Word: united
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drury and Burke have teamed up on the first penalty-kill unit, with understandably positive results. While the sophomore credits "Burkie's long reach" for limiting opponent's passing, the junior thought Drury's talent enabled them "to look for offense, even when we're a man down...
...came as something of a shock when he scrambled out of his hole in the ground. He was thin, pitiable, and quivering with the fear that his captors were going to shoot him on the spot. He knew what execution squads attached to his unit were doing to others who tried to give up. Why should he expect better from the enemy? When he realized he was going to be fed and cared for, he fell to his knees and kissed the hands of a U.S. Marine...
...with their first opportunity to see how Iraq's troops operated against American mobile tactics. The Iraqis performed badly, surrendering en masse when the Marines counterattacked. "They showed us they couldn't handle combined operations," says a senior Pentagon official. "They maneuvered but couldn't work effectively as a unit." Postbattle inspection disclosed that Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers were in terrible shape. As General Norman Schwarzkopf put it, Khafji "led us to believe that we were really going to kick this guy's tail...
...British soldiers are no strangers to desert warfare, of course: aided by the heroics of T.E. Lawrence -- the legendary Lawrence of Arabia -- they helped oust the Ottoman Turks from the Bedouin homeland in World War I and later defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Libyan desert. One tank unit that punched into Iraq last week was the 7th Armored Brigade, World War II's famous Desert Rats, who helped drive the Germans out of North Africa...
...Special Forces teams served with every Arab ground unit from battalion level up, acting as communicators with nearby English-speaking allies. They called in air strikes when necessary and warned off any threatening friendly fire. At least some Green Berets, it turned out, labored under a misnomer in this assignment: a few of their scouts arriving early in Kuwait City were spotted wearing Arab headgear...