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  • She sent out seekers-deadly creatures with vulture bodies and fly heads-for aerial reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • We've been over and over this, I mean, what's the point of all these reconnaissance trips if you aren't even bothering to tell us — " "Blimey, Hermione, I forget one little thing — " "You do realize, don't you, that there's probably no more dan-gerous place in the whole world for us to be right now than the Ministry of — " "I think we should do it tomorrow," said Harry.†   (source)
  • Though the research done on HeLa cells in space was legitimate and useful, we now know that it was part of a cover-up for a reconnaissance project that involved photographing the Soviet Union from space.†   (source)
  • Do a thorough reconnaissance and report in.†   (source)
  • We did a lot of land navigation, built hide sights, and did SR ("surveillance and reconnaissance") along the border.†   (source)
  • Reconnaissance squads from the SDF battalion moved northward carefully, cautious of the anti-entropic tides around the Time Tombs and wary of any booby traps left behind by the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Our primary mission was special surveillance and reconnaissance, photographing hot spots and danger areas using unbelievable photographic lenses.†   (source)
  • They had participated in secret conversations, received certain assurances, and gone so far as to make reconnaissance forays to outlying parts of the city.†   (source)
  • He told us that Captain Stewart had volunteered us to replace a reconnaissance team that had been wiped out.†   (source)
  • But this reconnaissance leads nowhere.†   (source)
  • Our chance for a subtle reconnaissance mission had just been blown.†   (source)
  • The pilot of a daily reconnaissance plane, said an Ensign Clawson, had noticed something he'd never noticed before: the Japanese strawberry farms on San Piedro Island were planted in rows pointing straight toward the radio transmitter at the end of Agate Point.†   (source)
  • Saphira had landed in the hollow where they were now, and they had slept through most of the past day before beginning their reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • RECONNAISSANCE†   (source)
  • Then he remembered how Bigwig, after his reconnaissance on the previous day, had spoken of the little white sticks in the grass.†   (source)
  • This isn't a race, it's a reconnaissance mission.†   (source)
  • By this time, of course, the imperialists will know who and what we are, from their slinking spies and cowardly reconnaissance aircraft.†   (source)
  • Now we focused on hydrographic reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • Instead, Adam was given a job working with intelligence as part of a reconnaissance-focused task unit.†   (source)
  • By the time they invaded Iraq, their regiment had been combined with elements from other units, including the Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Firing Battalions of the Eleventh Marines, the Second and Third Assault Amphibian Battalions, Company B from the First Combat Engineer Battalion, and the Combat Service Support Battalion 115.†   (source)
  • So it was with great alarm that on July 4, 1942, American reconnaissance discovered a Japanese construction brigade building an airstrip on Guadalcanal, a jungle island near the southern tip of the Solomon Islands chain, to the northeast of Australia.†   (source)
  • It was an intermediate-range reconnaissance jet aircraft fully equipped for day or night intelligence nights.†   (source)
  • He made a personal reconnaissance of the approaches to Dorchester, even to the heights apparently, accompanied by several of his officers, including Henry Knox.†   (source)
  • But for thirty dollars' worth of reconnaissance and the libidinous observations of a horny fourteen-year-old, their strategy would have been effective.†   (source)
  • With me were two snipers from our reconnaissance unit, called RECCE, plus the EOD tech.†   (source)
  • A few minutes' reconnaissance informed us that this was the Ocala National Forest.†   (source)
  • Mark, in particular, displayed extraordinary—heretofore unperceived—skills in the craft of reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • Thanks to his military training, Powell knows the value of reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • Initial utilization tour in Force Reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • I think we lost some time ago, because the last five Sputniks have been reconnaissance satellites.†   (source)
  • If you are lucky enough to have a major breakthrough in your area, your reconnaissance will be patched through all the way to the top.†   (source)
  • That means reconnaissance from you.†   (source)
  • This is where we got down to all the serious techniques of reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • We came ashore in two Zodiacs, built a hide, and did some reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • You simply cannot do effective reconnaissance if you can't get into good position.†   (source)
  • A quick reconnaissance revealed no alarm system I could see.†   (source)
  • The reconnaissance is good news for Booth.†   (source)
  • We prepared to go, but the reconnaissance bird lost him, and we didn't launch.†   (source)
  • After lunch a package arrived by messenger from the National Reconnaissance Office.†   (source)
  • They were processed by the National Reconnaissance Office.†   (source)
  • I'll start the reconnaissance through him.†   (source)
  • By then, the reconnaissance jet that had shadowed Task Group 6.†   (source)
