And because Iraqi police are not just facing common criminals, they are getting live-fire training with the AK-47s.
Taiwan has held a live-fire military drill for the first time since 2008.
On Monday, South Korea pushed ahead with a new series of major live-fire exercises despite warnings from the North.
With 50 Koreans killed, including two civilians, North Korea then threatened war when South Korea conducted live-fire drills this past weekend.
Even as Annan was in Syria, al-Assad's regime reported it had conducted live-fire training exercises that simulated a defense against foreign attacks.
Senior commanders have all declared the live-fire training on Vieques to be essential to the combat effectiveness and safety of our troops.
Admiral Edney also warned about the decision effectively to halt the use of the live-fire training range on the island of Vieques near Puerto Rico.
South Korea had been holding live-fire drills in the area nearby.
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"In essence, the live-fire ranges are protection for the tortoises, " he said, looking at a patch of ground where bullets often rain down but rarely hit the burrowing reptile.
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These adverse impacts are all the more insupportable if, in fact, the majority of the people of Vieques actually do not want the Navy to end its utilization of the live-fire range.
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Later, when it looked like the North Koreans would retaliate for South Korea's live-fire military exercise, I thought of these girls and all the young people I had seen in North Korea.
Had that really been the top priority, we would have resumed live-fire training at Vieques suspended by President Clinton and made clear that the island would remain an active exercise area for the foreseeable future.
Gun shows that require only a brief in-person event with no live-fire training to qualify for a purchase permit, or that allow bulk purchase of weapons disrespect the care and dedication with which most gun owners teach themselves and their children.
It is striking, though, that in tape-recorded interviews I conducted with some of these leading opponents of live-fire exercises on and near Vieques, they adamantly opposed the idea of putting the question of whether those operations should continue to a vote by that island's residents.
In light of the need for U.S. naval and amphibious personnel to secure indispensable live-fire training at Vieques, the Center for Security Policy urges that President Clinton respect the strong opposition of his military advisors to the proposed termination of such operations on the island.
By applying well-honed techniques of propaganda, indoctrination and intimidation - and, importantly, by drawing support and resources from like-minded radicals and leftist-chic types from Puerto Rico and the mainland - the opponents of continued live-fire training on Vieques have largely succeeded in suppressing overt opposition to their cause.
For that matter, it is not unreasonable to anticipate that communities in the United States itself, tired of the inconvenience of being neighbors to live-fire ranges or simply lusting after the valuable real estate currently reserved for the military's use, will want equal treatment with the Puerto Ricans.
Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.
Now, he seems determined to complete his tenure by once again sacrificing national security in the hope of currying favor with another special interest, Hispanic-Americans, to whom he believes the permanent cessation by the U.S. armed forces of live-fire training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is an important priority.
This perception is being skillfully exploited by the island's governor, Pedro Rossello (who also happens to be a co-chairman of Al Gore's fund-raising efforts there), to elicit a commitment from Mr. Clinton to bar the resumption of live-fire training on Vieques and, within at most five years, to end all Navy activity on that island.
President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.
While there is no guarantee how such a referendum will come out, if it is genuinely free and fair, I believe a majority of the people of Vieques will see the right thing for their community and the country to be a resumption of live-fire training on their island by America's armed forces committed to conduct such training in a safe and responsible manner.
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Again Friday she said the United States and Europe find it extraordinary that Russia is refusing to live up to its cease-fire obligations.
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He denied criticising the government - often under fire for failing to live up to its promised "ethical" foreign policy - saying that he was merely offering a "progress report" on how his inquiry had been followed up.
Recently it for the first time published a schedule of exercises for the year, which will consist of 40 drills involving joint air-land combat and live fire operations on the open sea.
The good news is: The V-22 program did a nice job of live fire testing...being shot at.
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