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  • Directly beneath the fuselage was a LANTIRN (low-altitude navigation and targeting infrared for night) pod; all the other ordnance stations save one were occupied by fuel tanks.†   (source)
  • Matt thought the bunker might have been constructed to accommodate spotters during exercises, a couple of ordnance guys helicoptered in to check firing accuracy, retrieve tow targets and possibly mark the location of unexploded rockets and bombs.†   (source)
  • Dad had taken a heavy ordnance load right in the face; a near contact wound.†   (source)
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal.†   (source)
  • Now the crater briefly came alive with ordnance.†   (source)
  • Milo's planes separated in a well co-ordinated attack and bombed the fuel stocks and the ordnance dump, the repair hangars and the B-25 bombers resting on the lollipop-shaped hardstands at the field.†   (source)
  • A young, powerful man in uniform, driving a Jeep, stepping out, and-through the mists of Jason's inner screen-yelling at what was left of an assault team that had returned from interdicting an ordnance route paralleling the Ho Chi Minh Trail.†   (source)
  • Already Adams was serving on twenty-three committees, and that same week was assigned to three more, including an all-important new Continental Board of War and Ordnance, of which he was to be the president.†   (source)
  • He had not asked to be born, and if he was evil, they had made him so by failing to teach him any human values, by treating him as mere ordnance, by rewarding him for murder.†   (source)
  • Now all of the members of the unit are handpicked from other SEAL teams and Explosive Ordnance Disposal units.†   (source)
  • It had been a long time since I had heard the Bear in top form, using his spectacular voice like a weapon requisitioned from ordnance.†   (source)
  • They haven't passed out ordnance.†   (source)
  • But when I was a corporal, I was assistant to the Ordnance & Armor sergeant.†   (source)
  • Three men crawled under the ordnance truck; another flung himself into a garbage pit.   (source)
  • Herman Scearce, Deasy's radioman, leapt into a trench next to an ordnance truck, joining five of his crew-mates.   (source)
  • Martin Cohn, an ordnance officer on Oahu, was once in a radar shack as a lost plane, unequipped with radar, tried to find the island.   (source)
  • Men stood in a solemn circle around a couple of seats and twisted metal, all that was left of the ordnance truck.   (source)
  • Thick ribbons of smoke stripe the valley; occasional flares of ordnance fly like shuttlecocks.†   (source)
  • Our mission is twofold: Destroy or capture all enemy ordnance and terminate all infested personnel.†   (source)
  • There had never been a lull in the amount of ordnance the enemy was piling down on us.†   (source)
  • God only knew the size of whatever arms cache they were drawing ordnance from.†   (source)
  • Another blast as the ordnance in the magazine continues to detonate.†   (source)
  • The flares are over at Motor Vehicles and grenades aren't part of normal ordnance.†   (source)
  • And the guys on the line who load the ordnance and juice the engines.†   (source)
  • They train us to terminate Teds and then load down toddlers with alien ordnance?†   (source)
  • The old man's eyes had been described as hollow-point ordnance with max loads.†   (source)
  • The Japanese ordnance showed no respect for heroes.†   (source)
  • Want to look over the ordnance and pick out what you need?†   (source)
  • Working as an ordnance & armor mech about ten hours a day was not all that I did.†   (source)
  • I rigged up my special effects, checked out the terrain, measured distances, collected the ordnance and equipment we'd need.†   (source)
  • The three splintered beams in the ceiling hold up God knows what load: ten tons of carbonized hotel and the corpses of eight anti-aircraft men and untold unexploded ordnance.†   (source)
  • There are flame-throwing booby traps, a net of pillboxes with periscopic sights; they have stockpiled enough ordnance to spray shells into the sea all day, every day, for a year.†   (source)
  • They taught us the basics of airborne ordnance, five-hundred-pound bombs and missiles, what they can hit and what they can't.†   (source)
  • After till, here were my own guys, swooping over these tribesmen from the Middle Ages, hitting them hard with high-tech modern ordnance.†   (source)
  • First-class ordnance, real sweet stuff.†   (source)
  • When the Satos and their unfortunate brethren were moved out in 1943, the track became Camp Santa Anita, a massive ordnance storage site and open-air Army barracks for thousands of soldiers.†   (source)
  • We should have our ordnance now.†   (source)
  • Too lazy to rig up the training ordnance each morning, the supervising NCO simply hollered Boomo when the urge struck him.†   (source)
  • I watched as a small breach team, led by one of Delta's Explosive Ordnance Disposal guys, ran into the first floor to set a thermobaric charge.†   (source)
  • Most of the Saratoga's air group was visible on the concrete pads at Loring, sitting alongside the B-52s, A-6E Intruders, and F-18 Hornets with their ordnance carts a few feet away.†   (source)
