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Last September President Bush vowed to enlist the armed forces in preventing illegal drugs from being smuggled into the U.S. Recently, he approved plans to station a naval task force off the Caribbean coast of Colombia to monitor sea and air traffic. The task force might consist of an aircraft carrier, up to eight support vessels, and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft equipped with sophisticated radar that can track hundreds of planes at a time. Rather than shoot down suspected smugglers, the force would observe planes flying in or out of Colombia and notify Colombian authorities or the U.S. Coast Guard...
This thesis takes as its task the troublesome tiring turmoil of infant mortality...
...TASK FORCE RED. Assigned targets on both sides of the capital, its rangers had the night's most difficult chores. As Pathfinder planes dropped flares to illuminate the drop areas, the Rangers jumped from planes that flew as low as 500 ft., well within the range of small-arms fire. The Rangers on the west landed near Rio Hato, assaulted the barracks of the 6th and 7th P.D.F. companies and took 250 prisoners. The bulk of P.D.F. soldiers had slipped away. To the east, other commandos dropped in large numbers on Torrijos International Airport...
...TASK FORCE PACIFIC. Once Task Force Red had secured the airport, two waves of 82nd Airborne paratroopers jumped from 20 C-141 transports. They fanned out to assist Rangers and Special Forces units that had blocked the Pacora River bridge to prevent Battalion 2000 from reaching Panama City and to turn back any attack from P.D.F. infantry and cavalry units based at Fort Cimarron. When the Americans reached the fort, the crack battalion was no longer there...
...TASK FORCE BAYONET. This mechanized battalion and light tank force attacked the P.D.F. headquarters with a vengeance, igniting a huge fire that gutted the main Comandancia building. When the bombardment was over, its troops searched the building room by room -- and found no one. By 8 a.m. Wednesday, Powell felt confident enough to proclaim that "for the most part, organized resistance has ended...