Others, including Pirate Party co-chairman Gregory Engels, seem to prefer the idea of a low-Earth-orbit satellite that would be harder to launch but easier to keep airborne than a slowly-deflating balloon.
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Last week, troops from the 101st Airborne found a stash of chemicals, which was investigated as possible nerve agents, but the material turned out to be pesticides, Freakly said.
Lieutenant Colonel Greg Butts(ph), a battalion commander for the 101st Airborne Division, gives a driving tour.
Jackson worked with Ellis on Snakes on a Plane, an airborne action thriller that generated a cult following solely on the basis of its title.
Aircell is the world's leading provider of airborne communications and a single-source, turnkey provider of equipment, service, and technical support.
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Soldiers on an airborne Chinook with a bird's-eye view through the cargo sling door take advantage of a few moments "out of the war".
Tom Earnhardt, spokesman for the 82nd Airborne, in a written statement.
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Once the program has been completed, these helicopters will become the airborne equivalent of a socket wrench - capable of undertaking a number of previously impossible tasks.
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One is Cirrus, which makes simple little aeroplanes, aiming for the airborne equivalent of a modern car with the unique safety feature of a parachute for the entire aircraft.
Fortunately for the Army, the Reagan era had left its fleet of ground and airborne systems on a sound trajectory that would keep it reasonably well-equipped for decades to come.
The effective cashiering of the Airborne Laser fits a pattern of Obama defense procurement decisions with respect to advanced weaponry that is needed to provide our forces the qualitative edge upon which their mission success - and perhaps their lives and ours - may depend.
The car blew through a neighbor's yard, clipped a house and went airborne -- landing on the roof of a house.
Also 230, 000 doses of iodine have been distributed to evacuation centers as a first line of defense against airborne radioactive poisoning of the thyroid, a common concern in these situations.
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Perhaps fittingly, a fine airborne grit and surprisingly friendly gun-toting guards welcomed us to Armenia's northeastern border crossing with Georgia.
He was a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne in Baghdad and an operations officer with a reconstruction team in eastern Afghanistan.
The flights will be conducted by a DC-8 outfitted as a special airborne laboratory with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments.
You can see what Swanson has achieved every time there is a competition for a new airborne jammer or advanced sensor or precision munition or tactical network.
So, for example, having an operational Airborne Laser system and a ground based system give the sea based interceptor more timely and accurate information with which to do its job.
Yet, at the same time, he and President Obama are insisting that we can safely do without fourteen more long-range missile interceptors, a second airborne laser and various other enhancements to our relatively rudimentary anti-missile deployments.
The Airborne Laser program is a direct descendent of Ronald Reagan's visionary Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), with its exploration of various means of intercepting and destroying ballistic missiles - including lasers and other "directed energy" techniques.
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Inversely, if the sea based interceptor misses, you could still have a satellite, airborne, and ground based capability.
Adding to their discomfort, the English players will be sprayed with insect repellent before the game to combat swarms of airborne bugs, that are a feature of Donetsk in the summertime.
Defenders of Wildlife, the environmental group that led the effort to restrict airborne wolf hunting, released a poll Feb. 18 that shows 70 percent of Alaskan voters oppose any effort to repeal the ban.
When they add nothing, as lambic-makers do, the untreated wort becomes a refuge for airborne wild microflora, which now have space to grow and food that would otherwise be hogged by beer yeast to eat.
Major TOM BRYANT (Spokesman, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division): About a month ago, we started receiving intelligence from our Iraqi partners, reports that indicated a number of insurgents operating in this area northeast of Samarra, a very isolated, rural area, a lot of farms, a couple of small villages, but kind of a no man's land.
They supplied us with arrival data for the largest U.S.-based airlines for the last three holiday seasons, which we define as Nov. 20-Dec. 1 for Thanksgiving and Dec. 20-Jan. 6 for the winter holiday. (We examined only arrivals because departure delays can often be offset once a plane is airborne.) The U.S. Department of Transportation also tracks flight information for the holiday season, but FlightStats' list of airlines is more comprehensive.
Called the Future Combat System, it was a family of 18 ground and airborne vehicles, both manned and unmanned, that would be linked together by a wireless network of unprecedented capacity.
The book details the general's rise through the ranks, from his time as a West Point cadet to serving in the 82nd Airborne Corps and earning his Special Forces Green Beret, and then commanding a battalion of the 75th Ranger regiment.
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