Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since the arrival of American advisers in 1980, close to 10,000 Salvadoran soldiers have been taught combat basics. The reality is less encouraging. At the regional army headquarters in San Vicente, for example, a dozen U.S. advisers must turn recruits into jungle fighters in five weeks. Courses cover marksmanship, explosives and ambush prevention, but the lessons are not easily understood. More than half the enlistees are illiterate, and many of the others can barely write their names...
...attempts to force them into communal farming; as a result, many of the 1,500 F.D.N. troops operating in the north-central section of Nicaragua are peasant farmers. Once recruited, they undergo a five-week CIA training course in Honduras. The instruction emphasizes ambush maneuvers but also includes marksmanship, compass work and radio operations. The campesinos return to Nicaragua in groups of 40 (including both men and women) under the supervision of five former Guardsmen...
...elegant, military-looking olive drab, with high boots, for which I am unlikely to have any future use. Brezhnev, similarly attired, collected me in a jeep. I hate the killing of animals for sport, but Brezhnev said some wild boars had already been earmarked for me. Given my marksmanship, I replied, the cause of death would have to be heart failure. Still, I would be willing to go along as an adviser...
...capsulized version of the first 40 minutes, Harvard bounced to a quick lead on the extraordinary long-distance marksmanship of forward Joe Carrabino. The 6-ft., 8-in. sophomore had paced the Crimson to an early 12-point advantage over the heavily favored Longhorns...
...ground that Islambuli did not feel that he had committed a crime. Charged with murder are Islambuli and three other defendants alleged to have been on the hit team: an engineer, the owner of a bookshop, and a reserve army sergeant who had won an award for marksmanship. Also on trial were 20 other Muslim fundamentalists, who are charged in a 754-page indictment with offenses that include conspiracy and providing weapons for the plotters...