Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.
Cruise missiles and jet fighters work against fixed targets, concentrations of forces or heavy weapons on open ground.
John Hume, the party's leading figure, once suggested that rather than insisting on decommissioning, the parties should just be content to let weapons rust unused in the ground.
Unfortunately, the Army has in the past often proven a less than reliable sponsoring service for weapons systems that break new technological ground.
Mr Rumsfeld insists the reason for a smaller force is that since the last Gulf war there has been a huge change in the way ground campaigns can be fought, especially with weapons getting smarter and more precise.
Directed energy weapons such as lasers and particle beams, (either ground-based or space-based, having sufficient power to damage satellites or their sensors).
According to his account, the teen, who didn't have any weapons on him, punched him, forced him to the ground, and slammed his head on the concrete.
One man who testified, Nicholas Peart, described an encounter in which officers swarmed, pointed their weapons and told him and two relatives to get down on the ground late on the night of his 18th birthday.
Russia also stressed that UN weapons inspectors should go to Iraq and look for hard evidence on the ground.
If operated from a single site (perhaps in Grand Forks, North Dakota) in conjunction with one or more new, ground-based radars and other, existing early-warning radar systems, these weapons would have the ability to provide some protection to most of the continental United States.
Add to that the declining availability of funding for new weapons as Washington heads into a prolonged season of budget cutting, and the Ground Combat Vehicle looks doomed before it even gets going.
In the wake of the recent revelation of a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report about the discovery in Iraq of some 500 chemical weapons, the House Armed Services Committee took testimony from military intelligence and civilian experts about the threat posed - both before and after Iraq's liberation - by these and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) amassed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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But the major modification is that the weapons officer, sitting behind, is concentrating on lining up the next target on the ground.
This is precisely why it is important to get the United Nations investigation team onto the ground in Syria and make sure it can conduct an independent and professional investigation in the areas where chemical weapons have allegedly been used.
"We have been very clear to the Assad regime -- but also to other players on the ground -- that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized, " he told reporters.
As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).
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