  • Then, three days after Nate and Mike died, Louis Souffront, a twenty-five-year-old explosive ordnance disposal technician attached to Adam's squadron, was also killed in Iraq.†   (source)
  • They were responsible for ordnance and fortifications, for appointing and promoting officers, for recruitment of enlisted men and raising rifle companies, for pay, provisions, and for somehow resolving the constant demand for flints, saltpeter and gunpowder, horses, wagons, tents, shoes, soap, and blankets.†   (source)
  • And many of the components on the list to make ordnance utilizing depleted uranium were ones that the government watched very carefully.†   (source)
  • He'd been a proud part of a bomb wing that was dropping millions of tons of ordnance off the racks and out of the bays.†   (source)
  • Ordnance.†   (source)
  • The undersides of the wings were studded with many hard points so ordnance could be carried, and the fuselage was built around the aircraft's primary weapon, the GAU-8 thirty-millimeter rotary cannon designed specifically to smash Soviet tanks.†   (source)
  • Their ordnance was impressive, as were their defenses, and the town is half circled by a river in a walled channel, which makes a defender's job very easy.†   (source)
  • And it wouldn't be long at all before the massive aircraft lumbered down the runway again, fatted with ordnance, every rivet straining at the takeoff, up, out, over—a mortal power in the sky.†   (source)
  • Thus he counts his mil dots, gauges angles, distance, ordnance drop, ambient temp, and wind among other factors and dials in the necessary adjustments on his scope.†   (source)
  • Not the boom part of the ordnance.†   (source)
  • Heavy ordnance.†   (source)
  • I moved sideways while slapping that monstrous piece of ordnance the other way, chopped his wrist, and caught it.†   (source)
  • Then tell him that you are going to put in all your time on ordnance and armor — and that you want him to handle everything else.†   (source)
  • Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.†   (source)
  • But later, he wrote: "I have talked with Mr. French, who is, as you know, the Chief of Ordnance, and he says that they have only old muskets for troops, and those but flintlocks.†   (source)
  • The train bearing the wounded had already come in and the litter bearers were working swiftly in the hot sun, transferring wounded into ambulances and covered ordnance wagons.†   (source)
  • Where vacant lots had been a year before, there were now factories turning out harness, saddles and shoes, ordnance-supply plants making rifles and cannon, rolling mills and foundries producing iron rails and freight cars to replace those destroyed by the Yankees, and a variety of industries manufacturing spurs, bridle bits, buckles, tents, buttons, pistols and swords.†   (source)
  • BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.†   (source)
  • The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work.†   (source)
  • After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.†   (source)
  • It was all fitted with lockers from top to bottom, so as to stow away the officers' belongings and a part of the ship's stores; there was a second store-room underneath, which you entered by a hatchway in the middle of the deck; indeed, all the best of the meat and drink and the whole of the powder were collected in this place; and all the firearms, except the two pieces of brass ordnance, were set in a rack in the aftermost wall of the round-house.†   (source)
  • Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre.†   (source)
  • He had mounted Doramin's old ordnance on the top of that hill; two rusty iron 7-pounders, a lot of small brass cannon—currency cannon.†   (source)
  • I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place.†   (source)
  • A white church could be seen through the mist, and here and there the roofs of huts in Borodino as well as dense masses of soldiers, or green ammunition chests and ordnance.†   (source)
  • The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance.†   (source)
  • A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of the street behind the piece of ordnance.†   (source)
  • This was a second piece of ordnance.†   (source)
  • From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.†   (source)
  • The attractive character of certain localities in Ireland and abroad, as represented in general geographical maps of polychrome design or in special ordnance survey charts by employment of scale numerals and hachures.†   (source)
  • ] [Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after the which a peal of ordnance is shot off.†   (source)
  • Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?†   (source)
  • [A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within.†   (source)
  • Set me the stoups of wine upon that table,— If Hamlet give the first or second hit, Or quit in answer of the third exchange, Let all the battlements their ordnance fire; The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.†   (source)
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