained...
...mortar and gun positions that threatened the invading troops early in the action. But they also suffered casualties, some in heroic low-level flights to draw ground fire, thereby exposing the enemy position to attacks from other U.S. choppers. The Pentagon said five helicopters had been shot down. One transport helicopter, hit by ground fire as it brought troops into the Point Salines airstrip, struck another chopper in its uncontrolled descent. Both crashed...
...spend their money on combat hardware rather than on cargo ships and planes. Since 1981, the number of U.S. "mobile logistics ships" (vessels that carry petroleum, ammunition and other cargo to resupply battle fleets at sea) has increased by exactly one, from 72 to 73. Some 50 new transport planes are on order to supplement the present fleet of 70 C-5A Galaxies and 234 C-141 Star-Lifters. But the new planes will not begin flying for two years...
Bodybags form a line across the tarmac. Wounded servicemen, dazed and confused, are wheeled into the hold of a military transport. Scenes from a decade past interrupt the sterile excitement of Sunday Night Football. The grisly images are beamed from Lebanon, but the fears they evoke emerge from the seemingly forgotten tragedy of the Vietnam...
...revealed last week that the White House wanted to revive a plan, first floated by Henry Kissinger in 1975, to train and equip up to two Jordanian army divisions to serve as a special strike force in the gulf region. Under the proposal, the divisions would receive C-130 transport planes, armored personnel carriers and Driver-crossing equipment. The project, vigorously opposed by Jerusalem, was still being discussed with Congress when Israelis leaked word of it in hopes of killing the plan...