Not far from home, the door to the carriage flew open, and when the driver dismounted to secure it the horses bolted.
Down the road a hundred meters or so, Six-Seven's vehicle commander and air guards had dismounted and were standing around in the ditch.
The odds on favourite Frozen Fire's jockey Johnny Murtagh dismounted to boos and heckles from punters who were unhappy with the slow early pace of the race.
Still under heavy enemy fire, he dismounted the vehicle on the fifth trip and moved on foot to locate and recover the bodies of his team members.
"The Russian team came and dismounted it, " explained Mr Chamussy.
While the ballistic protection of the Osprey Assault is the same as its predecessor, the Osprey, the MoD says the overall fit has been tailored to the needs of dismounted troops, particularly those in Afghanistan.
But it will face tough competition from BAE Systems, the only company that managed to be a key player in all of the originally conceived software-defined radios that would have been used by Army helicopters, ground vehicles and dismounted troops.
Instead of vast maneuver grounds and lots of instructors and equipment, soldiers can train with small but high-tech gear such as Dismounted Soldier Training System, or they can practice techniques, such as squad tactics or IED recognition, using a training game on a laptop or even smartphones.
Here, you'd like something powerful, with agile maneuver, a compact and robust size half-way between the foot soldier and his Humvee or truck, bringing support of heavy firepower, a level of armor, robotics and gear into the alleys - something that will team in numbers to move and cover dismounted soldiers and each other, just as our foot soldiers do for each other everyday.
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