  • Because the Kingdom of Nepal kept its borders closed until 1949, the initial Everest reconnaissance, and the next eight expeditions to follow, were forced to approach the mountain from the north, through Tibet, and never passed anywhere near the Khumbu.†   (source)
  • All light stuff" Sergeant Simpson said that, because of Gearhart's training, they were using our squad on long-range reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • As it happens, there is no such thing as a Long Range Mountain Reconnaissance Unit in the British army) and Woodall Sandhurst.†   (source)
  • Someone asked, "Reconnaissance and monitoring of Judgment Day have always been the responsibility of NATO military intelligence and the CIA.†   (source)
  • During my reconnaissance, I'd noticed an obvious unclimbed line to the left of the Beckey route, a patchy network of ice angling across the southeast face, that struck me as a relatively easy way to achieve the summit.†   (source)
  • More than thirty years ago, my reconnaissance squad managed to sneak dozens of kilometers behind Vietnamese lines and capture a hydroelectric station under heavy guard.†   (source)
  • The KH-9 was without a doubt an important monitoring target, as it presented a rare opportunity to gather more information about American satellite reconnaissance systems.†   (source)
  • He guarded his flock assiduously, researched every mission with complete thoroughness, gathered the intel, checked the maps, charts, photographs, all reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Tim Turner Petty Officers James Suh and Matthew Axelson after a four-day reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan in 2005.†   (source)
  • In future wars, Red Coast can effectively strike at the enemy's communication and reconnaissance satellites, like the KH-8 spy satellites on which the American Imperialists rely, as well as the KH-9, which are about to be launched.†   (source)
  • The other kind was a straight surveillance and reconnaissance mission (SR), where we were tasked with observing and photographing a village, looking for our target.†   (source)
  • Back home it was now some time in the small hours of Wednesday morning, June 29, and several hours previously a television station had announced that a four-man SEAL reconnaissance team that was on a mission in the northeast mountains of Afghanistan had all been killed in action.†   (source)
  • He tried to convince Franklin and Vergennes of the need for a reconnaissance of the Low Countries, but without success.†   (source)
  • In describing the events of February 23, the report covered the reconnaissance patrol of the early morning.†   (source)
  • The azaleas were perfect cover for my reconnaissance; they were trimmed precisely to my height and I could crouch unseen, moving from window to window, at my own slow pace.†   (source)
  • Though not well liked on the base, he was nonetheless the acknowledged master of reconnaissance interpretation.†   (source)
  • Gene drove down to Virginia and arrived at the monkey house in midmorning for a reconnaissance, to get a sense of the layout of the building and to figure out where to put the air lock and gray zone, and how to insert the team into the building.†   (source)
  • Reconnaissance is familiar to all rabbits—indeed, it is second nature—but the idea of making use of a bird, and one so strange and savage, convinced them that Hazel, if he could really do it, must be as clever as El-ahrairah himself.†   (source)
  • The reconnaissance and sniper teams studied satellite images, trying to find landing zones within four to six kilometers of the target, but none of the routes seemed to work.†   (source)
  • "It's going to be a long one tonight," replied Tom Ratzlaff, the senior sniper and reconnaissance team leader.†   (source)
  • A local resident's vehicle, to be used for drive-by reconnaissance missions in Mosul, needed to have installed a discreet surveillance system with its own power source.†   (source)
  • Casanova and I dressed up like locals and ran a vehicular route reconnaissance in a Jeep Cherokee that had been beaten more than once with an ugly stick.†   (source)
  • It was 2003 and we were a week into our reconnaissance training block when I got orders to report back to San Diego to start the three-day screening process.†   (source)
  • The general was studying reconnaissance photographs that showed that every square inch of the island had been bombed.†   (source)
  • One of the first rules of air reconnaissance was "Ignore the scenery"; analysis and evaluation were not the job of the pilot.†   (source)
  • After our reconnaissance, we drove a Humvee from the compound through a secret hole in the back fence to a trailer where the CIA gave us a human intelligence (HUMINT) brief.†   (source)
  • For the first few weeks in Iraq, while Adam's teammates were conducting special reconnaissance, sniper missions, and raids—capturing or killing insurgents, clearing houses, and gathering intelligence—Adam tirelessly performed a myriad of support tasks while based in the northern city of Mosul.†   (source)
  • The massive satellite, called a RORSAT, for radar ocean reconnaissance satellite, was specifically designed for maritime surveillance.†   (source)
  • About three-quarters of the way to the objective, after the assault force's route merged into a man-made trail, a dog began to bark ferociously from a small enclave of rock-and-timber huts that air reconnaissance had missed.†   (source)
  • For winter warfare training, I enjoyed over a month of fun with the Swedish Coastal Rangers (Kustjagarna), who perform long-range reconnaissance, sabotage, and assaults against enemies invading Sweden's coast.†   (source)
  • When the reconnaissance satellite located its higher flying cousin, a laser side-link transmitted the contents of the Albatross' tape bank.†   (source)
