Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
best enemy hear information level pilots saying trying
But I am very much aware, as are all the pilots and all the operators, that the enemy is trying to its level best to hear what we're saying to glean information from it.
agreed attack troops
The KLA has already agreed not to attack the Serb troops as they're leaving.
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The FEST Team, which stands for Foreign Emergency Security Team, has also arrived. And that involves State Department personnel, FBI and Justice Department personnel, and others, about 50 people,
bigger numbers terms
I just don't think we know at this stage, but we have to think in terms of big numbers -- bigger than 15,000 certainly.
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I hope that CNN is ... energetic in making this retraction and clarification so that people do understand what the true facts of this mission were.
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I'm not sure that the fact that the launch facility is primitive makes the missiles any less threatening.
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If there are plans for an evacuation, they would be run by Australia, which of course is the nearest country and has taken on responsibility for conducting any sort of an evacuation that's necessary, ... But we hope it won't be necessary.
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they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.
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These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which we're actually flying over or near Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
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This is a very high-priority program. We are working very hard ... to get the president the information he needs from the technical side to make a decision sometime this summer.
adds army balkans bosnia deployed people percentage relatively small
If you look at our deployments today, under 5,000 people in Bosnia and about 5,000 people, under 6,000 people in Kosovo, it adds up to about 11,000 people, 10,000 or 11,000 people deployed in the Balkans out of an Army that's, what, 480,000, 485,000 people. It's a relatively small percentage
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In the last four years, the (U.S.) military has fought one of the most successful air wars in history
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He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.
increases life quality
I'd say it's a stronger, more supple military. I think that there have been important improvements in technology, important increases in investment, important improvements in quality of life