Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artillery. But they know that no American commander has enough troops to man a defense perimeter extending out to the range of a rocket (five miles) or even of a mortar (3.5 miles). Furthermore, a flak vest-the only real protection against mortar fragments, short of a deep trench-is an intolerable burden for U.S. troops in Viet Nam's stifling heat...
...days, the three huddled in a trench at 18,200 ft. Their supplies ran out, and only the lucky discovery of a food cache left by summertime climbers saved them. Unaware of the cache, their four companions 900 ft. below gave them up for lost; Blomberg and John Edwards battled their way back to 10,000 ft. and stamped out a message in the snow: WEX6-DON-HELP. An observation plane relayed it to Anchorage. Instantly a massive rescue operation was under...
...manpower for such a war. The CP thinks they will all be technicians, with "safe" jobs. We think some will be technicians, some foot soldiers. In any case, no draftees, whether technicians or infantrymen, will be safe. For people's war, revolutionary guerrilla war, is not like trench warfare. There is no defined front. The whole country, farmland and city, is the battlefield. All the local people are possible enemy fighters. Since there is no defined front, there is no safe rear. This is true for the U.S. army (all of its personnel) in Vietnam. It would certainly be true...
...over, goggle-eyed cops found they had confiscated an array of weaponry that would have enabled the original Minutemen of 1775 to rout the British at Lexington and conquer England as well. The trove included 115 rifles, five mortars, nine machine guns, 26 pistols, brass-knuckled trench knives, machetes, hunting knives, throwing knives, cleavers, two bazookas, three anti-tank grenade launchers, 50 camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, 30 walkie-talkies, ten cans of black powder, crossbows, and more than a million rounds of ammunition-plus arrows for the crossbows...
...advance so that the party could discover them, like so many Easter eggs. Lady Bird turned up several small vases. Imelda, wearing purple stretch pants and a printed purple top with all the brio that Emilio Pucci could have hoped for when he designed them, leaped into a trench and unearthed a burial vase...