Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most haunting tale belonged to Lance Corporal Robert Calhoun, who was stationed on the roof of the building when the truck came hurtling across the parking lot. "The explosion hit, and everything started falling," Calhoun recalled. "I thought, 'This is how I am going to die.' " Afterward, Calhoun said, he talked with the sentry who had manned the entry gate bypassed by the truck. Said Calhoun: "He says just as the man went by, he'll always remember, the guy was smiling...
...naval hospital at Agnano, near Naples, Lance Corporal Wayne Harris, 22, of Richmond, recounted how he was trapped for four hours. "First I was screaming a lot, but then I got worried about losing my air. Finally I just passed out and came to in the back of a truck." Ways of escape could be serendipitous as well as terrifying. Lance Corporal Adam Webb, 20, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, one of four guards on the roof, glimpsed the speeding truck as it disappeared below him. Webb felt the roof crack, then rode it down the four stories to the ground. Sliding...
Corporal James Hines, 22, of Forest City, Iowa, was not even in the building but was sleeping in a tent about 20 yds. away. "I heard somebody yell to stop the truck, then I saw a flash of light." Entangled in debris, with dirt raining down, Hines squirmed his legs free and began kicking wildly. Rescuers spotted the legs and pulled him out before he suffocated. Did he feel lucky? "I think the chaplain put that rather well," Hines said quietly. "He called us 'the chosen...
...Syrians knew the structure and layouts of the Marine and French headquarters that were destroyed because they had previously occupied both buildings. The Syrians, in addition, control the region of eastern Lebanon where the Shi'ite fanatics are based. Recalling that the truck that destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters carried some 2,000 Ibs. of high explosives, former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms notes, "You can't go down to the corner drugstore and buy a ton of TNT. Syrian assistance was probably a factor...
...main questions involve the ease with which the terrorists' Mercedes truck burst through Marine defenses last Sunday. At 6:22 a.m. it rolled through a Lebanese Army checkpoint that guarded access to the Marine base (1), and drove south into the airport's unguarded civilian parking lot. There it circled once or twice to pick up speed (2), then hurtled through a roll of barbed wire (3) and sped between two guard posts (4). Two sentries were on duty, and under the Marines' standing orders for duty within the compound, their M-16 rifles were unloaded...