  • CCTs were the air force's special operations pathfinders who could parachute into an area and provide reconnaissance, air traffic control, fire support, and command, control, and communications on the ground—particularly helpful to us in calling down death from above.†   (source)
  • The Team TEN SEALS had been sent out on June 28 as part of a Quick Reaction Force to aid a four-man SEAL reconnaissance team that was outnumbered, out-positioned, and pinned down by anticoalition insurgents in a fierce firefight in the mountainous Kunar Province.†   (source)
  • After harassing the Sentry the previous day, Ivan had decided to close with the Kennedy force, no doubt guided in with data from a reconnaissance satellite.†   (source)
  • Since October, Green Berets had been on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as some SEAL teams conducting reconnaissance missions in advance of two raids by Special Operations Forces: an airfield seizure in southern Afghanistan and a raid on one of Mullah Omar's compounds.†   (source)
  • The captain claimed to have had a fire aboard, but photographs taken by naval reconnaissance aircraft—ours and Japanese—did not show smoke or fire-damaged debris being jettisoned from the submarine.†   (source)
  • Adding to that confidence, there was no smell from cooking fires and the "eyes in the sky"—intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)—reported thermal images of people sleeping throughout the valley and almost no movement.†   (source)
  • A note on the lectern said the slide projector in the middle of the table was already loaded and focused, and gave the order of the slides, which had been delivered from the National Reconnaissance Office.†   (source)
  • On a reconnaissance foray into the bowels of the great closet that harbored the jetsam and flotsam washed into the schoolroom over the years, I unearthed a brand-new automatic movie projector.†   (source)
  • You'll be working with me all along… doing reconnaissance and intelligence, but I need one piece of information first.†   (source)
  • There was no doubt the bogy knew he was on its tail, for reconnaissance aircraft would be well equipped with radar.†   (source)
  • If the hostile reconnaissance jet came in from a base in Egypt or Albania, he would be in a position to intercept.†   (source)
  • One, from the Air attache in Ankara, reported Russian aerial reconnaissance over the Azerbaijan frontier.†   (source)
  • A great number of people, even badly burned ones, crawled into bushes and stayed there until the hum, evidently of a reconnaissance or weather run, died away.†   (source)
  • I sent him on a reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • You hit on Andover as quite a likely spot and your preliminary reconnaissance there led you to select Mrs. Ascher's shop as the scene of the first crime.†   (source)
  • I was making what I should have called a reconnaissance if I had ever returned to my superior officers to tell the tale, but in plain truth I had lost my way in the mountains, and of my men only seven out of over a hundred survived the rigors of the climate.†   (source)
  • Now, we must remember that even five divisions, however lightly equipped, would require 200 to 250 ships, and with modern air reconnaissance and photography it would not be easy to collect such an armada, marshal it, and conduct it across the sea without any powerful naval forces to escort it; and there would be very great possibilities, to put it mildly, that this armada would be intercepted long before it reached the coast, and all the men drowned in the sea or, at the worst blown to…†   (source)
  • The Japanese radar operators, detecting only three planes, supposed that they comprised a reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • The object appeared to be a reconnoissance.†   (source)
  • Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance.†   (source)
  • He it was who used the glass, in making the reconnoissances in which the two were engaged.†   (source)
  • As soon as night fell, about six o'clock, they decided to make a reconnaissance around the pagoda.†   (source)
  • Then, what say you to a voyage of reconnaissance in the village whilst I wait here against his coming!†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp had been quietly expecting such a raid from the flatlands for a long time now, had even correctly guessed the person who would actually be entrusted with the task of reconnaissance—but that had not been hard to do.†   (source)
  • …in chief himself needs sleep and refreshment to maintain his energy and a respectable general who has been overlooked in the distribution of rewards comes to complain, and the inhabitants of the district pray to be defended, and an officer sent to inspect the locality comes in and gives a report quite contrary to what was said by the officer previously sent; and a spy, a prisoner, and a general who has been on reconnaissance, all describe the position of the enemy's army differently.†   (source)
  • Fritz and I at once prepared to make a reconnaissance; we armed ourselves with our guns, pistols and cutlasses, took a spy-glass, seated ourselves in the cajack and, with a parting entreaty from my wife to be cautious, paddled out of the bay and round the high cliffs on our left.†   (source)
  • Calling one of his lieutenants, he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance, when gunshots were heard.†   (source)
  • 3 The sun and stars that float in the open air, The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand, I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness, And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance, And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us, And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.†   (source)
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