• The Blue Force Tracker is a new digital tracking system, which shares information with hundreds of other commanders.

    CNN: Technology links 101st on the battlefield

  • So-called "blue force trackers" are also installed in vehicles and aircraft to emit a beacon that can be detected by other friendly troops.

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  • John Gentry, who played a staff member on the Blue force, the small attack satellites that both sides possessed are only barely understood.

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  • The Blue Force Tracker uses satellite signals from friendly forces in the field to map their positions -- reducing the risk of so-called "friendly fire" incidents.

    CNN: Technology links 101st on the battlefield

  • The Security Council has approved a resolution that would transform the African Union force into a blue-helmeted force that is larger and more robust.

    NPR: Bush Addresses U.N. on Peace in Middle East

  • The military calls it purple, purple meeting, you know, you've got green for Army, and khaki for the Marines and light blue for - the Air Force, and blue for the Navy.

    NPR: Joint Chiefs Shake-Up Leaves Questions

  • Lance L. Smith, who played the role of commander of a Blue military task force.

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  • And the biggest acts are the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds, the precision flying teams whose performances were abruptly canceled April 1, along with the Army skydiving team, military flyovers, demonstration flights and even static displays.

    WSJ: Dark clouds hang over air shows after budget cuts

  • On that fateful day that citizen militia leveled their spears and their thin blue line attacked a professional Persian force many times their number, slaughtering them to the last man on the legendary beach of Marathon.

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  • For a period of 20 years the existing Turkish customs tariff shall remain in force throughout the whole of the blue and red areas, as well as in areas (a) and (b), and no increase in the rates of duty or conversions from ad valorem to specific rates shall be made except by agreement between the two powers.

    BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement

  • The Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angels will cancel air show appearances.

    NPR: How Budget Cuts Could Affect You

  • Its face is a large disc, painted dark blue, with what looks like a red-hot explosive force emanating from the centre.

    ECONOMIST: Craftmade timepieces

  • This means having a nuclear deterrent, a deployable army division, a blue-water navy with two aircraft carriers, and an air force with fighters and deep-strike jets.

    ECONOMIST: Britain's armed forces

  • Oregon, one of the bluest of the blue states, saw voters overwhelmingly pass an initiative that permits property owners to force government to compensate them for losses resulting from environmental or zoning rules.

    FORBES: Don't Junk Property Rights

  • The force said the move from three orange and yellow stripes to yellow and blue checks would increase visibility.

    BBC: Met Police cars to have Battenburg livery

  • One of those corny black-and-white forties Air Force films with tearful goodbyes as Jimmy Stewart flies off into the wild blue yonder.

    NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

  • The famous 1997 chess player, Deep Blue, hailed as a triumphant achievement in artificial intelligence, beat its opponents using brute force.

    FORBES: The Blurring Line Between Science And Science Fiction

  • If, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, for example, which you and I remember because we were around, it had all gone wrong and the Russians had put a bolt from the blue on London and Mr MacMillan was killed, the decision whether to launch the B-force, the B-bombers with their hydrogen bombs, would have gone to the Chief of Bomber Command, an airman in uniform.

    BBC

  • Although Super Blue Stuff is sold in 365 small independent stores and through a 200-person direct-sales force, a majority of its sales come over the toll-free line McClung broadcasts on his infomercials.

    FORBES: Blue Streak

  • Rudolph, wearing a dark-gray suit and blue shirt with no tie, said his goal had been to confound and anger the federal government and to force the cancellation of the games -- or at least get people to stop attending them.

    CNN: Rudolph apologizes for Olympic bombing

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