The good news is: The V-22 program did a nice job of live fire testing...being shot at.
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When one of the soldiers reported that his life was threatened, Asayag ordered him to use live fire to protect himself.
Coming in red, gray and clear, the lantern gives the feeling of having a live fire in the room but without the fuss.
During October 2006, FCFRD, along with six other fire departments, used the Vienna property to conduct live fire training exercises, during which the house was destroyed.
Far to the west, police wounded dozens more with live fire in the port city of Hodeida, while large crowds marched in the central cities of Ibb and Taizz.
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.
Their realtor told them about the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) Acquired Structures Program, where a property owner allows FCFRD to conduct live fire training exercises on his or her property.
Other soldiers on similar live fire exercises were also probably unwittingly shot at, and Freshwater West beach, 1.6 miles (2.5km) north west of where the machine gun was placed, was also within the same potentially deadly area.
"While at least two policemen are among those killed, preliminary unconfirmed reports suggest that most of the casualties have been caused by live fire and excessive use of tear gas by the authorities, " a statement from Pillay's office said.
Still, few Tunisians expected the president to go, even when as many as 40, 000 people gathered on January 14th at the headquarters of the Interior Ministry on Tunis's stately Avenue Bourguiba, braving torrents of tear gas and live fire.
The army - which has stayed on the sidelines during other recent violence - moved in at one point to separate the two sides, but its troops began getting hit by live fire and becoming overwhelmed by police tear gas, Associated Press reports.
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.
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